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OPINION| Are internships the way to address unemployment?

WE close Youth Month on a sad note. Twenty-one young people lost their lives at Enyobeni Tavern in East London. Events like this remind...

UCT vice-chancellor: An incomplete degree should not end dreams of a career

MAMOKGATHEI PHAKENG A 2019 study revealed that 78% of university students could not complete their three-year degrees in the allotted time. In fact, over...

OPINION| ‘Universities must be key drivers of change on our continent’ – Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe on Africa Day

PROFESSOR TAWANA KUPE| UP Africa Day, commemorated annually on 25 May, this year marks 59 years since the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was born....

OPINION| Black men take a page out of their own oppression to marginalise black women in higher education

NOMBULELO SHANGE| IF black men have faced the worst of fates, then black women have also placed their lives and bodies on the line. Black...

Opinion| University of Cape Town’s extreme reversal of historic racial preferences – John Kane-Berman

JOHN KANE-BERMAN| IN today’s climate, it takes courage for an academic to speak out publicly against his university’s racial preferencing policies. That, however, is...

Opinion| Africa’s untapped youth must drive the continent’s Fourth Industrial Revolution

HELEN SWINGLER COVID-19 can do for Africa’s information technology sector what Y2K, or the Millennium bug, did for India’s. India used the global crisis,...

Mamokgethi Phakeng | To build our country, we need to build each other

MAMOKGETHI PHAKENG| JUST a few days ago, on 9 March 2022, the World Bank confirmed what most of us already knew: that South Africa...

South African universities are training their gaze on the United States. Why it matters

Three academic institutions in Africa have established units dedicated to the study of the United States. They are University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for...

Student-centrism is about reorienting the university and emancipating it from itself and its dogmas – Luthando Jack

THE Student-centred Universities session of the 2nd Higher Education Conference culminated in a discussion during which Mr Luthando Jack, Dean of Students at Nelson Mandela University,...

OPINION| Pass rates for school leavers in South Africa are failing students and universities

Dr ZAMOKUHLE MBANDLWA SOUTH Africa’s current basic education system and the grading standard produce poor academic outcomes. Because of this, students exiting high school don’t...

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