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Brought to book: Students started protesting against tertiary education fees in 2015 with the Fees Must Fall movement. Nsfas funding still fails to cover the so-called missing middle students. Photo: Michele Spatari/AFP

University funding crisis: Economy crumbling under weighty student debt

Student debt is growing quickly and, if something doesn’t change, it could jeopardise the country’s already struggling economy

Schools will be closed from March 18 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Ramaphosa closes schools as country grapples with coronavirus

Following several other countries, South Africa will send learners home this week

Access to knowledge: The Cecil H Green library at Stanford University. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions holds the same view on copyright as USAf.

USAf’s position on Bill in line with its mission

Universities South Africa takes exception to André Myburgh’s characterisation of its submission on the Copyright Amendment Bill

First choice: Aspirant students still queue at universities, even though that these institutions have discouraged walk-in applications. Photo: Gallo Images/The Times/Halden Krog

University is not right for everyone

Young people see technical colleges as dumping sites instead of places to acquire sought-after skills

Even after the elections were finished and power had been successfully transferred

Would-be students scramble to enrol

Teens from outlying provinces brave the big city’s cruelties in the hope of bagging a prized university spot, knowing that nothing is certain

Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane celebrate with manager Mauricio Pochettino after the match Action Images via (Carl Recine/Reuters)

University South Africa is concerned about new funding proposal

USAf CEO Ahmed Bawa warned that the government’s implementation of the fees commission’s recommendations was more important than the report’s release.

The consumer price index decreased by 0.1% month-on-month in August, after increasing by 0.9% in July.

Ante upped in varsity fees showdown

The president is sitting on the fees commission’s report, but Gigaba’s budget may show his hand

Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon paid a hefty fine for colluding on costing for upgrading a section of the Sishen-Saldanha railway line.

Vice-chancellors want free tuition for poor students in 2017

Varsity heads want student aid to be extended to families earning less than R200 000 a year.

Bawa’s baptism of fire

Although the challenges at the Durban University of Technology aren’t what he was expecting, new vice-chancellor Ahmed Bawa swears he’s up to the job.

New era for Durban University of Technology

Widely respected academic Ahmed Bawa will be inaugurated as vice-chancellor and principal of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) this weekend.