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South African #universities face a dire #GovernanceCrisis, with failing councils & poor leadership choices threatening the educational system. Amidst calls for reform, we explore solutions to restore integrity & stability in higher education. #SouthA... https://t.co/J7hABZm31h
— Satori News (@NewsSatori) January 18, 2024

World Economic Forum 2024: South Africa at Davos, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Prof Blade Nzimande is part of the South African delegation and will be on @eNCA today, 16th of January 2023 at 15:10pm #WEF2024 #SouthAfrica #ScienceSavingLives #Itspossible pic.twitter.com/AIaGpVT0hq
— DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & INNOVATION (@dsigovza) January 16, 2024

South African Higher Education is led by hardcore communists but, it's the most expensive & exclusionist system on Afrikan continent. pic.twitter.com/cZCTS1SNQr
— Bra Hloni (@BraHlonisky) January 15, 2024

Students To Retaliate Over NSFAS Mismanagement: Students warn that they will escalate matters over NSFAS mismanagement. The Higher Education Minister has been warned by the South African Student Organization of a possible escalation… https://t.co/VONJrQky0y #NSFAS South Africa
— Ubetoo (@ubetoo) January 15, 2024

Recently-arrived books

Enhancing Science Education by Edited by Margaret A.L Blackie, Hanelie Adendorff, and Marnel Mouton
Call Number: 507.12 ENH
ISBN: 9780367518707
Publication Date: 2023
Sustainability Education by Stephen Scoffham; Steve Rawlinson
Call Number: 372.357 SCO
ISBN: 9781350262072
Publication Date: 2022-04-21
Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old. Informed by research findings and learning theory, it provides a progressive framework for sustainability education spanning all subject areas and applicable in a wide range of settings.....
Doctoral Education in South Africa by Nico Cloete; Johann Mouton; Charles Sheppard
Call Number: 378.20968 CLO
ISBN: 9781928331001
Publication Date: 2015-12-08
This book is unique in the area of research into doctoral studies because it draws on a large number of studies conducted by the Centre of Higher Education Trust (CHET) and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), as well as on studies from the rest of Africa and the world. In addition to the historical studies, new quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken to produce the evidence base for the analyses presented in the book....
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education by Nico Cloete (Editor); Peter Maassen (Editor)
Call Number: 378.6 KNO
ISBN: 9781920677855
Publication Date: 2015-03-02
The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on 'world-class' universities - inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play 'catch-up'. But that discourse should focus rather on the tensions, even contradictions, between 'excellence' and 'engagement' with which all universities must grapple. Here the African experience has much to offer the high-participation and generously resourced systems of the so-called 'developed' world. This book offers a critical review of that experience, and so makes a major contribution to our understanding of higher education.
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education : bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice by Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett, Siseko H. Kumalo, Manjeet Ramgotra.
Call Number: 370.115 DEC
ISBN: 9780367747329
Publication Date: 2021
This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts - which may well have already been in use and debated for some time - become suddenly newly and increasingly important at a particular historical juncture.....
Beyond Public Policy by Peter K. Spink
Call Number: 320.6 SPI
ISBN: 9781788118743
Publication Date: 2019-06-28
"Beyond Public Policy shows how policy is only one of a multiplicity of powerful social languages (budgeting, planning, rights, directives, governancy, philanthropy, protests and self-help, amongst others) that are also actively present, cooperating, competing or going their own way in the ever-changing arena of public affairs"
Castells In Africa: Universities & Development by edited by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete & François van Schalkwyk.
Call Number: 378.6 CAS
ISBN: 9781920677923
Publication Date: 2017
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa