Academic Standards
latest news & developments
The gap year
Taking a gap after school can be the best possible way for students to prepare for their future and find their feet
Better standards and guidelines can bolster research literature reviews
Researchers should try to make their literature reviews as reliable as possible and adhere to strict standards
Matric marks adjusted only if necessary
Standardisation eliminates discrepancies that have nothing to do with pupils’ abilities.
Forget plagiarism: There’s a new and bigger threat to academic integrity
Weeding out student essays from paper mills will require work by established academia and a renewed commitment to integrity from varsity communities.
Universities ‘look beyond the potholes’
It is more urgent to improve lecturers’ teaching skills than to raise funds and develop new courses.
Whose knowledge is it anyway?
We need to assess whether the country’s education institutions have succeeded in eliminating the legacy of social exclusion.
Common sense fails our students
Outdated models of academic support still persist in universities.
UCT pops up on global varsity list
After global rankings last week put only one SA university in its top 200 — UCT — a second set of rankings this week also singled out UCT.