There will be greater access to tertiary education institutions, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced in Pretoria on Monday
Higher education is not immune from the conceit of the one-party state, writes <b>Amanda Ngwenya</b>.
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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.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has to date recovered just over a quarter of the R12-billion it has loaned to poor student.
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/ 23 September 2009
University residences are filled to capacity and face increasing student numbers, writes Monako Dibetle.
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/ 20 September 2009
For those students who manage to stay in higher education, it requires that the university employs more temporary staff to do the remedial work.
You have to hand it to him. Professor Malusi Marcus Balintulo has led a charmed life in the history of South African higher education.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has the rare opportunity, skills and resources to change the destiny of South Africa.
Along with research and teaching, community engagement is one of the three primary purposes of higher education in South Africa.
The battle for the heart of the South African university goes as far back as the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE) in 1996.
If higher education is not prioritised, Africa’s problems
won’t be solved.
Pampallis taught at schools and lectured at universities in South Africa and abroad.
Is there going to be enough space for first-years in the next five years?
Governments and heads of state in the African Union have emphasised the importance of higher education in the development of modern Africa.
So Blade has met the vice-chancellors. Not that this meeting reached the tabloids. In fact, it was a subdued affair.
Sasco has voiced its disappointment at minister Blade Nzimande’s assurances to Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana that his job is safe.
More on the damning survey published by the <i>M&G</i> which found that racial, gender and other forms of discrimination are rife in higher education.
University law deans have approached the Council on Higher Education to probe the relevance and adequacy of the LLB degree.
A ministerial report on adult education could herald a new vision and strategy for the sector.
The ‘chilling effect’ of threatened disciplinary proceedings hanging over the heads of academics who voice an opinion is troubling.
Research production in the SADC has dropped significantly in the past few years, but plans are in place to remedy the situation.
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/ 25 February 2009
A month into the year staff are rioting, the policemen are shooting, the students are getting hit and the leaders are hiding. All is as it should.
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/ 20 February 2009
The R4,2-billion awarded to the department of science and technology may be one of the smallest allocations in the budget.
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/ 30 January 2009
Merger assimilated a mish-mash of student cultures, staff work ethics, academic standards and disparate infrastructure.
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/ 26 November 2008
Academics and universities have come under fire for using decontextualised textbooks in their lecture halls.
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/ 20 October 2008
Closer interaction is needed for the employability of talent, writes Francis Petersen
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/ 20 October 2008
The University of Pretoria has overhauled its community engagement efforts, adopting the approach that charity begins at home.
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/ 20 October 2008
Engineering, health sciences and student housing to receive lion’s share of new funding. Primarashni Gower reports.
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/ 20 October 2008
Nurses and midwives must be given the opportunity to advance their careers while staying in their jobs, writes Cheryl Nikodem.
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/ 20 October 2008
The HEQC has audited 26 higher education institutions, 15 of them public, since the inception of the institutional audits in 2004.
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/ 15 October 2008
‘The current system is hampering economic growth and development’