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4 octobre 2016

How the legacy of apartheid design is making students’ lives unsafe

By Kathryn Nel. Spatial planning from the apartheid era is coming back to haunt South Africa’s formerly black universities. More than 22 years since the country’s transition to democracy, students at these institutions are still travelling vast distances to their campuses. More...

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4 octobre 2016

If Africa grows its universities cleverly, its economies will flourish

By Sandile Swana and Emmanuel Ojo. The idea of “education for the masses” – rapidly increasing university enrolment rates – has changed the face of higher education in the past 50 years. The term “massification” has been adopted to describe it.
Universities in the US, Britain, Russia, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea lead the pack when it comes to opening their doors to more students. More...

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4 octobre 2016

How universities can use language as a force for fundamental change

By Robert John Balfour. South Africa’s universities are absorbed in debates about fee structures, free education and decolonising the curriculum.
But amid these debates – particularly on the issue of decolonisation – academia is ignoring what could be a fundamental force for change: language. More...

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4 octobre 2016

How schools use language as a way to exclude children

By Carolyn McKinney and Xolisa Guzula. Today, decisions about which language resources should count in schooling – as the language of instruction, a subject, or a legitimate language for learning – continue to be informed by the relationships between language and power. Schools and universities in post-colonial contexts still operate within the logic of coloniality. More...

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4 octobre 2016

‘Free’ higher education: unrealistic expectations, unsustainable solutions

By Damtew Teferra. Free higher education is a myth. There is no such thing anywhere in the world, even in wealthy states like Germany, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which insist that their tertiary education systems are “free”. In fact, higher education in those countries is predominantly paid for by taxpayers. More...

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4 octobre 2016

Decolonising psychology creates possibilities for social change

By Shose Kessi. The issues raised by South African university students in a new round of protests must be read as inter-related and integral to the ongoing decolonial project. More...

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3 octobre 2016

Free education is possible if South Africa moves beyond smoke and mirrors

By Salim Vally, Enver Motala, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Rasigan Maharajh and Zolisa Marawu. South Africa’s universities are once again in uproar. Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has outlined how higher education should deal with fee increments for 2017. His announcement sparked anger and a great deal of confusion. More...

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3 octobre 2016

Under-funding, not protests, is driving South African universities down global rankings

By Danie Visser. The most widely respected world university rankings have all recently published their latest results. The release of the Times Higher Education 2016-17 and Quacquarelli Symonds 2016-17 rankings have coincided with a resurgence in protests at many of South Africa’s universities. More...

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3 octobre 2016

Why has Japan’s massacre of disabled gone unnoticed? For answers, look to the past

By Rachel Adams. On July 26, 2016 a man wielding a knife broke into Tsukui Yamayuriena, a home for the disabled outside of Tokyo and brutally murdered 19 people as they slept, while injuring another 26. More...

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3 octobre 2016

How civic intelligence can teach what it means to be a citizen

By Douglas Schuler. This political season, citizens will be determining who will represent them in the government. This, of course, includes deciding who will be the next president, but also who will serve in thousands of less prominent positions. More...

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