Zuma’s free higher education proposal is the worst kind of populism. It’s been sold as a radically progressive policy with no negative consequences.
We went to Tshwane University of Technology to speak to students queuing to register for the 2018 academic year. Accommodation is one of the concerns.
The EFF has rejected the Heher Commission’s report on the feasibility of fee-free education on the basis that it will create ‘class segregation’
Readers write in about Ahmed Timol, the issues that hinder students’ success, and President Zuma’s statue in Nigeria
We need to address student failure as a factor in their anger towards universities
Technology will constantly change the working world and institutions need to get the message
Steven Zwane is the scheme’s new boss and wants buy-in to support the business of helping students
Decolonised education is one that incorporates local information that is relevant to all learners
Some students have turned to online crowdfunding to raise funds for their studies.
Wits University should take up students’ violence as a pedagogical challenge.
Countries thrive when supported by a well-resourced and value-creating higher education sector.
Iviwe Fakela, a University of Cape Town medical student, has words of encouragement for first-year varsity students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Some are owed amounts ranging from R88 000 to R384 000 by the higher education department.
Reparation and redistribution to stop generational inequality underlies the protests.
The annual gathering of UCT’s alumni revealed how hard universities must work in the coming years to encourage dissent and debate.
In this submission to the Fees Commission, academics outline the implications of free higher education.
South Africa is trudging California’s ruined road of tertiary education to inequality and exclusion
The letter to ambassador Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu was written in a bid to apply pressure on the South African government to listen to students.
Students and workers will march to the South African consulate to hand over a letter of demands to the South African ambassador to the US.
The organisation said parastatal bailouts could also have been used more profitably.
The education minister’s advisory board says another no-fee increase will cause even greater financial stress on poor students.
Tefera Tadesse undertook a study to find out the realities, opportunities and impediments of quality assurance at Ethiopian universities.
There is a vital intersect between schools as a pipeline to higher education, and higher education as the conduit for teachers into schools.
The Bill strives to solve problems affecting the tertiary sector and has been a consultative and inclusive process, writes William Lebohang Somo.
The university has played a historic role but must now lead the way in establishing leading African institutions of knowledge.
President Jacob Zuma has announced a commission of inquiry into higher education funding and related issues.
The African child still bears the burden of apartheid and a brutal system of capitalism which keeps him begging for participation in the economy.
SA’s only no-fee university has been closed since December, but a multimillion-rand offer to rescue the institute holds hope for poor students.
St Augustine College, the Catholic Church-owned higher education institution, has announced it is reinstating its undergraduate degree studies.
Senior academic at the University of Johannesburg Dr Andre van Zyl says universities enroll just over a quarter of youth who complete matric.
In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall movement, the minister is pushing for "urgent" demographic changes at the country’s universities.
Don’t belittle the act of defacing symbols of the oppression students say is being upheld at universities, writes Victoria John.