University fees protests

How you will pay for Zuma's free education plan

NationalLynley Donnelly , Khadija Patel, Matuma Letsoalo | 2017-11-10 00:00:00

The government is considering drastic budget cuts to fund free higher education, including cutting social grants, freezing the roll-out of RDP...

Integrate science, don’t segregate it

EducationKishen Mahesh | 2016-12-15 00:00:00

COMMENTColonisation is defined as “the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an...

Vice-chancellors want free tuition for poor students in 2017

NationalPrega Govender | 2016-10-27 00:00:00

The country’s 26 vice-chancellors say that the government should provide free higher education to poor students from January.

State ‘advised varsity shutdown’

NationalPrega Govender | 2016-10-07 00:00:00

The department of higher education recently advised the universities of the Witwatersrand, Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal to consider shutting down...

Equal Education: Students are aiming at the wrong target and inadvertently protecting the government

EducationAshleigh Furlong | 2016-10-05 16:36:00

#FeesMustFall protesters are aiming at the wrong target, says Equal Education general secretary Tshepo Motsepe. The call for free higher education...

Varsity fee hikes could go above 8%

NationalPrega Govender | 2016-09-23 00:00:00

There’s no guarantee that university fee increases for 2017 would be capped at 8%, as recommended by the higher education minister, said the...

‘Cost disease’ plagues varsities and efficiency at institutions is closely examined

BusinessLisa Steyn | 2016-09-09 00:00:00

Rising costs, like a tapeworm, gorge on the substance of universities, hollowing them from the inside out. Their appetite for income is insatiable,...

Varsities brace for fee increase as Sasco warns of 'worse' protests than last year

NationalPrega Govender | 2016-07-21 00:00:00

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is likely to announce at least a 6% increase in university fees, with student bodies already warning of...

Barbarism, burnings and Beckett

OpinionMike Van Graan | 2016-03-03 15:01:00

Our social media and public discourse has become increasingly polarised and polarising; there is little room for nuance, for reflection rather...

#ColourBlind campaign refuses to open its eyes to injustice

ColumnistsPontsho Pilane | 2016-02-26 11:41:00

The idea behind the campaign #ColourBlind is noble in intent, but serves to be harmful – mostly to black people, who suffer various forms of...

NWU closes Mafikeng campus indefinitely after violent protests

NationalANA reporter | 2016-02-25 09:59:00

Students at the Northwest University’s Mafikeng Campus were told to go home on Wednesday night as the institution’s management opted to shut the...

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