About 22 000 more matric candidates achieved university entrance in 2008 than in the previous year, but many cannot be absorbed into an overtaxed tertiary education system.
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/ 28 December 2008
The legacy of OBE is revealing itself through those who have lived the changes, write Cornia Pretorius and Primarashni Gower.
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/ 21 November 2008
The education department has absolutely no intention of ditching outcomes-based education (OBE), MiniÂster Naledi Pandor insisted in an exclusive interview this week. But it had already modified the system and would continue to tweak it.
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/ 6 November 2008
Two eminent UKZN professors are facing a disciplinary tribunal because they criticised vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba in the media.
Education Minister Naledi Pandor is to crack down on exorbitant salaries earned by vice-chancellors after they failed to regulate themselves.
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/ 20 October 2008
Engineering, health sciences and student housing to receive lion’s share of new funding. Primarashni Gower reports.
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/ 20 October 2008
The latest antics between the eThekwini municipality and the University of KwaZulu-Natal could make even Albert Einstein turn in his grave.
The University of Johannesburg is spending R25-million on scholarships for master’s and PhD students, some of whom will be guaranteed employment
The ANC’s Polokwane conference resolved that the government should progressively introduce free education for the poor up to undergraduate level.
Universities of technology need to differentiate themselves from traditional universities, write Primarashni Gower and Cornia Pretorius.