There is no light side to racial prejudice.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga
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/ 4 December 2009
The department of higher education and training is reintroducing the “outdated Nated” courses.
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/ 12 October 2009
With the split in the education ministry, matric exams head Penny Vinjevold has quit to take up the position of superintendent- general.
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/ 7 September 2009
Until recently, Ndlovu was South Africa’s highest-paid vice-chancellor, earning a R3,7-million package in 2007.
How do you plug the brain drain of students leaving your country to study in the United States?
Mesa has drawn on a community of scholars, researchers, teachers, students, government officials in higher education, private sector and civil society
If higher education is not prioritised, Africa’s problems
won’t be solved.
Governments and heads of state in the African Union have emphasised the importance of higher education in the development of modern Africa.
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/ 20 February 2009
Tuition fee increases at most of South Africa’s 23 public higher education institutions have been kept below 10% or did not increase at all this year.
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/ 13 February 2009
From savage initiation rights to claims of race bias, the Potch campus is out of date and under review, writes Primarashni Gower.
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/ 12 December 2008
Aaron Ndlovu, the vice-chancellor of Mangosuthu University of Technology, had software installed to record the phone conversations of staff members.
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/ 3 December 2008
Top UKZN physicist Professor Nithaya Chetty, facing a disciplinary tribunal for criticising vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba in the media, has quit.
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/ 15 October 2008
‘The current system is hampering economic growth and development’
On average a professor earns an annual package of R500 000, while junior and senior lecturers earn between R250 000 and R350 000.
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/ 23 September 2008
New report on academic freedom calls for a greater transparency around funding allocations, writes Primarashni Gower.
A recent survey reveals the students employers place on a university’s reputation, writes Primarashni Gower.
The future of Durban’s Centre for Civil Society hangs in the balance
Academics will now receive funding based on their rating, writes Primarashni Gower.
Children in South Africa’s poorest schools are performing the worst and it is the children of the poor whom society is failing the most. This is according to the head of Wits University’s school of education, Professor Mary Metcalfe. Metcalfe was commenting on a statement by Education Minister Naledi Pandor that a “significant” number of […]