The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
Kamwendo’s murder is an incident that is simply at the extreme end of a spectrum of problematic dynamics in the South African academy
The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.
Substantive transformation is central to UCT’s focus in the wake of the Rhodes statue debacle.
New proposals to train better maths teachers ignore many schools’ resource constraints.
Yet it still claims it is working to change the racial demographic of its academic staff.
The many barriers faced by younger staff unfairly protect senior incumbents.
As older academics retire, there seems to be little deliberate action to bring new blood on board.
The phrase ‘academic freedom’ is meaningless without institutional quality and integrity.
The manipulative game of comparison and quantification turns institutions into players, writes Sean Muller.