Students at the University of Johannesburg say they were harrassed by Fidelity bouncers during a peaceful occupation of the vice chancellor’s office.
A critical stage of childhood development has been placed in the hands of unqualified ‘teachers’
All hell broke loose at UJ when police and hired bouncers clamped down on a protest by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command.
An academic likes doing the splits between Johannesburg and KZN universities.
Noted novelist Zakes Mda and debut writer Penny Busetto have won the University of Johannesburg awards with "Rachel’s Blue" and "The Story of Anna P".
The campaign to remove the statue is gaining momentum, placing the ‘Eurocentrism’ of national university curricula under the spotlight.
Shir’a, Na’eem Jeenah’s son was among 27 students arrested during protests at the University of Johannesburg. This is the letter Jeenah wrote to him.
Research from UJ says there’s been a sharp rise in the number of people killed in service delivery protests in the last decade.
Varsity strife takes on political edge as student protests escalate.
Leaders say they will take the Tshwane University of Technology’s management to court after students were evicted from residences for protests.
Twenty University of Johannesburg students have been suspended after protests over a shortage of funds from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.
Students at several universities are protesting over the shortage of National Student Financial Aid Scheme funds.
As matriculants celebrate the release of their results, universities have warned they would not accept walk-in applications.
Quacquarelli Symonds has published its top 100 universities in the five Brics countries, of which eight are South African.
To mark novelist Nadine Gordimer’s 90th birthday, Craig MacKenzie celebrates how her work has astutely interpreted the tenor of our times.
Concerns about the export of South African culture abroad featured heavily at the Creative Currencies conference that recently took place at UJ.
Arts and Culture Trust conference contributor Bev Gillespie explains that it is artists themselves who will decide how much creativity is worth.
Watch the live feed of US President Barack Obama as he visits the University of Johannesburg for a Young African Leaders Initiative meeting.
United States President Barack Obama faces "the mother of all protests" when he visits the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto campus.
Colleges are vital in the attempt to unscramble the confusion at the doors of higher learning that leave thousands in limbo.
Nearly 200 hopeful applicants have been turned away from the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Pretoria campus after queuing for hours.
A number of students at UJ face disciplinary action after staff discovered they had submitted fake sick notes to avoid writing their exams on time.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has unveiled his plan to better manage the admission of thousands of prospective students to universities.
The state’s research-funding model does not serve all of academia equally well.
The University of Pretoria have finished the Varsity Cup at the top of the log with a four-try bonus point victory over the University of Cape Town.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> invites you to the next Teachers Upfront dialogue.
Those in the stampede succumbed to the ideology of rampant individualism.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s new policy document offers an unflinchingly thorough analysis of SA’s training needs, but is it enough?
Experts question the proposal of a new application system for universities and the touting of FET colleges as a viable alternative to universities.
At the centre of the University of Johannesburg crisis is its vice-chancellor, Professor Ihron Rensburg. He spoke to <b>Bongani Nkosi</b>.
The University of Johannesburg says it will pay the tuition fees of the man whose mother was killed in a stampede at its Bunting Road campus.
After a fatal stampede in Johannesburg, questions are being raised about why late applicants in Gauteng target UJ and not other universities.