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.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s "wonderful problem" came back to haunt him when a stampede at UJ left one woman dead and 17 injured.
Neither the University of Johannesburg nor the metro police is willing to accept responsibility for the fatal stampede at the Bunting Road campus.
A woman has been crushed to death in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg, after applicants desperate for a berth rushed the varsity’s gates.
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/ 21 October 2011
A school is pioneering a new method of teaching multilingual children in early grades.
Is an over-emphasis on the rights of teachers damaging the rights of learners?
South African students have spoken out against what they call "Israeli apartheid agents" who plan to visit South African universities.
Author, Ivan Vladislavic, has won his second UJ prize with a three-part novel that covers familiar ground.
Debate about the boycott of Israeli academic institutions has been marked by misunderstandings about the University of Johannesburg’s position.
The University of Johannesburg community should be congratulated for voting to sever links with Israel’s Ben Gurion University.
The campaign to boycott Israel has won a victory by persuading UJ to end its scientific collaboration with Ben Gurion University.
Blaming and shaming South Africa’s schoolteachers will do nothing to heal the country’s dysfunctional education system.
<i>M&G</i> readers weigh in on UJ’s ties with BGU, renewable energy, Japan’s nuclear crisis and more.
Links between other SA universities and their counterparts in Israel are now likely to come under the scrutiny of boycott campaigners.
The UJ’s decision to sever ties with Ben-Gurion University and end their collaborative research will hurt South Africans, the institution said.
The severing of ties between UJ and Ben Gurion University is a blow to academic freedom, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies said on Wednesday.
Activists campaigning for UJ to cut ties with Israel’s Ben Gurion University have compiled a report on the latter’s links with the Israeli military.
FET colleges are valuable institutions for further education but suffer from misconceptions among the youth and their parents.
These pictures from 1927 come with a cultural
disclaimer, appropriate for works that fit into the ’colonial fantasy’ template.
Unresolved tensions between students and management at UJ erupted on Friday at the university’s launch of its Soweto campus.
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/ 28 January 2011
Diary of a migration from tranquil Rhodes to seething Jo’burg, by <b>Peter Vale</b>.
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/ 11 January 2011
Two Johannesburg universities were flooded this week by unprecedented numbers of students seeking late admission.
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/ 11 January 2011
Many of the prospective students flocking to the University of Johannesburg may not get in at all, the institution said on Tuesday.
Researchers take issue with the suggestion of new colleges of education for foundation-phase teachers.
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/ 12 November 2010
SA has transformed nuclear weapons into a tool for detecting cancer and heart disease, with a new technology that could ease nuclear arms trafficking
University of Johannesburg’s "human-rights breakthrough" shows "solidarity with the oppressed".
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/ 24 September 2010
Archbishop Desmond has added his voice to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University.
No philosophy department in the country is doing more to train black postgraduates than UJ, says Professor Thaddeus Metz, head of the department.
Following violent student protests and police action at UJ on Wednesday, the university applied for an urgent court order to prevent further protests.