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If school-leavers enter into new environments where their boundaries are stretched, it helps them realise what they are capable of doing
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

The gap year

Taking a gap after school can be the best possible way for students to prepare for their future and find their feet

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Literature reviews can help to synthesise a lot of information
ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Better standards and guidelines can bolster research literature reviews

Researchers should try to make their literature reviews as reliable as possible and adhere to strict standards

  • Neal Robert Haddaway
5 min read
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says pupils who have not passed grade 11 would have become high school dropouts had they not been pushed through to grade 12.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Matric marks adjusted only if necessary

Standardisation eliminates discrepancies that have nothing to do with pupils’ abilities.

  • Mafu Rakometsi
7 min read
A changing world requires that curricula be adapted to create graduates who are employable
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Forget plagiarism: There’s a new and bigger threat to academic integrity

Weeding out student essays from paper mills will require work by established academia and a renewed commitment to integrity from varsity communities.

  • Adele Thomas
5 min read
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Universities ‘look beyond the potholes’

It is more urgent to improve lecturers’ teaching skills than to raise funds and develop new courses.

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read
A knowledge evolution is needed to dismantle our legacy of know-ledge and bring our society into alignment with the values of our Constitution.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Whose knowledge is it anyway?

We need to assess whether the country’s education institutions have succeeded in eliminating the legacy of social exclusion.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Outdated models of academic support still persist in universities.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Common sense fails our students

Outdated models of academic support still persist in universities.

  • Chrissie Boughey
7 min read
UCT pops up on global varsity list
ACADEMIC STANDARDS

UCT pops up on global varsity list

After global rankings last week put only one SA university in its top 200 — UCT — a second set of rankings this week also singled out UCT.

  • David Macfarlane
2 min read