Category: Related HE News
On this page, Universities South Africa (USAf) shares articles, published papers or thought leadership and opinion pieces on higher education. These may originate from intellectuals within the public universities system or are identified in mainstream media and make for interesting food for thought.
If the Higher Education Sustainability Community of Practice (HESCoP) is to have its way, South Africa’s universities will, over time, integrate environmental sustainability principles into all disciplines’ subject matter...
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Through a partnership with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the British Council has announced R3,4m funding to 20 higher education partnerships focused on doctoral training. The...
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On Thursday, 7 March, 2019, Ashraf Garda of SAFM’s The View Point (20:00-22:00) hosted Professor Ahmed Bawa, USAf’s CEO. The hour-long discussion, which included listeners’ comments and questions, hinged...
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On Wednesday, 5 March, 2019, Bongani Bingwa, the host of a SABC 3’s new programme, Democracy Gauge (week days 17:30-18:30), invited Prof Ahmed Bawa, USAf’s CEO, for a 10-minute...
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In this article, published in the Sunday Independent on 29 July, Professor Tshilidzi Marwala celebrates the Nelson Mandela centenary from an information and communication technology (ICT) perspective. ...
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On 13 June 2018, the Chief Executive Officer of Universities SA (USAf), Prof Ahmed Bawa, was the subject of freelance writer Nicholas Claude’s weekly podcast, Voices from SA. Prof...
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Notwithstanding the much expanded access to South Africa’s tertiary education in the past decade, youth employability remains a national concern. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges, predominantly...
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In this article, an independent author, Camilla Pennington, takes a look at initiatives in Higher Education to drive the development of entrepreneurship among South African graduates. Read more…
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This article is based on a paper that Prof Ahmed Bawa, USAf’s CEO, presented at the Going Global conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the first week of May...
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On Wednesday, 2 May 2018, the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted a panel discussion titled: Racism in a digital age, in which Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor at the University of...
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In response to the Presidential declaration of free education on 16 December, 2017, Prof Ahmed Bawa, the USAf Chief Executive Officer, expressed an opinion. Read more..
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