Harassment, Scuffles Break Out At Wits Hunger Strike
The situation at Wits University is tense on Tuesday morning. There have been clashes between students and private security in Solomon House where students...
UFS withdraws private security, CPUT justifies it, and UCT heads to...
#FeesMustFall protests continued at the University of the Free State (UFS), University of Cape Town (UCT), and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). While...
Government Must Force Universities To Transform
It's been 22 years since the passing of Higher Education Act, Act 101 of 1997 and Education White Paper 3: A Programme for the...
Here’s how we can achieve free higher education by 2019
Professor ARI SITAS believes free tertiary education is possible for students in South Africa and should be implemented by 2019. Sitas answers six questions...
A letter to the first years who carry burdens heavier than...
Iviwe Fakela, a medical student at the University of Cape Town, has some words of encouragement for incoming first-year university students, especially those who...
Frustrations as DUT strike enters second week
Students at the Durban University of Technology have raised concerns as the staff continue to protest over a wage dispute.
Registration season has begun and...
Elections Live Blog (09/05)
Welcome to the second day of The Daily Vox's elections live blog. We’re bringing you live updates as votes are counted. We'll mostly be...
How Cape universities are planning for water restrictions and #DayZero
Universities in Cape Town have a predicament on their hands. They have to somehow facilitate thousands of students on their premises in a time...
OPINION: Reimagining a schooling culture of care
Since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, there have been renewed calls to re-imagine education. In doing so, we must begin to engage with...
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...
Med students at University of Zimbabwe evicted for protesting 100% fee...
Hundreds of protesting medical students brought the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to a standstill last week as they demonstrated against a fee hike that...
Four ways you can put the lit back in literacy
September is International Literacy Month. According to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), 750 million people around the world remain illiterate,...
Our schools need to teach teenagers about homosexuality
Despite the protection provided by the South African Constitution, victimisation and bullying of LGBTQIA+ students in schools is a prevalent issue that the department...
What To Expect At The 2018 Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival
Moments Entertainment are the company who are responsible for the Nelson Mandela Children's Film Festival (NMCFF) which will be taking place over the weekend...
Right Of Reply: SACAP Response To Luke Sadler’s Article
On 30 May 2018, The Daily Vox published an opinion piece about a LGBTQIA+ student's experience of the South African College of Applied Psychology's...
USAf CEO: the new funding system for higher education is a...
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of free education does not mean that South African tertiary students have free education, but it does make education more...
Why now is the time for #FeesMustFall 2017
The Fees Must Fall movement would do itself and the country a great service to derive inspiration, in these unpredictable times, from the Latin...
DUT Strike: “We Do Want To Go Back To Work…â€
On Tuesday, 27 February, the deputy minister for higher education and training Buti Manamela met with the Durban University of Technology (DUT) management as...
#DecoloniseSchooling: we need to talk about the violence “elite” schools perpetuate
#StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh has reopened a can of worms for many of us who attended private and ex-model C schools. If I'm honest, this was likely...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s young children are facing a developmental crisis
It's well established that when children have access to high quality early childhood development (ECD), they are more likely to break the cycle of...
