SA students close down two campuses, more to join, protesting fee increase
A South African student organisation said it may shut down campuses across the country in protest against planned fee increases for 2017.
A South African student organisation said it may shut down campuses across the country in protest against planned fee increases for 2017.
It has emerged that the University of KwaZulu-Natal is considering a plan to make laptop computers compulsory for all first and second-year students.
“It is certainly victory to the students today whose express intention was to disrupt the Mini Budget Parliament speech. They succeeded.”
Protesting University of Cape Town students have started making their way to Parliament ahead of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s Mini Budget.
South Africa’s 14 universities have mostly slipped on the QS University Rankings, which compares the Top 400 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Constantine Chiwenga, a close ally of Robert Mugabe, has been awarded a doctorate by the University of KwaZulu Natal, a diamond company revealed on Sunday.
The University of Cape Town has excelled, along with other South African tertiary institutions, in the QS World University Rankings for 2015.
Paralysed by a stray bullet in the midst of a hijacking, Bright Nzuza thought he would never finish matric, let alone complete a degree in marketing.
“More than a century after his death, Cecil John Rhodes finds ‘himself’ in a crate, with a plastic bag wrapped around his face. He is, of course, not at all bothered by this.” Read more on Gerhard Papenfus’ thoughts on the removal of the Rhodes statue. Well worth a read.
Matric maths teachers in KwaZulu-Natal performed dismally when tested with a past matric maths paper, The Star reported on Monday. Research was carried out with 253 teachers in the province to investigate their knowledge of the subject they are teaching. Teachers got an average mark of 57 percent, and a quarter of them got below … Read more