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Bongani is an education reporter at the Mail & Guardian.
The sector training and education bodies and companies together cause the system to flounder.
The province with the lowest matric pass rate in the country has begun looking honestly at its failures with input from employees, parents and pupils.
Pressing financial challenges that have befuddled previous ministers include health insurance, free education and the nuclear deal with Russia.
The M&G gets management’s perspective on the growing frustrations students experience at being academically excluded due to a lack of funds.
University leaders and the government look set to lock horns over institutional autonomy.
Support staff are finally being brought in-house, thanks to young idealists fighting for their rights.
Millions of rands are at stake and workers are also concerned about the question of contracts.
About 200 students and staff marched peacefully on Monday to demand that UJ ends its practice of outsourcing workers.
A veto on university fee increases is a victory, but the funding scheme still fails many people.
The authors of a 2012 report mapping out the case for free tertiary education say the government has a moral obligation to enable the poor to study.
TUT students marched peacefully to key institutions to deliver demands they say will open the door to free education.
Students’ protest over funding continued at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) on Monday, forcing closure of the institution.
In their thousands, students of the #FeesMustFall campaign marched to the Union Buildings to have their demands heard.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has lambasted university vice-chancellors for ineffectively dealing with the widespread #FeesMustFall protests.
A study showing the viability of no-fee tertiary education has been in Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande’s hands for three years.
Wits University has been forced to cancel classes for the rest of the week as students across the country plan for the #NationalShutDown today.
The university council’s meeting on the weekend simply did not give in to protesting students’ demands for 0% increases.
Students would not allow Adam Habib to address them unless he was to tell them "one thing and one thing only: no-fee increments for 2016".
The Wits University fees protest spilled over into a second day as angry students disrupted traffic and continued to block campus entrances.
Academics say worker-owned co-operatives are the solution to ending "unethical and exploitative" outsourcing of support services at the university.
