Deepening inequality is the high price students will pay for free education
Social change has its own dynamic. This makes it an unpredictable, uncontrollable and unknowable force – one with often unintended consequences.
Primary Results
South African universities need to rethink how they invest their millions
Universities have the power to transform society not just through how they operate their campuses, but also through how they invest their endowments and pensions funds.
A regulatory tweak could unlock billions for South African student fees
Pension fund managers must consider environmental, social and governance issues when making investment decisions. The student funding crisis is a perfect example of a social issue.
South Africa’s universities risk becoming bureaucratic degree factories
When funding imperatives dominate universities’ strategies, higher education loses sight of the work it ought to be doing: developing graduates who can make a real difference in the world.
Red tape is alienating academics from their own research and work
Bureaucracy is necessary to manage large institutions. But it can also alienate researchers from their field or discipline.
South Africa’s economy would take a knock if starved of new graduates
Economic models suggest that South Africa’s GDP would fall, inequality would deepen and unemployment would rise if university graduates don’t enter the labour market in 2017.
Why South Africans should be worried by ANC talk of a ‘colour revolution’
South Africa’s governing party is invoking concepts and emulating strategies first developed by authoritarian regimes in Eurasia.
Free college proposals should include private colleges
The ‘free college’ proposals being floated by 2020 presidential candidates don’t include private colleges. A higher education scholar asks why, especially since privates have higher graduation rates.
Onkgopotse Tiro: revolutionary who paid a heavy price for shaking apartheid to its core
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
South African students and universities may now be trapped in a cycle of conflict
South African students have won a pyrrhic victory in their battle for free university education. Will students and their institutions ever be able to interact without violent conflict again?
Secondary Results
