Quacquarelli Symonds has published its top 100 universities in the five Brics countries, of which eight are South African.
Educationists have cast serious doubt over Angie Motshekga’s conclusion about the 2013 annual national assessments of numeracy and literacy.
Basic education’s new infrastructure norms do not deal with issues of capacity and accountability.
Five South African universities have made it into the top 100 of new global rankings that assessed more than 700 institutions in emerging economies.
The allocation to school infrastructure in the mid-term budget is inadequate, writes David Macfarlane.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has set out to eliminate post-school education’s dead-ends and roadblocks.
Less than 5% of black African and coloured youth succeed at university, and more than half of all first-year entrants never graduate at all.
The issue of payments to matric markers raises the same questions as the textbook debacle.
Helen Zille’s defence of Angie Motshekga 
relies on straw targets and dodgy logic.
Wits vice-chancellor designate expresses sympathy with angry staff’s grievances.