It looks like a contraption out of a science fiction movie, with its heavy-duty hammer and chains, and it is used for destruction -- of the best kind.

The University of the Free State (UFS) has handed a private company a R4-million contract to help integrate its hostels.

Heads of universities and their senior staff will converge in Tripoli, Libya, later this month to discuss issues under the theme, "The African Brain Drain -- Managing the Drain: Working with the Diaspora". This is the biennial conference of rectors, vice-chancellors and presidents of African universities of the Association of African Universities.

Mmamosadi Monareng, Thamsanqa Makhathini and Colin van Tooren are category winners in the annual Aggrey Klaaste Mathematics, Science and Technology Educator of the Year Awards. Their hard work and dedication has won them each 20 computers for the schools they serve.

Primarashni Gower speaks to Graeme Bloch, author of The Toxic Mix: What is Wrong with SA's Schools and How to Fix It.

It looks like a contraption out of a science fiction movie, with its heavy-duty hammer and chains, and it is used for destruction -- of the best kind.

The University of the Free State (UFS) has handed a private company a R4-million contract to help integrate its hostels.

Heads of universities and their senior staff will converge in Tripoli, Libya, later this month to discuss issues under the theme, "The African Brain Drain -- Managing the Drain: Working with the Diaspora". This is the biennial conference of rectors, vice-chancellors and presidents of African universities of the Association of African Universities.