{"id":249700,"date":"2026-11-10T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-dr-layli-maparyans-vision-for-academic-employment-reform\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:30:51","slug":"liberia-dr-layli-maparyans-vision-for-academic-employment-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-dr-layli-maparyans-vision-for-academic-employment-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Dr. Layli Maparyan&#8217;s Vision for Academic Employment Reform &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">Again, I find myself reflecting on the wisdom, foresight and institutional vision of the President of the University of Liberia, Dr. Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. Her recent call for the establishment of a dedicated national employment law for Liberia&#8217;s higher education sector is not just an administrative recommendation. It is a major labor policy intervention designed to tackle a long-standing structural weakness in the country&#8217;s employment regulatory framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">I am professionally trained in labor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611100606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, I find myself reflecting on the wisdom, foresight and institutional vision of the President of the University of Liberia, Dr. Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. Her recent call for the establishment of a dedicated national employment law for Liberia&#8217;s higher education sector is not just an administrative recommendation. It is a major labor policy intervention designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[14155,258,256,7528,55807,4712,1107,55808,257,6099,254,5094],"class_list":["post-249700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-academic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-employment","tag-layli","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-maparyans","tag-news","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vision"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}