A Pretoria law student has won an institutional bullying case after an off-campus racist incident at a private university owned by JSE-listed company Advtech. 

Durban, Scidev.Net — African leaders urged the continent's health community meeting in South Africa this week to turn crisis into opportunity, highlighting progress in vaccine manufacturing against a backdrop of drastic job losses and aid cuts.

In a powerful call to action, the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Professor Olusola Oyewole, urged African institutions to reclaim ownership of the continent’s research agenda, financing, and leadership.

The head of South Africa’s representative vice-chancellors’ body has welcomed the appointment of Buti Manamela as the country’s new minister of higher education and training following Pres....

[JOHANNESBURG] Solidarity with Palestine in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is threatening research funding at some South African universities, according to a lead....

As South Africa prepares to celebrate 30 years of democracy, Professor Jairam Reddy, one of the architects behind the founding vision of tertiary education in the post-apartheid era, has called for a review of....

The legacy of South Africa’s first post-apartheid minister of education, Professor Sibusiso Bengu, includes the establishment, through policies, of the foundation for a unified system with a strong emp....