On average a professor earns an annual package of R500 000, while junior and senior lecturers earn between R250 000 and R350 000.
The South African Qualifications Authority has invited Professor Tony Watts to address heads of industry on the importance of career guidance.
Education Minister Naledi Pandor is considering making the undergraduate degree a four-year degree, but this depends on conditions at each university.
Private tertiary education institution St Augustine College of South Africa will offer a BCom degree next year.
This area of study fosters understanding across barriers of race, class, gender or ethnicity, argues Louise Vincent.
Thuthuka initiative helps students financially, socially and academically, writes Cornia Pretorius.
Business education is becoming more accessible thanks to new technology, which allows more flexible learning.
Latest report shows the sector has to meet a growing demand without compromising quality.
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New report on academic freedom calls for a greater transparency around funding allocations, writes Primarashni Gower.
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Finally, the contribution that private higher-education institutions can make is being recognised, writes Felicity Coughlan.
Pandor sends investigators to Mangosuthu University after suspension of vice-chancellor
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With about 60 000 students TUT is South Africa’s largest university of technology and second largest university, after Unisa.
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Amanda Matthee looks at how Stellenbosch University’s business school has updated its MBA for 2009.
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The MBA has been a recognised qualification, and the individuals who have earned it have achieved a broad understanding of management skills.
Engineers, oceanographers and chemists in eight African countries will benefit from three grants of $800 000 each from a new initiative.
There was a time when higher education was the last bastion of a moral order within a self-interested society.
Wits University’s vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor respond to a recent M&G article on the transformation process at the institution.
Report reveals Wits University’s graduation rates for 2004 were well below the national benchmark for higher education.
When are online student comments about lecturers free expression, asks Kate Smith, and when are they harassment?
The principle of competition is one of the key reasons that America’s system of higher education is the best in the world.
The newly appointed director of Milpark’s faculty of management and leadership sheds light on the changing role of business schools.
Higher education is clearly dangerous in today’s political climate. Zuma has no formal education, but that hasn’t deterred him.
The ANC’s Polokwane conference resolved that the government should progressively introduce free education for the poor up to undergraduate level.
One of America’s top universities is making a difference with online courses that — it hopes — will transform global education.
We must face up to the difference between study for study’s sake and the vocational and practical training that South Africa desperately needs.
Universities of technology need to differentiate themselves from traditional universities, write Primarashni Gower and Cornia Pretorius.
Earlier this year Khadija Magardie wrote of a dispute at the University of Natal over the suspension of a senior academic.
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Wits University is understood to have asked the Minister of National Education, FW De Klerk, to withdraw his proposals