Despite some positive shifts, the staffing situation at public higher education institutions remains polarised in terms of race and gender.
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Lecturers need to be adept at both the theories of online learning and the technology used to do it.
Smart, capable students struggled to navigate cultural and language norms in university accounting classrooms.
Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
A good supervisor can make all the difference for a PhD candidate on their tough academic journey.
Student teachers saw certain incidents in their classrooms as a learning process that caused them to act, respond and reflect so they could maintain quality teaching.
In some ways, perhaps Morrison is even more relevant in South African universities today than she’s ever been.
More than ever, South African universities need a new social contract that charts a way forward and begins to heal divisions.
Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
Global university rankings are based on a snapshot of institutional performance. A gain by one institution is a loss by another.
Despite a relatively slow start, South Africa can speed up its implementation of the SDGs.
Writing groups provide a space where the “rules of the game” of academia become clear.
Curriculum structure and flexibility can play a crucial role in students’ progression and success.
Formal, accessible academic advice systems can help university graduation rates.
Social class plays a huge role in people’s experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
The ethical and political reasons to avoid free higher education are unambiguous.
In many respects, President Jacob Zuma’s free higher education proposal in South Africa is the worst kind of populism.
Alternative scenarios for tertiary funding in South Africa are set out in a completely separate report from the Davis Tax Committee drawing from work done by the higher education department.
Family support, being valued in their own homes and enjoying strong support from their social structures helped instill lesbians in a conservative South African province with a strong sense of self.
If there’s a general sense that academic publication is about knowledge dissemination rather than meeting performance targets, academics and universities become less vulnerable to predatory journals.
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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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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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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Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University
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Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
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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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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 of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Chair- Curriculum Studies, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in Higher Education Studies, University of Cape Town
