The Independent Media boss cites "jobs for pals" and lack of change in his resignation letter from various University of Cape Town bodies.
In an unusual case, activists want the government to be legally bound to extensive education reforms.
So heavily has the government’s thumb been pressing its "spin at all costs" button it’s become too easy to lose sight of the human realities at stake
Instead of attending a critical meeting of a university he put under administration, he took to the streets in support of the president.
New data expose the staggering inequities in state schooling, putting Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s own performance squarely on the line.
School workbooks now introduce another steaming pile of tender-related questions in this debacle, writes David Macfarlane.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is on a collision course with CUT management after putting the university under administration.
Nzimande has been advised to place two universities under administration but has given their councils the opportunity to explain themselves first.
Children are unlikely to excel in schools that
are falling to pieces.
The minister’s budget-vote speech traversed competing priorities.
Parliament’s discussion about the financing of SA’s universities and skills development sector begs the question: What is at stake? The answer: A lot.
Higher education minister Blade Nzimande’s budget vote next week has virtually become predictable — for colleges and Setas.
The Central University of Technology has found itself at the centre of an independent assessment into claims of financial abuse and mismanagement.
Students at South Africa’s universities live in squalid accommodation and often go hungry. <b>David Macfarlane</b> reports.
A devastating report released by Minister Blade Nzimande has revealed the inadequate accommodation SA universities provide for many of its students.
Pravin Gordhan sticks to his guns and gives education the biggest portion of the national budget.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is looking into another governance crisis — this time at the Central University of Technology.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has appointed an assessor to investigate various issues at the crisis-ridden Vaal University of Technology.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s new policy document offers an unflinchingly thorough analysis of SA’s training needs, but is it enough?
Trevor Manuel’s national development plan is clear on the problems but does it present workable solutions?
Questions are being asked over the experience of the newly-appointed Walter Sisulu administrators.
A damning report on basic education spending queries the adequacy of the state’s watchdog committees.
Walter Sisulu University is sinking further into crisis as staff and students appeal for immediate intervention by minister Blade Nzimande.
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/ 14 October 2011
Walter Sisulu University nearly failed to be born at all according to a recently published political memoir.
Walter Sisulu University should become the second disastrous tertiary merger to be undone, according to views quoted before Blade Nzimande.
Two related legal actions will follow hot on the embarrassing heels of the scandal that enveloped Tshwane University of Technology vice-chancellor.
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/ 16 September 2011
All 20 members of the UFS’s SRC now face high court action from a student unionist who argues that their election violates the SA Constitution.
The Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report proposes 10 "game-breaking recommendations".
Presidential penises and lesbian theory are not natural bedfellows, but they’ve come to mind of late in the same unlikely context.
The first study of the field diagnoses a major crisis that threatens its survival.
TUT vice-chancellor says he was not worried by his alma mater’s lack of accreditation.
The pictures on his iPad evoke the now familiar images of unlocked popular anger on the streets of Cairo that led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak.