South Africa’s higher education sector is dramatically underfunded. Polite conversations between vice-chancellors and the government have failed. It’s time the voices of student activists was heard.
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Fee protests have shut down a number of South African university campuses. The question is, how should universities balance fee increases with their other obligations?
Universities need to change to become more equitable learning spaces. But what’s the best way to measure their transformation, identify gaps and emphasise successes?
Could targeted, specific leadership development help university deans become the kinds of managers South African universities need?
It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?
There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
The news that African universities will soon be ranked has generated a great deal of hype. But the initiative seems likely to be doomed from the start.
India has learned valuable lessons about language and bodies of knowledge that could be applied in South Africa’s universities.
The furore around freedom of sexual orientation vs religious freedom at a South African university should lead to deeper thinking about Christianity’s historical role in promoting liberalism.
There are a number of ways to improve the experience that student teachers have while completing their compulsory practical period in a school.
Data from the National Benchmark Test can be used by universities to support students who lag behind in academic literacy.
Nelson Mandela called education “the most powerful weapon with which you can change the world”. How can universities bring his words to life?
It’s not just the content of South Africa’s university curricula that needs to be re-examined. The country’s degree structure should be reconsidered, too.
There are compelling educational reasons to employ more black academics in universities and to give them all the support they’ll need to become professors.
How do lesbian, bisexual and gay students experience life in a South African university residence? Sadly, with a great deal of fear.
Universities largely fail to acknowledge the way their modes of teaching and learning are culturally, socially and politically embedded. Can this be fixed?
South Africa is a popular destination for international students - especially those from the SADC region. Will xenophobia keep them away?
South African scientists and scholars produce the most significant portion of Africa’s recognised research publications.
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University
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Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Higher Education Studies. Head of Department of the Centre for Higher Education, Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University
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Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), Carleton University
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Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
