David Macfarlane

Despite glowing accounts of the new VC at his inauguration, Albert van Jaarsveld’s address failed to offer real solutions to students’ problems.

Nhlanhla Nene has little good luck and plenty of tough luck for the country’s millions of children, young people and universities as well.

The Independent Media boss cites "jobs for pals" and lack of change in his resignation letter from various University of Cape Town bodies.

The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.

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Scientist Albert van Jaarsveld has been appointed the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s new vice-chancellor, ahead of two internal candidates.

In an unusual case, activists want the government to be legally bound to extensive education reforms.

The Pretoria high court has ruled that government violated the right to basic education by failing to deliver textbooks to all Limpopo schoolchildren.

Government must show Sadtu the door, otherwise just hand the entire ministry of education over to this power-crazed union, writes David Macfarlane.

The launch of Blade Nzimande’s white paper and the audited data on universities exposes the steady pattern of dropouts, failure and graduation.

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.