THE POINT: Let’s start with prioritising quality education
South Africa still Africa’s powerhouse but we must set measurable goals for substantial improvements in our education system so fourth industrial revolution does not leave us behind, writes Owen SkaeThe appeal of online exhibitions
Web can prolong life of an exhibition and promote public engagement that creates additional layers of contestation, writes Julie Taylor
Education for the elite lacks local intelligence
Silences in school curriculum on black South African history breed an economic elite with little social literacy, writes Nomalanga Mkhize
Opinion
ON THE WATER: Foresight to edify before poetic grasp of insight
Neels Blom
University’s first duty is to educate as efficiently and as effectively as possible — in English, writes Neels Blom
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- DA says state trying to ‘capture’ universities
- Rubber bullets and stun grenades used in TUT clash
- Protesters shut down campuses
- Reforms in education a plaster on a broken arm
- Schools furnished with a victory
- Why not let crime pay for tertiary study?
- Advice offices get training to deliver rights
- Various tertiary education problems need to be solved
- Student finance body to raise budget
- NSFAS will use credit act to get defaulters to pay back loans
- University security costs ‘unsustainable’
- Wits and students agree on way ahead to free education
- Cape campus suffered worst damage
- SA schools under Sadtu dominion
- Universities act to quell protest heat
- Vocational schools can slay youth unemployment
- POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Education issues to top debate
- Vice-chancellors say most students want to get academic 2016 under way
- Universities get court interdicts against protesting students
- Wits registration continues despite protest
- Students escalate no-fees campaign
- Protesters shut down two Unisa campuses
- Rhodes report advises dialogue
- University registrations continue in face of protests
- EDITORIAL: Students need new tack on fees
- Police monitor situation at Wits as registration remains suspended
- Bill targets accountability at universities
- More than 500,000 study opportunities in offing for class of 2015
- Universities plead for more subsidies as student registration begins
- Student registration at Wits suspended
- Economy is next site of student awakening
- Zuma reiterates funding pledge to National Student Financial Aid Scheme
- Pass rate not clear reflection of quality of education
- EDITORIAL: Matric results mirror SA divide
- Principals of schools with poorest results to go
- Gauteng schools take lead in bachelors passes
- Yet another poor matric pass rate blamed on tougher tests
- New curriculum dents matric pass rate
- University protests ‘have cost R150m so far’
- Group cheating plagues matric exams
- Slight drop in IEB matric results
- UJ faculty positions itself to lead the charge on machines that think
- Vice-chancellors counsel against violence
- State to offer R4.5bn to cover student financial aid scheme shortfall
- Cope blames Sadtu for ‘dire state’ of education in SA
- Plan to freeze teaching posts
- Wits registration continues despite protest
- Students escalate no-fees campaign
- Student leaders to broaden campaign to include issues around access
- So much talent to take SA forward
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