Universities are losing sight of their role as places of teaching and learning. Instead, they are becoming hugely stressed business enterprises. ShutterstockUniversities around the world have become stressed business enterprises. Funding considerations now dominate institutional strategy. This commercialisation is often driven by falling government subsidies and funding … [Read more...] about South Africa’s universities risk becoming bureaucratic degree factories | The Conversation
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South Africa is in danger of becoming a radicalised society – again | The Conversation
Supporters of the Economic Freedom Fighters protesting outside the Johannesburg stock exchange. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko South Africa is increasingly displaying evidence of radicalism, racialised rhetoric and general disenchantment. There are similarities between what’s happening today and the mood in South Africa in the 1940s – the results of which altered the country’s course. … [Read more...] about South Africa is in danger of becoming a radicalised society – again | The Conversation
University students are becoming a new kind of democratic citizen | The Conversation
21 years into democracy, are South Africa's university students showing other citizens how best to hold the state accountable? EPA/Ihsaan Haffejee If one tracks South African student activities in 2015 it becomes apparent that a new politics is bubbling below the surface of academic life. This first emerged with the #RhodesMustFall and #OpenStellenbosch protests, followed … [Read more...] about University students are becoming a new kind of democratic citizen | The Conversation
