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The Durban University of Technology (above) has rejected suggestions that one of its students committed suicide because he had not got  financial support from the National Student Aid Scheme.

Durban university denies student jumped to his death over funding

The National Student Aid Scheme insisted it had fully funded his studies, despite suggestions to the contrary from student leaders

Fomer minister of higher education Nobuhle Nkabane. (@Dr_NohbuleN/X)

DA renews call for Nkabane’s dismissal over Seta panel scandal

The party has accused the higher education minister of misleading parliament and violating the executive ethics code by fabricating the legitimacy of the selection process of…

The deputy director of the department of higher education has said  that data produced by her department cannot be used by academics.

In defence of academic freedom and scientific method

The deputy director of the department of higher education has said that data produced by her department cannot be used by academics

Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

Thousands of jubilant matriculants will be celebrating the end of 12 years of secondary schooling.

Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

Educor, the largest private education provider in Southern Africa, owns the Damelin, CityVarsity, Icesa City Campus and Lyceum colleges.

Saftu calls on education department to ensure workers’ rights are upheld at Educor colleges

The department of higher education and training has reinstated the private college group’s registration after after revoking it in March

Drivers in the cabin of a hydrogen-powered truck during a moving demonstration, part of Anglo American Plc’s NuGen carbon-neutral project, at the Anglo American Platinum Ltd. Mogalakwena platinum mine in Mogalakwena, South Africa, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Anglo American unveiled the worlds biggest green-hydrogen powered truck at a platinum mine in northeast South Africa where it aims to replace a fleet of 40 diesel-fueled vehicles that each use about a million liters of the fossil fuel every year. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

South Africa faces skills gap in hydrogen economy, report finds

The Labour Market Intelligence report has found that occupational workers lack hydrogen-specific skills to compete in the global economy

Educor qualifications are valid, says department

The department of higher education has assured students that they will not be left stranded following the decision to deregister four private colleges

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande

Nzimande slams Educor for leaving 13 000 students stranded

The higher education department has deregistered Damelin, CityVarsity, Icesa City Campus and Lyceum College after they failed to submit financial reports from 2020

Damelin is one of four colleges that has been deregistered by the department of education.

Damelin, Lyceum College and CityVarsity deregistered

The South African Union of Students says the education department has been in the process of deregistering Educor’s private institutions since July 2023

Back to basics: Ndevana High School in rural Eastern Cape, like many schools, particularly in rural South Africa, has inadequate facilities. Photo by: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Department of Education

Bold strides have been made in unravelling apartheid’s systems of education but there is still a lot to be done to achieve equality

New skills and solutions are needed for businesses and individuals to thrive in the rapidly changing world of work

Education needs the tools to innovate, invent and create

New skills and solutions are needed for businesses and individuals to thrive in the rapidly changing world of work

Students to continue with protest until demands are met

Vice-chancellors tell parliament that there needs to be a lasting national solution to the funding issues as they cannot deal with them on their own

Higher education minister Blade Nzimande, who was the first to make a presentation, asked to be excused straight afterwards, because he had another important meeting he needed to attend.

Portfolio committee on higher education criticises ministry for not taking it seriously

Neither the minister nor deputy minister stayed for the duration of an urgent committee meeting to discuss funding challenges for university students

NSFAS is a nepotist fiefdom – staff

Employees at the student financial aid scheme have told the education parliamentary portfolio committee that the administrator did not follow procedures when people were appointed