Prim Gower

There is no light side to racial prejudice.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga

The department of higher education and training is reintroducing the “outdated Nated” courses.

With the split in the education ministry, matric exams head Penny Vinjevold has quit to take up the position of superintendent- general.

Until recently, Ndlovu was South Africa’s highest-paid vice-chancellor, earning a R3,7-million package in 2007.

How do you plug the brain drain of students leaving your country to study in the United States?

Mesa has drawn on a community of scholars, researchers, teachers, students, government officials in higher education, private sector and civil society

If higher education is not prioritised, Africa’s problems won’t be solved.

Governments and heads of state in the African Union have emphasised the importance of higher education in the development of modern Africa.

Tuition fee increases at most of South Africa’s 23 public higher education institutions have been kept below 10% or did not increase at all this year.

From savage initiation rights to claims of race bias, the Potch campus is out of date and under review, writes Primarashni Gower.

Aaron Ndlovu, the vice-chancellor of Mangosuthu University of Technology, had software installed to record the phone conversations of staff members.

Top UKZN physicist Professor Nithaya Chetty, facing a disciplinary tribunal for criticising vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba in the media, has quit.

‘The current system is hampering economic growth and development’

On average a professor earns an annual package of R500 000, while junior and senior lecturers earn between R250 000 and R350 000.