The burning questions on #FreeEducation government needs to answer
Since the announcement by President Jacob Zuma in December of free education for the poor and working class, there’s been a lot of confusion...
EFFSC plans to shut down Unisa’s Joburg centre until demands are...
The University of South Africa (Unisa) EFF Student Command (EFFSC) said it is planning to fully shut down the Unisa Johannesburg Regional Services Centre...
Covid-19: Education’s Moment Of Enlightenment
Here's a question: You have 2 options presented to you right now; live or learn! Which do you choose?
Hopefully, 100% of respondents will choose...
Decolonised Education Means Giving Poor Students Fair Use Of Textbooks
We need to update our copyright laws to allow poor students fair use rights of textbooks, which remain prohibitively expensive for most, writes THABISO...
Decolonial School ‘POC’ Supper Had No White People Despite Backlash
The Decolonial School hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has received mass attention over the last week. This attention, however, had very...
Dear Adam Habib, I’m sorry some tweets hurt your feelings
Dear Professor Habib
Twitter is an interesting platform. It allows a university, such as yours, to communicate with students in a slightly more casual way...
Graduate student unions have a role to play in the battle...
As shrinking higher education budgets leave staff and precarious workers in a bitter battle to hold ground, we must make space for graduate student...
So, what’s the best way to teach children about the history...
A private school in Johannesburg has clarified accusations that it had forced black students to carry a dompas as part of a school project.
Nandi...
Charlotte Giese On How To Let Children Tell Their Own Stories...
Children's cinema brings learning opportunities to countries like South Africa - where the education system is in crisis, and most young school-leavers aren't literate...
Why are our schools unsafe for LGBTQI+ children?
LGBTQI+ South Africans face discrimination on a daily basis, despite constitutional protections. Whether they are at school, out shopping for groceries or being denied...
Should NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o have asked white people to leave his...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of Africa’s most influential and celebrated scholars of decolonialism. His series of public lectures taking place at universities around...
“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...
KZN SRCs Slam New NSFAS TV Show
“The only way that NSFAS will ever assist students with information is by doing visits to disadvantaged schools in rural areas, and do programmes...
Here are your initial university payments for 2018
South African students are going back to university in the coming weeks and registration is currently underway. Fees have not yet fallen and many...
Pietermaritzburg Girls High pupil suspended pending investigation into racist incident
The KwaZulu-Natal department of education (DoE) confirmed on Tuesday that the pupil who allegedly used the k-word to describe black pupils at Pietermaritzburg Girls...
How To Improve Basic Education
Looking at the results by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which were released...
Report highlights what young people need from the Basic Education Employment...
Young people who take part into the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI) need a focus on relevant and transferrable skills, workplace mentorship, contract periods and...
Vodacom makes access to university websites free for staff and students
Good news for students and staff of universities in South Africa. If you’re a Vodacom subscriber, you can access online university portals for free....
Dismissed student teachers suspicious of ‘untrustworthy’ education NPO
A group of teaching students in Cape Town are accusing education non-profit organisation (NPO) Numeric of exaggerating its relationship with the department of basic...
DUT Students: The SRC Has Sold Us Out
Some students at the Durban University of Technology have expressed concerns over an ongoing NSFAS protest, accusing the student representative council (SRC) of using...
