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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Nedbank targets lower risk
South African lender Nedbank Group is responding to a moribund economy, indebted consumers and narrowing profit margins by pursuing customers in business and government who pose fewer risks than individual consumers. Nedbank beat out competitors in the third quarter to win the accounts of Durban, South Africa’s third-largest city, and the Ekurheleni municipality east of … [Read more...] about Nedbank targets lower risk
Violence, outages add to credit risk
SOUTH Africa’s credit risk is climbing relative to emerging-market peers after a wave of violence against foreigners soured investor sentiment already dimmed by power shortages, according to Nedbank. Credit-default swaps to protect against non-payment of South Africa’s dollar debt over the next five years climbed 19 basis points this year to 208, compared with a … [Read more...] about Violence, outages add to credit risk
Glass of water half full of risk – Independent Online
Independent OnlineJohannesburg – Elevated levels of two potentially harmful herbicides have been detected in Joburg’s drinking water, while an anti-convulsant and mood-stabilising drug may taint Bloemfontein’s water supply. This is according to an extensive national … …read more Via: Johannesburg Google News MyJHB Read more on … [Read more...] about Glass of water half full of risk – Independent Online
Patients at risk as labs threaten to close – Independent Online
Independent OnlineINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS. Last Wednesday, the laboratory service s chief executive, Sagie Pillay, wrote a letter informing his staff that services to the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng clinics would be suspended. File picture: Jennifer Bruce. Johannesburg -. …read more Via: Johannesburg Google News MyJHB Read more on MyJHB. Join the fun: Add Your … [Read more...] about Patients at risk as labs threaten to close – Independent Online
