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The University of Cape Town (UCT) council has received a new complaint against embattled vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng from suspended executive director for communication and marketing Gerda Kruger.

UCT council receives new claim from Kruger against vice-chancellor Phakeng

Meeting postponed to January as Phakeng faces mounting opposition to her leadership at the divided campus, including accusations of flouting governance processes

insider said the SACP sought to have its chairperson, Blade Nzimande, remain a cabinet minister.

UCT crisis: Black academics and staff want Minister Blade Nzimande to intervene

The university is being torn by a crisis of governance which has seen growing antipathy to vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s leadership

Complicated: The inquiry into the university’s vice-chancellor and the university council’s chairperson is tied to reasons the former deputy vice-chancellor of teaching and learning, Lis Lange, left the university.

UCT saga continues as inquiry into vice-chancellor takes shape

The former deputy at the centre of the row was accused of misrepresenting her credentials

The University of Cape Town (UCT) council has received a new complaint against embattled vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng from suspended executive director for communication and marketing Gerda Kruger.

R27m: Cost to remove UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng

She is accused of flouting governance processes, along with council chair Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly regarding the exit of deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange

#FeesMustFall cost 18 varsities more than R460m in damage to property alone.

Party political meddling threatens future of universities

Campuses elsewhere in Africa have seen the damage done by student activism influenced by political parties, a matter that has raised concern at South Africa’s higher education…

Controversies on tertiary policies deriving from Kader Asmal’s education ministry a decade ago remain unresolved

Differentiation cannot work with one-size-fits-all approach

The department’s proposal in this regard gives only variations on a homogenous system.

Wanted: A new student politics

The work-in-progress of liberation requires students to muster a daily heroism.

The trouble with transformation

We need to understand why we have failed the intellectual, ethical challenge, writes <b>Lis Lange</b>.

Examining higher education

The HEQC has audited 26 higher education institutions, 15 of them public, since the inception of the institutional audits in 2004.

Has it been worth it?

Twenty audits have been conducted by the higher education quality committee so far and have required an enormous amount of work from higher education institutions. They have had…

Keeping an eye on standards at universities

Three years ago the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education was the subject of attention following the closure of 15 MBA degrees offered by public…