One of the world’s most respected spiritual and human rights leaders, Tutu was a living testament to faith in action, insuppressible in his opposition against the evils of racism
The region’s slow increase in enrolment is worrying — but there are bright spots.
Support for intraregional collaboration in higher education is essential to boost local development.
For better or worse, come January 2005, South Africa’s higher education landscape will be so altered as to be unrecognisable. Some institutions will have vanished, others will be merged and rebranded, and a new breed of mega-varsities called comprehensives will have been established. Once the mergers are completed next year, what then?