Sen Muller
latest news & developmentsThe poverty of poor economics
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
LETTER: The murder of Prof Kamwendo at UniZulu
Kamwendo’s murder is an incident that is simply at the extreme end of a spectrum of problematic dynamics in the South African academy
Long wait for change in our varsities
Substantive transformation is central to UCT’s focus in the wake of the Rhodes statue debacle.
No replacement for ageing brains
As older academics retire, there seems to be little deliberate action to bring new blood on board.
More PhDs are not the answer
Proper human resource development and career and succession planning in academia are far more important.
Publish or perish – and damage too?
The state’s research-funding model does not serve all of academia equally well.