Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education has pledged to restore stability at the embattled University of Fort Hare (UFH) and assured students that it will work toward a resolution with university management.
Academic activities at the University of the Free State (UFS) have been brought to a standstill as students continue their protest against the university’s decision to scrap the provisional registration system from next year.
The Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA) is on a path to recovery following the appointment of Oupa Dithaba Nkoane as its new administrator.
A University of Fort Hare alumna, Mbali Silimela, has written to National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola, making damning allegations of corruption, fraud, and abuse of power against the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, and other senior officials.
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said on Saturday that the violent incidents at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape, were acts of criminality, not protest.
Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela has welcomed the appointment of new Accounting Authorities (AAs) across all 21 Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs), as a critical milestone expected to restore stability, improve governance, and sharpen the focus of SETAs on national skills priorities.
Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, on Monday expressed deep concern over delays in stipend payments to Education Assistants employed through the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI).
The University of South Africa (Unisa) has become the focal point of entrepreneurial discourse this week as it hosts the two-day Studentpreneurs Indaba, convened under the banner of the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) initiative.
