By Raymond Asare Tutu. What happens when you pair an African academic living in the diaspora with one who is teaching and conducting research on the continent. More...

By Philip Machanick. During the 1980s as an academic at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, I found myself caught between police and protesters – if “caught” applies to a deliberate insertion. I was a member of a peacekeeping group headed by then deputy vice-chancellor Mervyn Shear. More...

By George Hull. Some people believe that student loans are little more than a revived form of colonial indenture. More...

By Kershney Naidoo. It’s been 17 years since I embarked on my journey to becoming an academic. Academia seemed to be an exciting but simultaneously stable space.
Globally, this perception is changing. Academia is no longer as popular a career choice as it was a few decades ago. More...

By Penelope Andrews. Universities have an obligation to produce leaders, whether in their academic disciplines, chosen professions or in the wider society, including in government and civil society. More...

By David Everatt. The polarising effects of #FeesMustFall are now pervasive in the academy, and probably beyond. Academics turn on each other, as do their schools and faculties. More...

By Karin Brodie. At a time when decolonisation, part of which involves changing the content of what’s taught, is dominating debate at many universities, the discipline of mathematics presents an interesting case. More...

By Shireen Motala. Task teams, ministerial committees, judicial commissions: these are just some of the bodies that have been set up to tackle South Africa’s higher education funding crisis since 2011. More...