14.6 C
Johannesburg
Saturday, March 29, 2025

CATEGORY

Opinion

Free higher education in South Africa: cutting through the lies and statistics

Seán Mfundza Muller Public discussion about higher education funding in South Africa has been beset by numerous fictions and misunderstandings since the Fees Must Fall...

Some fear that e-learning will erode African knowledge. This isn’t true.

James Njenga When people discuss the challenges related to e-learning (the use of electronic technology to facilitate learning), they tend to focus on access. This...

Why African board games should be introduced into the classroom

Rebecca Y. Bayeck When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know,...

Matric results: Is our education system delivering? No, say experts.

Thabo Mohlala ANALYSIS The 2017 matric results have elicited animated debates and a wide range of views from various political parties, teacher unions and some education...

Here’s why South Africa has a reading crisis and what can be done about it

Peter Rule The teacher stands in front of her Grade 4 class. The 45 nine and ten-year-olds are crammed together at desks, huddled over shared...

How collaboration between established and disadvantaged schools can better South Africa’s education system

Alan Stuart I was the HOD Intermediate Phase at John Wesley School, connected to Pinetown Methodist Church near Durban. John Wesley Pinetown had been established...

The resilience of South Africa’s universities is being tested to the limit

Professor Ahmed Bawa Universities are resilient institutions. Even so, in the face of ongoing instability and deepening underfunding, South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are...

Classroom Matters: The global education sector needs innovation desperately

Classroom Matters Xolani Majola In this, the first in a series of articles on Classroom Matters, I am trying to highlight the multiplicity of issues attached to...

Zuma will defiantly launch the alternative funding plan as his legacy project

Thabo Mohlala ANALYSIS The release of the Heher Commission report on the funding of tertiary education by President Jacob Zuma yesterday has come late in the...

Why developing countries are particularly vulnerable to predatory journals

Sioux McKenna Every day academics wade through emails riddled with spelling errors promising almost immediate publication of their research. These publications assure the reader that...

Latest articles

- Advertisement -spot_img
Ads Blocker Image Powered by Code Help Pro

Ads Blocker Detected!!!

We have detected that you are using extensions to block ads. Please support us by disabling these ads blocker.