Agricultural colleges move chairs
Cabinet has approved the integration of South Africa’s agricultural colleges into the Department of Higher Education and Training. Cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams said cabinet had...
Yolanda Dyantyi takes on Rhodes
Former Rhodes University student Yolanda Dyantyi (pictured) is willing to take her fight to be readmitted as a student all the way to the...
Department of Education spends close to R1 billion providing water tanks,...
The Department of Basic Education has spent about R800-million providing water and mobile toilets to schools across the country since the outbreak of the...
Government has identified 6 universities as high risk
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande said his department has identified six public universities as high risk of COVID-19. According to a...
High court rules in favour of child a with special needs.
The Free State departments of education, health and social development were left with an egg on the face after the high court ordered them...
Battle for soul of Afrikaans at SA universities rages
The battle for the soul of Afrikaans at South Africa’s universities is raging, with the University of Stellenbosch (SU) the latest to be backed...
‘Number of female VCs is low’
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande this week decried the low number of female vice-chancellors (VCs) in public universities, saying more must be done to...
2 in 5 schools in the world lacked basic handwashing facilities...
As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 percent of schools around the...
NWU launches R463m housing project
The North-West University (NWU) is set to be home to a new 1 728-bed facility on its Mahikeng campus – a project expected to...
Victory for pupils with disabilities
The Pretoria High Court last week handed down an order (by consent), ordering the department of Basic Education (DBE) to make provision for all...
