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Researchers in the education sphere benefit from collaboration and idea-sharing. cgstock/Shutterstock

April 25, 2024

South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs

Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise, University of South Africa dan Maureen Robinson, Stellenbosch University

There’s a motivated, enthusiastic younger generation of scholars in South Africa who need support and mentoring.

April 22, 2020

Coronavirus shows the urgency of ensuring that research gets into the public domain

Dorsamy (Gansen) Pillay, National Research Foundation dan Beverley Damonse, National Research Foundation

The rapid sharing of research is so vital. In cases like the COVID-19 pandemic, it can save lives.

Obtaining a foreign PhD is seen as attractive but data suggests local alternatives shouldn’t be dismissed. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

Juni 25, 2018

Foreign doctorates are attractive – but don’t write off homegrown PhDs

Helena Barnard, University of Pretoria; Moritz Mueller, Université de Strasbourg, dan Robin Cowan, Université de Strasbourg

There’s strong evidence that, all things being equal, leading South African universities provide “world class” training at PhD level.

The National Research Foundation doesn’t have enough money for the growing number of researchers who qualify for “incentive” funding. Shutterstock

Oktober 23, 2017

Money woes force South Africa to revisit how it rewards researchers

Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria dan Kit Vaughan, University of Cape Town

South Africa’s National Research Foundation will dramatically scale back “incentive” funding to rated researchers, both those who already have a rating and those who will be rated in the future.

University lecturers must keep learning new ways to teach. Shutterstock

Mei 4, 2017

There’s pressure on academics to learn how to teach. But they need more support

Brenda Leibowitz, University of Johannesburg

It takes a combination of formal and informal learning to equip academics to become better teachers. Universities need to encourage both approaches.

Academics are under enormous pressure to publish prolifically because this generates subsidies for their universities. Shutterstock

Oktober 23, 2015

Academics must still ‘publish or perish’ under revamped research funding policy

Emanuela Carleschi, University of Johannesburg

A new policy on research outputs and funding will be introduced in South Africa in 2016. But it leaves too much unchanged from the old policy.

The Southern Africa Large Telescope in South Africa’s Karoo region is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. EPA

Mei 7, 2015

South African science is making its mark – but still has a way to go

John Butler-Adam, University of Pretoria

South African scientists and scholars produce the most significant portion of Africa’s recognised research publications.

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