The surprise surely is that anyone is surprised. We report elsewhere on the appalling levels of literacy and numeracy among primary school children.
Is South African public schooling damaging some children’s natural potential?
Legal action launched this week against the state’s NSFAS.
The Medical University of South Africa, folded into the University of Polokwane in 2005, is to be re-established, the higher education minister says.
Sociologist Ari Sitas’s ministerial task team on the humanities will convene an international workshop in Johannesburg next week.
Blade Nzimande has serial legal battles to fight if he is to secure his recent radical overhaul of the skills sector.
Abebe Zegeye denies he was dismissed after an <i>M&G</i> article on plagiarism.
Embattled council members at UniZulu have hit back bitterly at Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.
The university has kept quiet about an academic’s dismissal last year for ‘too perfect paraphrasing’.
Hard-hitting report commissioned by higher education minister causes jubilation on campus.
By the age of eight, children from the poorest 80% of households in South Africa are already far behind the school performance of the richest 20%.
Widely respected academic Ahmed Bawa will be inaugurated as vice-chancellor and principal of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) this weekend.
In a heated debate that led to a secret ballot, the University of Johannesburg has cut all ties with Ben Gurion University in Israel.
Students and academics question move to ‘close’ Centre for African Studies, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.
Violent conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa have choked the growth of literacy in the region, a major Unesco report released this week says.
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/ 25 February 2011
Teachers trained at huge state expense could be lost to public education if the WCED does not find them teaching posts by Monday.
Can the further education and training system cope with sudden expansion?
The determination of residents in Thembalihle who took to the streets three weeks ago to get their children into school, has paid off.
The audit of the University of KwaZulu Natal also details an enrolment decline and a deficit.
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/ 31 January 2011
The board of the state’s controversially underperforming student-financing body, NSFAS, will be "restructured", Parliament heard last week.
Council on Higher Education withdraws audit report after vice-chancellor alleges bias, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.
The 2010 maths and science matric results rang alarm bells for some educationists.
Business interests within the University of Zululand (UniZulu), in question.
Access to quality education: The preserve of a privileged few?
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/ 12 November 2010
A prestigious institute that aims to produce a South African Einstein is struggling to find local candidates for the role.
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/ 29 October 2010
Ranjeni Munusamy is out. The long-time ally of Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande will leave the department by this weekend.
Soon after the loss of director general Mary Metcalfe, key aide Ranjeni Munusamy quits Blade Nzimande’s department of higher education.
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/ 15 October 2010
To improve South Africa’s dismal PhD performance the government will have to navigate a minefield.
Ari Sitas will head a government initiative "to rejuvenate and strengthen the social sciences and humanities", it was announced on Wednesday.
University of Johannesburg’s "human-rights breakthrough" shows "solidarity with the oppressed".
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/ 24 September 2010
Archbishop Desmond has added his voice to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University.
What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?