Academic Funding
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Science and technology: The key to addressing youth unemployment
Cyril Ramaphosa and Naledi Pandor have a particularly pro-intellectual stance, pushing science and technology as a way to drive economic growth.
Postgrads urgently need funding
The financing of undergraduate degrees but not postgraduate is short-sighted and counterproductive
Varsities are chronically underfunded say more than 1 200 SA academics
An open letter, penned by the academics, to president, higher education minister and finance minister.
The millions we spend on stolen ideas
Plagiarism transgresses a university’s core values and leeches a fortune in subsidies from the state.
Students outraged at drying-up NSFAS funds
The student representative council of TUT is demanding that government make a loan to international development banks to bail out indebted students.
The shifting face of a university
Money, history and politics have continually changed ideas of what universities should be.
If everyone wins, no one is a winner
Business consultants, politicians and the media damage universities with their insular arrogance.
Sorry tale of a post-merger university mess
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s latter-day fortunes tell an indicting and page-turning story.
Government sets aside R169m for academic staff shortages
Drastic action is being taken to ensure South Africa does not run short of academics, says Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
In favour of free minds
Green movements are important for society, but they often lack a rational scientific approach and this causes more harm than good.
New rating system for academics
Academics will now receive funding based on their rating, writes Primarashni Gower.