The academic programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has been suspended following violent clashes between campus security and students
Almost one third of the food we eat comes from animal pollination, but understanding the plants and pollinators relationship isn’t straightforward.
Vice-chancellors are urging calm and students are getting restless as they prepare for the minister’s announcement on next year’s fee increase.
If there was a list of Africa’s top universities, the University of Cape Town would rank number one, and South Africa would dominate the continent.
An academic likes doing the splits between Johannesburg and KZN universities.
Don’t belittle the act of defacing symbols of the oppression students say is being upheld at universities, writes Victoria John.
Scientist Albert van Jaarsveld has been appointed the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s new vice-chancellor, ahead of two internal candidates.
It is not surprising that four students faced disciplinary charges for speaking out about their university’s problems, says the SA Students’ Congress.
A new UKZN study says it will take up to 43 years to fully transform staff profiles at South African universities to represent national demographics.
Winner: Dr Marieka Gryzenhout
Nzimande’s plan to monitor transformation in South African universities has polarised the higher education sector.
Studies in the field could produce the kinds of technology essential for humanity’s continued existence.
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/ 25 February 2011
<i>The Mail & Guardian</i>’s readers share their views on Trevor Ncube’s opinion piece, mortuaries in KwaZulu-Natal and much more.
Unethical revelations undermine the legitimacy of the
peer-review process, writes <b>Renuka Vithal</b>.
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/ 17 September 2010
Students incensed by apparent privatisation plans at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) were due to continue protests on Thursday and Friday.
Student protests at the University of KwaZulu-Natal escalated as rumours of plans to privatise residences swept through the university’s campuses.
An independent account of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s merger has yet to be written.
Storm brews in the academic teacup over authorship of a book about the creation of the university.
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/ 12 October 2009
When Suntosh Pillay began studying, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) had just opened its doors under this new name, ”merger”.
Some of those who left cite irreconcilable differences with university management over academic freedom and other issues.
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/ 10 February 2009
Postgraduate students are cash cows because they bring with them high government subsidies, more than for undergraduates.
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/ 3 December 2008
Top UKZN physicist Professor Nithaya Chetty, facing a disciplinary tribunal for criticising vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba in the media, has quit.
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/ 16 September 2008
Failed universities mergers are being examined for possible solutions, according to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
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/ 27 January 2008
As SRC officials and African staff at the University of KwaZulu-Natal we consider it necessary to indicate our position on the alleged rape of an American student at UKZN — and specifically to reply to "On race and rape at UKZN" (November 6) by Lubna Nadvi. We condemn the rape of any student or staff member, regardless of their race or class.
The history of Durban’s Grey Street casbah area — the subject and setting of various works of fiction and non-fiction — is the microcosm of the South African reality, writes Niren Tolsi