Suntosh Pillay speaks to fellow psychologist Anton Botha, who is also a former UN staff member, about Israel and Palestine and whether or not the United Nations is abdicating its duties to maintain peace
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/ 12 October 2009
When Suntosh Pillay began studying, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) had just opened its doors under this new name, ”merger”.
The psychologist BF Skinner, in 1964, said: “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” Do universities provide an adequate education to South Africa’s budding social scientists? Having experienced the university system from the inside, I think I am fairly well placed to critique what I believe are the dilemmas of a tertiary education, writes Suntosh Pillay.