The deputy director of the department of higher education has said that data produced by her department cannot be used by academics
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader was to have addressed a conference at Cambridge University on 10 May
The right to equality and non-discrimination should not be confused with the right to freedom from criticism and inconvenient opinions
The University of Johannesburg is involved in a labour court case that concerns the right of academics to protect their students and disciplines
Bigoted academics and shoddy or racist work are not above criticism — nor should they be
More students are enrolling in doctoral studies, but gatekeepers are questioning their worthiness
Academic, University of Pretoria
With modern day attention spans less than eight seconds, educators are turning to games as new way of engaging with learners.
The country often turns to the courts when it doesn’t like what critics say, and this has a chilling effect on varsity research and the public media.
Business consultants, politicians and the media damage universities with their insular arrogance.
The humanities and arts are sacrificed in the business of ensuring solvent universities.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s latter-day fortunes tell an indicting and page-turning story.
A new book analyses threats our universities face and proposes ways of resisting them.
The Desai case showed how ‘corporate authoritarianism undermined collegiality’.
Ten years after the university’s merger, two researchers argue that internal and external politics have caused massive damage.
The Constitution’s framing lets the state take strong hold of universities.
It is mainly liberal and elite groups that oppose state intervention in universities.
Could it be that some university leaders are trying to place universities above society and government?
The CHE’s damning report provides ample evidence of the need for urgently reforming the undergraduate curriculum — but are its proposals workable?
it is often not realised that respect for the truth, ethics and integrity essentially guide vice-chancellors in their positions.
Unethical revelations undermine the legitimacy of the
peer-review process, writes <b>Renuka Vithal</b>.
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/ 11 February 2011
The seeds of UKZN’s corporate authoritarianism were planted at least a decade ago, writes <b>Caroline White</b>/
The Council on Higher Education’s supression of its audit report on UKZN has set a terrible precedent, writes <b>Shirley Brooks</b>.
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/ 14 January 2011
Supressing the entire audit of the University of KwaZulu-Natal does not benefit the university or the public, writes <b>Martin Hall</b>.
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/ 2 September 2009
The edited version of a call from the Jewish Voice for Peace to support Neve Gordon’s right to express his views
The ‘chilling effect’ of threatened disciplinary proceedings hanging over the heads of academics who voice an opinion is troubling.
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/ 27 November 2008
‘The three horsemen in academic freedom’s apocalypse are massification, managerialism and immiseration’