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Completion rates for PhD courses are very low. Here are some things students, supervisors and universities can do to help support these students through to completion.
The future of education is in the clouds.
South Africa must act to halt the decline and save its universities’ well deserved global reputation of excellence.
University degrees perform the same function in 2017 as indulgences did in 1517.
This Masters degree sets a precedent in South Africa and gives universities that want to be truly inclusive a lot to think about.
There is a very real risk that South Africa’s major research projects will stumble and the whole research machine will be shut down by ongoing student protests.
Collaboration is one of the keys to making African science soar: when the continent’s universities work together, they can produce amazing results.
Many people are left floundering when they try to get working on their PhDs. In Africa, this is often because the skills they need haven’t been developed earlier in their academic careers.
The limits of fertility and an elongated academic career path are currently at odds. If the choice to bear children contributes to the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women in STEM, what can be done?
Completing a PhD is a process that takes years. There are several ways to make this a happy, productive time rather than a period of endless misery.
Doctoral studies are valued as an engine for development in Africa. If doctoral graduates are to meet this challenge, the very structure of the doctoral programme must change.
The University of Sydney has announced an overhaul of its undergraduate teaching. If achieved, some of these reforms could be revolutionary, but much of the media attention has focused on the less important aspects.
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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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