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/ 10 February 2011
DUT students have set one of the institution’s cars alight and thrown rocks at the executive director’s office in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.
Unresolved tensions between students and management at UJ erupted on Friday at the university’s launch of its Soweto campus.
An institute for race studies has been set up opposite the notorious Reitz residence on UFS, writes <b>Kamogelo Seekoei</b>.
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/ 2 February 2011
Accommodation will be provided to all students at the University of Limpopo, management and students resolved at a meeting on Tuesday.
We need to scrutinise the ideological baggage of some favourite academic words.
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/ 28 January 2011
If we can learn to think about religion, we can learn to think about anything, argues <b>David Chidester</b>.
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/ 28 January 2011
Physicists at Wits University now have access to the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments used to study "elementary particles".
The Council on Higher Education’s supression of its audit report on UKZN has set a terrible precedent, writes <b>Shirley Brooks</b>.
Auditor general slams student financial aid scheme that will manage new R1,5-billion allocation.
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/ 19 January 2011
Africa has a unique opportunity to provide solutions for the global problem of climate change, says Professor Sir David King.
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/ 14 January 2011
Supressing the entire audit of the University of KwaZulu-Natal does not benefit the university or the public, writes <b>Martin Hall</b>.
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/ 14 January 2011
Neither the ANC nor the government has any time frame in mind for the implementation of the goal of free education.
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/ 11 January 2011
Two Johannesburg universities were flooded this week by unprecedented numbers of students seeking late admission.
Higher education is not immune from the conceit of the one-party state, writes <b>Amanda Ngwenya</b>.
Diverse campus lifestyles in the US inspire Kovsies to become ‘cohorts of change’.
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/ 3 December 2010
It may be time to reinsert the liberal arts curriculum into undergraduate degrees argue <b>J Edward Chamberlin and Peter Vale</b>.
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/ 1 December 2010
A UCT graduate has written a scathing open letter to HET MInister Blade Nzimande detailing the difficulties he and other black graduates face.
Varsity snobbery endangers the training of teachers for the foundation phase, writes <b>Michael Rice</b>.
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/ 26 November 2010
The research-subsidy formula could be undermining academic quality.
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/ 24 November 2010
University lecturers should themselves be taught how to teach, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday.
Researchers take issue with the suggestion of new colleges of education for foundation-phase teachers.
Business interests within the University of Zululand (UniZulu), in question.
Now in its 17th year, UWC’s celebrated history seminar takes stock, writes <b>Jill Weintroub</b>.
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/ 5 November 2010
The dispute about corporatisation of universities centres on the erosion of a sense of vocation, write <b>Alan Weinberg and Greg Graham Smith</b>.
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/ 3 November 2010
Politics is playing a "devastating" role on campus and has made universities the terrain where "comrades and racists struggle".
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/ 1 November 2010
President Zuma signalled his commitment to improving the skills sector by appointing Hlengiwe Mkhize as deputy minister of Higher Education.
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/ 29 October 2010
Wits University students will become the first African team to participate in the iGEM competition, run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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/ 29 October 2010
How you conduct yourself in a bursary interview will determine if you get that much-needed financial help, writes <b>Riva Levin</b>.
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/ 29 October 2010
University is the first in Africa to sign the Berlin Declaration and post its research online.
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/ 22 October 2010
Rural development conference hears how the area can become South Africa’s bread basket.
First-year maths and science students perform worse than their predecessors.
It is necessary to reach the nation in languages that they understand best.