HETN urges Zuma to release Fees Commission, condemns 2018 fee increases
The Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) has urged President Jacob Zuma to release the Fees Commission report. The HETN also rejects unilateral fee increments...
School learner placement dogs the Gauteng education department
The start of every academic year in Gauteng is usually accompanied by the news that many learners are without a place in a school....
Weekly Dissident: On symbols and national heritage
In the Weekly Dissident today, Desmond Mlatha and Mphutlane wa Bofelo warn Rhodes Must Fall campaigners of the danger of using civil disobedience as...
Beyond FMF: The Do-Gooders and World-Savers
South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the past two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges, and technikons...
#FeesCommission report: How TVETs win
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions are the biggest winners according to the recommendations of the Fees Commission report. Universities will not...
The Fees Commission’s work is done, but fallists aren’t holding their...
The Fees Commission was due to complete their final report on the feasibility of free education at the end of June. On Thursday, Musa...
Beyond FMF: The first in their families to go to university
South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons...
Education MEC and St John’s community seek expulsion of racist teacher
A prestigious private boys’ school, St John’s College (SJC) in Johannesburg, has found a senior teacher guilty of numerous racist remarks directed at learners....
The sun is rising on renewable energy technologies
We find ourselves on the verge, once again, of global shifts such as migration and severe climate change among many other challenges forged as...
Protecting religion in schools protects the identities of learners
In June the South Gauteng High Court ruled that religious practices may be observed by learners and educators at public schools, but a public...
“Nothing less than free education†– Student leaders on leaked fees...
Some Student Representative Councils (SRCs) have decided to wait till the president releases the Fees Commission report rather that relying on the leak.
On Sunday,...
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...
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...
Three years on and no compensation for Limpopo family whose child...
Provincial education departments faced legal claims of up to R1.5‑billion over the past financial year, according to their annual reports.
Among the claims, some of...
Court rules that public schools cannot promote one religion over others
Six schools that believed that a case by Ogod (Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig en Demokrasie) — seeking a court order to declare it unconstitutional for...
New online platforms seek to flip the search for university funding...
The fees funding crisis in South Africa has encouraged the creation of new ways of crowdfunding and connecting students and funders. After the recent...
Committee meeting on student protest policing finds inadequately trained private security...
Greater cooperation between police and universities is needed during student protests; police and universities also need to reexamine the role of private security in...
Parents, principals will no longer decide whether learners get condoms
School governing bodies and parents will no longer be able to prevent pupils from getting condoms at schools, according to a new basic education...
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...
Why are the doors of higher learning still closed to young...
More white and Indian kids are going on to higher education today than 12 years ago, but for black and coloured kids, it’s still...
