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Jairam Reddy

Jairam Reddy is the former vice-chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville; chair of the National Commission on Higher Education; and former director of the United Nations International Leadership Institute, Amman, Jordan.

The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File
ARCHITECTS OF POVERTY

South Africa must flatten the inequality curve

We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the…

  • Jairam Reddy
7 min read
The salaries of academic staff have fallen behind and the gap between the highest and lowest paid has widened.
FEES MUST FALL

VCs: Set a trend for moderate pay

By accepting more modest remuneration packages, varsity vice-chancellors can send a powerful message to bosses in the corporate and parastatal sectors

  • Jairam Reddy
9 min read
(John McCann)
SOUTH AFRICAN CABINET

South Africa urgently needs ethical leaders

Values of integrity, honesty and respect lose out to assertive, manipulative, controlling achievers

  • Jairam Reddy
8 min read
HIGHER EDUCATION SOUTH AFRICA

Varsity councils need upgrading

All post-1994 ministers have had to deploy administrators to shore up troubled universities.

  • Jairam Reddy
5 min read
LEADERSHIP

Leading us to moral leaders

Universities must show the way in developing a new cadre of leaders with a heightened sense of ethics.

  • Jairam Reddy
9 min read
FURTHEREDUCATIONANDTRAINING

Linchpin for skills

The FET sector can provide crucial expertise and knowledge for many in the informal economy, writes Jairam Reddy.

  • Jairam Reddy
4 min read