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....
South African universities are training their gaze on the United States....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Journalist Abra Barbier on journalism in South Africa in 2020
The experienced journalist opened up in her private capacity on the turmoil in the industry.
What is your background?
I started out as an intern in...
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...
Two student teachers tell us about the path to becoming a...
The national lockdown hit pause on schooling and learning for a while. As lockdown restrictions eased, schools and higher education resumed. Many learners had...
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...
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...
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...
UKZN: Poor Black Students Still Face Harsh Discrimination
"We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe." - Frantz Fanon
Fanon tells us that we revolt simply because we...
The Mbegu Platform: Helping The Youth Find Solutions To Problems In...
South Africa is failing its youth - particularly its poor youth. Despite the ability of young people to creatively pose solutions to the problems...
Meet the girl who defied the odds and aced matric with...
Editor's note: This article and the accompanying image have been removed at the request of the matriculant’s family.
Walter Sisulu Uni Refutes Terrible Living Conditions Claims
Some Walter Sisulu University students at the Ibika Campus in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, say the living conditions in their residences are appalling. They claim...
A foray into the messy world of Fees Must Fall politicking
Behind one of the many buildings that dotted the Eskom Learning Centre in Midrand, a huge white marquee had been erected for the Higher...
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...
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...
This is how champion teachers are helping learners return to school...
Tefo Gaebetse and Frederick Ocansey — Champion Teachers in the Yethu network in the Northern Cape have prevented not one but four learners from dropping...
#TUTvoices: Students open up about why they want to study
On Thursday the Daily Vox visited Tshwane University of Technology Pretoria campus to chat to current and prospective students to find out about how...
