By . Academics are trying to rid South Africa’s universities of the procedures, values, norms, practices, thinking, beliefs and choices that mark anything non-European and not white as inferior. More...
27 août 2016
27 août 2016
South African academics ask Zuma to ‘stop the war’ on finance minister
By . South Africa’s minister of finance Pravin Gordhan is again on a collision course with the country’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations. The row has unsettled the country’s already shaky currency, the rand. It’s also prompted a group of senior academics from nine universities to pen an open letter. The letter, which first appeared on local news site the Rand Daily Mail, is republished below. More...
27 août 2016
Why it’s hard for adults to learn a second language
By . As a young adult in college, I decided to learn Japanese. My father’s family is from Japan, and I wanted to travel there someday. More...
27 août 2016
Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education
By . As of Aug. 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings in Texas.
It’s already had an impact on me as professor of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks to this law, I set foot in a federal court building for the first time. More...
27 août 2016
Decolonisation debate is a chance to rethink the role of universities
By . When South African students launched the “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign in 2015, one of their major demands was that the university curriculum be decolonised. This seems to have fallen off the agenda, overtaken by the push for free higher education. More...
27 août 2016
Why free education is a folly in an unequal society
By . The idea of free higher public education, or what student activists have termed “#FeesMustFall”, is appealing. It is also, however, inherently regressive in societies and countries where massive social and economic inequities abound. More...
27 août 2016
Ranking African universities: hypocrisy, impunity and complicity
By . Nearly ten years ago I confronted an expert about what she claimed was an “African phenomenon” in higher education. She was reluctant to provide me with the raw data upon which this “phenomenon” was premised, so I vigorously contested her claim. More...
27 août 2016
African philosophy of education: a powerful arrow in universities’ bow
By . To understand what an African philosophy of education is and why it’s so important, consider the role that universities should play in any society. More...
27 août 2016
How online courses can bring the world into Africa’s classrooms
By . I am an anthropologist with a special interest in establishing the field of the medical humanities. This emerging field is wide open for producing new knowledge about the history and culture of medical practices. It focuses, for instance, on representations of patients and medical landscapes in art, literature, philosophy, bioethics, and other disciplines in the arts and humanities. More...
27 août 2016
Drop the negative spin on kids who start school bilingual – they are a rich resource for the future
By . There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language “is known or believed to be other than English” according to the latest government figures. This confirms a continuous upwards trend that shows no sign of abating. More...
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