Officials from the World Bank were in Dakar this month to set out a vision for Senegal’s higher-education sector and to prepare for the launch of a new development strategy. Speaking on global trends in higher education, Jamil Salmi, the bank’s coordinator of higher education, said ICTs would play a predominant part in transmission of knowledge: “The university of ‘bricks’ will be replaced by the university of ‘clicks.’ But the ‘brick’ university can also be a ‘click’ university.” Source: University World News