Form good relationships with your classmates for important support in postgrad
The state should intervene and rezone suburbs to lower property prices and rent
People’s experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education are affected by their social standing
Academics in the developing world have become a favourite target for these journals, and many seem to be falling into the trap
LGBTQI+ students continue to come up against heteronormative, patriarchal attitudes despite universities’ attempts to neutralise gender.
Practical steps will help the National Education Crisis Forum resolve the fees issue and other problems.
Universities must move beyond measuring inclusion based only on the number of students with disabilities they have enrolled each year.
The ongoing debates around reform in higher education are a piece of a much wider historical, political and cultural set of issues.
Student organisations have threatened to revolt against a decrease in enrolments of first-year university students and the capping of college numbers.
Faced with failing economies and climate change, free education fights need better solutions than shutdowns and technocratic responses.
This figure excludes the socioeconomic costs to the entire university community.
The ANC secretary general’s thought that he would have preferred to shut universities down to deal with protests is very ill-informed.
African universities were once considered vital tools for nation building and destroying them risks reversing the developmental gains we have made.
Although some might see the glass as half-full, the numbers of female professors are improving.
The children of working class and poorer families will get middling to mediocre quality education, academics warn.
Only an 8% rise in income will be enough to doctor their ailing financial health, varsities say
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma, higher education minister Blade Nzimande, and finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
The idea of fee-free university education is still on the table, say the vice-chancellors, if the fee component of the budget is made up.
Deployment to SRC positions in the country’s universities is heating up infighting between members of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA).
The average student is female, black, not wealthy enough, and wants to be taught in English, writes Tinyiko Maluleke.
The current model of curricula and how it is carried out needs to change in order to be effective, writes Suellen Shay.
Varsities have a role to play in changing the status quo, writes Richard Pithouse.
The figures show that, in real terms, those getting degrees more than doubled in the past 10 years.
Survivors of sexual violence are unhappy with universities’ policies and actions, and researchers say under-reporting is part of the problem.
Tefera Tadesse undertook a study to find out the realities, opportunities and impediments of quality assurance at Ethiopian universities.
Readers write in about multilingualism and diversityin general and at UCT and Potch.
The groundwork is being laid for a just and ethical institution that respects the dignity of all
Jonathan Jansen spells out the issues and difficulties in making SA a more equal society in his book, Leading for Change, writes Mark Potterton.
It won’t be business as usual at academic registration around the country next week, as universities anticipate another round of disruptions.
United States Vice-President Joe Biden: “Any time consent is not or cannot be given, it is sexual assault and it is a crime.”
Western hegemony in higher education will not fall as long as state policies perpetuate it.
#FeesMustFall: As student protests spread across the country, these participating voices speak from their various universities