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Regulatory overkill threatens academic autonomy in South Africa
ARE ALL South African universities in systemic crisis? One would imagine so, given the recent legislative and policy actions of Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande.
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The future is in open and online tertiary education
THE World Economic Forum (WEF) says the global economy will need to create about 600-million new jobs in the next decade to preserve social cohesion and ensure sustainable growth. This poses a big challenge and was a key topic at the WEF’s meeting in Davos last week.
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Profit Fetishism: no place in the triple bottom line?
The thought that maximising profit is the ultimate aim of business, popularised most famously by Milton Friedman in the 1970s, is not merely perverse, but it is also founded on triumphalist simple-mindedness informed by a deeply naive psychology of greed.
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Helen Zille v The New Age: Money, Threats & Lies
Where will the spat between Helen Zille and The New Age go next?
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An iPad a day keeps school absenteeism at bay
An iPad app with 600 textbooks in six South African languages has been launched and the classes featuring it have proved to be a hit with pupils.
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