Education

The essential key to SA’s liberation
The essential key to SA’s liberation
As South Africa and the world commemorate the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, Nelson Mandela University launched its year-long centenary...
Inclusive education is the future
Inclusive education is the future
Ali Moussa and Mahmoud are sixth-graders in Zanzibar. The boys are nearly blind and use recording devices and Braille machines to read. Thanks to...
Did UCT kill Bongani Mayosi?
Did UCT kill Bongani Mayosi?
Questions surrounding the role of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in the death of Professor Bongani Mayosi may appear unnecessarily dramatic...
Scientific research is SA’s future
Scientific research is SA’s future
The recently published Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans 2018 line-up offers an interesting revelation, in that at least 40% of...
Catch up with reality, Cosas
Catch up with reality, Cosas
The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) has, for the first time in its history, made daring proposals on the specifics of the content of the...
Study reveals a home away from home
Study reveals a home away from home
Turbulence at universities has accelerated in the last few years. To be sure, the pendulum swings up and down with moments of perilous high tides...
Knowledge is key to effectively running schools
Knowledge is key to effectively running schools
There can be no doubt that the high degree of autonomy given to all public schools in the South African Schools Act and exercised on their behalf...
Court tells Angie to fix schools – now
Court tells Angie to fix schools – now
“The crude and naked facts staring [at] us are that, each day, [when] the parents of these children send them to school, as they are...
Walking in Mandela’s virtual shoes
Walking in Mandela’s virtual shoes
Often a teacher will ask a class to imagine they are at a point in history. But, unless a learner has the chance to go to a historical site, or...
South African schools’ toilet facilities: A shame and a disgrace
South African schools’ toilet facilities: A shame and a disgrace
Although 41% of schools surveyed by the Water Research Commission were found to employ cleaners, only 25% of the cleaners reported that they...
Decolonised spaces must be given room
Decolonised spaces must be given room
I joined the department of psychology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in February 2011. Since then, my main teaching responsibilities have...
Black students ‘undervalued’ at UCT
Black students ‘undervalued’ at UCT
Curriculum content at the University of Cape Town sustains colonialism and working-class black students believe their knowledge is not valued.
Jail awaits if you fake your matric
Jail awaits if you fake your matric
One can buy a matric certificate for between R300 and R3 000, it has emerged.

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