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AFTER 20 years of teaching academic writing to both native speakers and English language learners, I can attest that at some point, just about...

JEAN-PHILLIPE AYOTTE-BEAUDET Universities have faced major planning challenges due to Covid-19. While there has been significant media coverage about universities offering students online learning, what...

UNIVERSITY of Zululand's Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Mashupye Ratale Kgaphola, shares his views on transformation in South Africa's higher education. The Minister...

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA IF WE are to ensure that the recovery of our economy and society in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is meaningful, then...

PROFESSOR THANDWA MTHEMBU I have been asked to share some reflections on the topic: What kind of leadership is required to reform our country? At this...

IN THREE days’ time the matric class of 2020 will sit for the National Senior Certificate examinations. It is the culmination of twelve years...

IN A taxi on the freeway, windows are sweating and people are squeezed inside almost to a point of suffocating. A red Porsche passes...

WHEN we take a brief look at the history of education, we know that it did not evolve as an end in itself, but...

DR SHIRLEY MAHLASE  THE previous three industrial revolutions leave behind intergenerational, socio-political, economic, environmental, technological legacies in their structures, upon which the Fourth Industrial Revolution...

Monday, 5 October 2020 marks the annual United Nations’ (UN) World Teachers’ Day to celebrate one of the world’s most essential professions, teaching. UNESCO’s...