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Open to learning

The Open University of Tanzania is a public university that was established by an Act of Parliament in 1992 and became operational in 1993. The university offers degree and non-degree programmes through a distance and open-learning system. The university's headquarters are in Dar es Salaam, the financial capital of Tanzania.

What's your niche?

Universities of technology need to differentiate themselves from traditional universities, write Primarashni Gower and Cornia Pretorius.

An uneasy union

We must face up to the difference between study for study's sake and the vocational and practical training that South Africa desperately needs.

Time to stop rating researchers

South Africa's rating system for researchers belongs to the past, but its administrators are reluctant to change, says Michael Cherry.

New qualifications framework in 2009

Minimum admission requirements for programmes to be set

Politics of publishing

Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.

FET needs research

South Africa's further education and training college sector is growing but it will also take time to mature.

A niche opportunity

Universities of technology have the benefit of producing students who are 'work-ready' and have a tertiary education

Broadening the exchange of knowledge

In this age of accountability the need to have one's name "in print" and on screen is institutionally reinforced at every turn in academic life.

Shy tycoon funds MBA for the poor

Private New Zealander puts $50m into a new business school aiming to produce a generation of business leaders in poverty-stricken parts of the globe.