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Lobby group FOR SA is backed by the US Christian right. Its latest target is South Africa’s increasingly inclusive sex education lesson plans.
It’s easy to report on access and inputs, but much more difficult to achieve educational quality and meaningful outcomes.
The ethical and political reasons to avoid free higher education are unambiguous.
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
Cuba used three major methods to revolutionise its education system from the 1960s. The hard work has paid off and the system holds many lessons for other countries.
What happens when a school doesn’t have many resources but teachers and the principal really listen to learners’ ideas and fears? The results, research finds, can be remarkable.
Higher education institutions that only hire academics from their own backyards simply cannot compete in this era of the global university.
Once they graduate, they’ll educate South Africans of all race groups – so what happens when student teachers don’t mix across racial lines? A digital storytelling project is bridging gaps.
The beginning of the academic year in South Africa is the most stressful time for parents of children who come from poor, rural and working class backgrounds. This when they have to confront the difficult…
Historical prestige is not the only reason why British universities do well at attracting international students – but it helps. Victorian antecedents hint at continuity and esteem. Strong teaching, good…
In South Africa, as in many countries, the release of senior secondary school exam results, referred to locally as “the Matric”, causes a media furore every year. At 18-years-old, students either pass…
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Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading
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Faculty member, Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand
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Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor in Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Teaching Practice Coordinator, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher: Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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