“Matric is the time to have fun and to push to...
School exams are finally over and matriculants are celebrating the festive season craze. The Daily Vox spoke to school-leavers to find out what their...
The new ANC top six in a dilemma with Zuma’s free...
On Monday night, the African National Congress (ANC) finally concluded the election of the party top six. Cyril Ramaphosa, the deputy president of South...
“Free education is possible, but implementing it in four weeks is...
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of free education for the poor came as a shock to many South Africans. Some political analysts in particular interpreted...
How Zuma’s free education plan will affect NSFAS and universities in...
President Jacob Zuma’s sudden announcement of a new free higher education policy came as a surprise, not the least because it came just as...
Zuma’s free education plan will dump the costs onto academics
President Zuma dropped the bomb of all bombs on the FeesMustFall question on Saturday, declaring free and state-subsidised tertiary education. While the decision has...
“Zuma’s free education plan impossible to implement” – analysts
On Saturday the presidency announced its resolutions on the funding of the higher education and training sector. It called for what is essentially a...
Zuma’s free education announcement cautiously welcomed by student leaders
On Saturday, the Presidency announced a new higher education policy, which promised free education for TVET students, and a wide-ranging grant system for poor...
Betrayal: a poem on ‘unappointable’ black women in academia
On 9 December, the Council of the University of Cape Town appointed Lis Lange to the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC): Teaching and...
A luta continua at the University Currently Known As Rhodes
On 6 December, the Council of the University Currently Known As Rhodes (UCKAR) publicly announced that it would not be changing the institution's name,...
The startling costs of funding the average South African family’s education
Financial services firm Discovery Life recently announced that the costs of sending your children to private school are rapidly increasing, at a rate of...
Wits University medical school disputes claims it is maliciously failing black...
Students at the University of Witwatersrand’s medical school have accused the school of failing black students and accepting bribes to pass certain white students....
South African matrics finish school on a heartwarming note
Matric learners are recognising the financial constraints amongst their peers and are selflessly donating their schooling belongings to relieve this. The last of the...
This ex-convict needs help to keep vulnerable young people out of...
Bennett Mahlangu is a 41-year-old ex-convict from Vlakfontein, in the south of Johannesburg. Mahlangu was arrested when he was 18 for murder and housebreaking...
How the historically disadvantaged Walter Sisulu University lost the right to...
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) released its final outcomes of the national review of law programmes on 9 November, and one university has...
Inequality of yesteryear breeds inequality in SA’s future job markets
South Africa's education system is considered to be one of the worst in the world. A 2015 study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
Disappointed but not surprised: the shortcomings of the Fees Commission report
The Fees Must Fall movement emerged in 2015 through university students who felt that higher education was an inalienable right no one should pay...
We did not ask for loans, that is not free education...
Student Representative Councils (SRCs) from some universities across the country are rejecting the recommendations made by the Fees Commission report on the funding of...
Universities are still studying the Fees Commission report
South African universities have welcomed the release of the Heher Commission report but are still deliberating its 750 pages before announcing what this means...
Fees Commission report calls for removal of application and registration fees
The Fees Commission report found that while fee-free education across the board is fiscally irresponsible, doing away with application and registration fees isn’t.
South Africans...
Why educating girl children is the key to economic growth in...
Educating Africa's girl children is more urgent than ever as the continent fast approaches a potential stage of social and economic development called a...
