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How to ensure a sustainable student funding scheme

The higher education sector is at a critical crossroads as it adapts to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The local context demands that universities engage in a way that continues....

A Transformative Milestone: Celebrating Women’s Month with the Tenth Female Vice-Chancellor in South Africa

For many years, the average number of female vice-chancellors in South Africa remained at six....

Fixing Higher Education Rot: Tough Road Ahead for Buti Manamela

Removing Dr Nobuhle Nkabane, just before National Women’s Month, was poor timing. Her predecessor, Dr Blade Nzimande, whose hapless legacy on tertiary education is unfolding horribly, was undeser....

Universities’ commitment to social justice in spotlight

Higher education institutions in the 21st century must leave their ivory towers to form diverse democratic partnerships with other institutions and stakeholders, locally and globally, as agents....

First woman VC at SA’s only township university eager to start

The first female vice-chancellor in 45 years at South Africa’s only township-based university, Professor Nokuthula Sibiya, says her tough upbringing has prepared her for the rough road ahead...

Incoming vice-chancellor reflects on transformation’s lessons

When he formally assumes the position of vice-chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in January 2025, applied linguist, postcolonial literary critic and educationist Professor....

University of Pretoria gets new VC. His hallmark is consensus

Seven years after being welcomed to lead a campus in the judicial heartland of South Africa, Professor Francis William Petersen, the vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS), is moving....

HE project set on revolutionising entrepreneurship education

The CEO of the Technological Higher Education Network South Africa (THENSA), Professor Henk de Jager, has high hopes about changing the gloomy narrative around unemployment in the South....

Groundbreaking SADC project on entrepreneurship education

Tertiary education institutions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, to initiate collaborat....

Education system in urgent need of leaders with integrity

When the story of education in 2024 goes down, the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act will dominate.

However, what must not be forgotten is the ineptitude and mismanage....

Internationalisation experts debate approaches to war in Gaza

The rebuilding of higher education in Palestine amid the ongoing war in Gaza was a prominent discussion point at the 26th annual International Education....

New national commission needed to probe state of higher education – Expert

AS SOUTH Africa prepares to celebrate 30 years of democracy, Professor Jairam Reddy, one of the architects behind the founding vision of tertiary education....

Efficiency, public trust and leadership on USAf’s radar

Despite ongoing controversy over South Africa’s troubled National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s (NSFAS) potentially tumultuous start to the 2024 academic....

Achille Mbembe becomes Africa’s first Holberg Prize laureate

Professor Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian-born scholar and an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, is the first African....

Men call the shots in higher education throughout Africa

A day before the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, African education experts spoke about the critical challenge of keep....