Sen Muller

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

Ask anyone who was at Rhodes, this specific formulation of uMakhulu was promoted by Magoqwana

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.

Wider concerns with racial representation in academia conceal a significant gender imbalance.

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.

Parents in the Eastern Cape have shut down schools because of horrendous conditions. Nomalanga Mkhize asks when the state will step in.

The manipulative game of comparison and quantification turns institutions into players, writes Sean Muller.

Some union-affiliated teachers use their positions as stepping stones to lucrative political jobs.

Proper human resource development and career and succession planning in academia are far more important.