'Smart drugs' rife at universities
- 22 Mar 2013 00:00 - Amy Green
- Students are abusing schedule six pills ahead of exams – with the help of their doctors.
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Cut off from the real world
- 04 Aug 2012 22:23 - Fred Hendricks
- Academics need to re-enter the public sphere to influence national debates.
Programme builds skills for the heritage sector
- 11 May 2012 01:56 - Mail & Guardian Reporter
- The management of South Africa's heritage resources is in for a boost following the launch of a heritage-based study programme at Rhodes University.
Open up and say 'access for everyone'
- 02 Mar 2012 09:14 - Laura Czerniewicz
- The increasing availability of high-quality free content on the internet should be encouraged.
Grahamstown activist arrested for book theft
- 13 Jan 2012 17:11 - Faranaaz Parker
- Activists have accused police of assaulting and laying false charges against UPM's Ayanda Kota in retaliation for his anti-government stance.
Fikile Bam dies at Milpark Hospital
- 18 Dec 2011 16:08 - Staff Reporter
- Judge President of the Land Claims Court, Fikile Bam, has died at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.
Wanted: A new student politics
- 31 Oct 2011 12:23 - Lis Lange
- The work-in-progress of liberation requires students to muster a daily heroism.
Looking in all the wrong places for real learning
- 26 Aug 2011 11:42 - Pamela Maseko
- Trying to find ways of teaching English better won't solve anything for most in South Africa.
Freeing oppressed minds
- 26 Aug 2011 00:00 - N Barney Pityana
- Where is the Black Consciousness Movement for our time? We need it, argues N Barney Pityana.
Affirmative action meets white mediocrity
- 26 Aug 2011 00:00 - Lewis R Gordon
- Henry Louis Gates Jr's admission reflects a fundamental problem with affirmative action.
Quo vadis university education?
- 29 Apr 2011 10:25 - Chris Mann
- Graduations took place all over the country last month. Flashbulbs popped on stages as chancellors conferred degrees on the bowed heads of thousands.
Secrets of postgrad success
- 27 Apr 2011 11:22 - Layla Cassim
- Postgraduate study can be exhilarating, but it can also be terrifying and overwhelming.
Masincokole: Talk to me!
- 21 Apr 2011 00:00 - Staff Reporter
- Learning an African language is essential to breaking down barriers, writes Russell H Kaschula.
Grasping difference
- 18 Apr 2011 10:04 - Leonhard Praeg
- The debate around the Centre for African Studies at UCT is really about the perceived need to institutionalise difference.
African languages are cool, ok?
- 15 Oct 2010 11:12 - Thandeka Mapi
- There is a crisis in African languages, particularly at school level, that everyone concerned will have to address.
On the cusp of reinvention
- 15 Oct 2010 10:04 - Staff Reporter
- It is necessary to reach the nation in languages that they understand best.
You are what you eat ...
- 23 Oct 2009 06:00 - Sharon Van Wyk
- Dr Niall Vine and his team are developing methods to mass produce the probiotics diet supplement that improves the perlemoen's immune system.
Can African journalists construct citizen-centric communications?
- 04 Sep 2008 00:00 - Staff Reporter, Guy Berger,
- High on the Highway Africa agenda will be debates on how to deepen the democratisation role of the media.
A win for transparency
- 03 Sep 2008 06:00 - Staff Reporter
- The DTI has accepted a parliamentary submission by the M&G arguing for greater transparency in the new Companies Bill.
No ordinary scientist
- 13 Aug 2008 10:57 - Staff Reporter
- Tebello Nyokong has come a long way -- from herding sheep in Lesotho as a young girl to becoming a professor of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology
