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

The new vice-chancellor has experience and insight, but his appointment has raised eyebrow.

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

Real science doesn’t happen in a laboratory. It happens in life.

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is the custodian of one of the world’s most intensive peer review systems in academic research

Not all scientific breakthroughs make it to the global news arena, yet they are happening all around us on a daily basis, mostly going unnoticed