Opening the Institute of Social and Economic Research’s (ISER) Summer School on the very day of Steve Biko’s assassination 34 years ago, Dr Saleem Badat, Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, drew attention to the old divides of “race, class, gender and geography” and the “hunger and disease, poverty and unemployment that continue to blight our democracy”. ...read more

The second day of the ISER Summer School brought heated debate on the workings of local government. Professor Greg Ruiters, began the day with a presentation on key issues in local government transformation....read more

The 2011 ISER Summer School, sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation kicked off today and will run until Thursday, 15 September. The attendants, drawn from municipalities and civil society around the Eastern Cape, will be debating issues around the theme, ‘governance, social policy and inequality’....read more

In a presentation held under the auspices of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University Dr Yusuf Sayed of the University of Sussex provided a critical review of education policy making in South Africa since 1994, unpacking the notion of the education crisis and challenging common sense assumptions related to it.
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