Special Report
Getting Ahead April 2010

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Tough tertiary stuff

This country has an amazing higher education system -- there is nothing like it in the rest of Africa.

It's only 'the start of a conversation'

This is a “historic session” as delegates waited for the formal declaration at the end of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's two-day summit.

Wanted: caring universities

Transformation is a long-term process, but we need to bite the bullet now, Nzimande tells delegates. Janis Kinnear reports.

Declaration: embracing the opportunity

Mary Metcalfe, director general of higher education and training, read out this declaration at the end of last week's two-day summit in Cape Town.