We should resist the seduction of violence when calling out the brutality of structural racism at our universities, writes Tinyiko Maluleke.
Weeding out student essays from paper mills will require work by established academia and a renewed commitment to integrity from varsity communities.
We ask Minister Blade Nzimande, all 26 vice-chancellors and every faculty dean to please declare publicly their views and policies on plagiarism.
The education department believes that if the country’s skills base is to expand, college graduates should be given credit for their diplomas.
What futures do varsities globally have? Peter Vale interviewed Craig Calhoun, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
It is not surprising that four students faced disciplinary charges for speaking out about their university’s problems, says the SA Students’ Congress.
Expose young minds to thinking that questions society’s vast and enduring inequalities.
Treasury will increase funds to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, which is likely to help more than 500 000 students per year.
The first Mpumalanga university has teething problems, but it intends to be on track in time.
And we must also ask how well the National Development Plan articulates higher education’s role.
Quacquarelli Symonds has published its top 100 universities in the five Brics countries, of which eight are South African.
New study’s criteria for rating university transformation are far too narrow.
Novelist and academic JM Coetzee’s foreword to University of Cape Town fellow Professor John Higgins’s new book.
Despite causing the crash, the high priests of economics have never faced retribution and the same flawed theories are still taught in universities.
Hussein Badat responds to Fred de Vries’s article "Grahamstown: Love and sex in the city of saints."
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has set out to eliminate post-school education’s dead-ends and roadblocks.
Universities are concerned that poor drafting ?of amendments gives the minister too much power.
The Walter Sisulu University employees, currently on strike for a salary increment, are the highest paid university employees in the country.
Education prospects are looking grim for South Africa’s school pupils, and government is now compelled to respond. What is its diagnosis?
The Council of Higher Education’s recent report paints a scary picture of a student landscape little changed since 1982, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Less than 5% of black African and coloured youth succeed at university, and more than half of all first-year entrants never graduate at all.
Refusing to forget the violent conflicts of South Africa’s past is the surest way of ending them.
Every year thousands of people around the world die on the road when their vehicles crash into a traffic light or lamp pole.
There can be no doubt that Blade Nzimande has damaged the prospects of deep and durable change at our universities.
The manipulative game of comparison and quantification turns institutions into players, writes Sean Muller.
The London School of Economics’ relationship with Libya has given rise to controversy.
Students and academics question move to ‘close’ Centre for African Studies, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.
it is often not realised that respect for the truth, ethics and integrity essentially guide vice-chancellors in their positions.
Student representatives at the strife-torn University of Zululand are hopeful that academic activity will resume at the institution on Wednesday.
From home renovations to book sales: A week in the life of a relocated academic.
Unethical revelations undermine the legitimacy of the
peer-review process, writes <b>Renuka Vithal</b>.
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The seeds of UKZN’s corporate authoritarianism were planted at least a decade ago, writes <b>Caroline White</b>/