While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses

Rhodes University sought and succeeded in obtaining an interdict against student protesters on Wednesday after five students were arrested on campus.

Dr Sizwe Mabizela invoked ‘giants of the liberation struggle’ in his inaugural address at Rhodes last weekend.

Rhodes University has appointed a new vice-chancellor who promises transformation, not just at student level, but in all spheres.

The number of quality maths and physical science passes achieved by the class of 2011 bodes ill for SA’s plans to create five million jobs by 2020.

Startling findings emerged when the state’s quality watchdog Umalusi revealed details about its controversial "standardisation" of the matric exams.