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John Higgins works from San Francisco USA. Media Studies, U. of San Francisco, Fulbright Scholar, Cyprus, Storytelling, Street Puppeteer, Prez: AFT/CFT Local 6590 @usfptfa John Higgins has over 283 followers on Twitter.
Scientific consensus generated by theoretical speculations makes the world tick, argues Swedish astrophysicist Bengt Gustafsson.
The Constitution’s framing lets the state take strong hold of universities.
Too many elite groups would have us stifle debate about academic freedom in the country.
An extract of the last interview with public intellectual Jakes Gerwel, before he died, about the national democratic revolution among others.
The humanities in South Africa are caught between a rock and a hard place — <b>John Higgins</b> assesses the state of the sector.
A strict focus on numbers and vocational training is at odds with the findings of research about the value of academic activity.
One voice was significantly absent from the conversation at Blade Nzimande’s recent higher education summit — that of chalk-face academics.
”When do you go back to work?” asks an in-law, over a New Year’s Day braai, curious about the apparent peculiarities of academic life. “Well, there’s admin stuff to do starting…
”What did you bring to read?”: the usual question I put to my academic guests. For renowned Marxist critic Terry Eagleton’s week of classes at the University of Cape Town last…
A significant tension — if not downright contradiction — is at work in the onÂgoing transformation of South Africa’s university system. Under the singular name of…
REVIEW: Heaven Forbid by Christopher Hope (Macmillan). Heaven Forbid represents a deepening of Hope’s vision of apartheid South Africa, writes John Higgins.
