Wits embroiled in land dispute

University’s suburban development plans for Frankenwald betray its deed terms, activists say

What are we doing to ourselves?

The research-subsidy formula could be undermining academic quality.

Academics need to shout louder if they are to survive

A strict focus on numbers and vocational training is at odds with the findings of research about the value of academic activity.

Academia’s Lilliputian projectors

Scholars may not be among the truly exploited, but they are undervalued, writes Chris Thurman

Winds of change bring shiver of fear

Mending broken lines

It was no ordinary meeting between faculty dean and undergraduate student at the University of Pretoria, recalls Jonathan Jansen.

Dialogue with the Ivory tower

The first scholarly journal, it is believed, was the Journal des Scavans (in modern French, savants: "those who know" or, persons of learning.

Cool welcome for Iraq's returning academics

Iraqi academics who fled abroad from violence and oppression are trickling back home -- but they are finding jobs few and the welcome far from warm.

A crush at UKZN’s exits

Some of those who left cite irreconcilable differences with university management over academic freedom and other issues.

Aus fire hits academics

University staff saw their houses and all their possessions destroyed in minutes during the worst natural disaster Australia has experienced.

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