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Students at Tshwane University of Technology continue their protest to have management hear their demands.

TUT: Where anger, protests and disruption are the norm

The M&G gets management’s perspective on the growing frustrations students experience at being academically excluded due to a lack of funds.

After their counterparts at Wits and UCT scored morale-boosting victories

How student power gave workers hope

Support staff are finally being brought in-house, thanks to young idealists fighting for their rights.

Students March for no increase to tuition fees in 2016.

#FeesMustFall takes fight to Union Buildings

In their thousands, students of the #FeesMustFall campaign marched to the Union Buildings to have their demands heard.

The Economic Freedom Fighters provincial leaders are advocating for the removal of deputy positions, potentially sidelining Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (above) and Poppy Mailola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

EFF calls for removal of Die Stem from national anthem

The EFF says there will be no dignity in SA’s heritage until apartheid symbols have fallen.

Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command

EFF ‘illegal’ student gathering at UJ turns bloody

All hell broke loose at UJ when police and hired bouncers clamped down on a protest by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command.

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.

Alliance to tackle internal divisions head-on

The tripartite alliance says it wants to address all "irritations" that are causing internal divisions at their five day summit.

The project would have helped develop skills in the construction industry.

Limpopo youth lose out after R28m skills project grinds to halt

An initiative intended to empower 1 100 young adults from Limpopo has fallen prey to various bureaucratic issues.

The Great Hall at Wits University. Photo: Supplied

Wits vice-chancellor says state can help end exploitation

Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib plans to abolish the "exploitative" practice of outsourcing support service workers on campus.

Dilemma: Professor Tyrone Pretorius believes the university shouldn’t be penalised but rather encouraged to do better.

UWC’s success counts against it

Despite overcoming much of its apartheid legacy, the university is being denied the financial aid it needs to develop its facilities.

Out of pocket: Karin and Thys Kruger housed students at their guesthouse

Students asked to cough up as tiff over unpaid private digs deepens

Lodges agreed to put up a North West college’s charges, but state funding failed to materialise.

The apparent benefits of the internship model need to be offset by operational, political and academic challenges

Most of our new teachers can’t

The number of teachers graduating is no longer of concern, but their ability leaves much to be desired.

Money is an impediment but so too is the lack of political will, accountability and quality teacher training and support

Motshekga blocks re-employment of thousands of teachers

The department of basic education wants to block the reappointment of public school teachers who have resigned in order to access their pension funds.

Sadtu general secretary Mugwena Maluleke says the union will oppose the teaching of Mandarin at schools with “everything we have”.

Teaching Mandarin at school ‘will colonise SA anew’ – Sadtu

The education department is offering pupils the option to learn a Chinese language, but the union wants more emphasis placed on indigenous languages.

EFF leader Julius Malema says the fall of the Cecil Rhodes statue is a major step towards defeating white supremacy in South Africa.

The fall of Rhodes’s statue is only the first step, says Malema

The EFF leader also stressed that the battle against white supremacy cannot be won until universities offer free education.

EFF whips Sasco at VUT SRC elections.

EFF claims landslide victory over Sasco at VUT SRC

The ruling ANC-aligned student body, Sasco, has suffered an embarrassing election defeat by the EFF at the Vaal University of Technology.

Outcry: Students marched to the higher education department earlier this month

No-fee varsity report gathers dust

The minister is keeping the lid on a ‘feasible’ free education plan he has in his possession.

A group of students protesting the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

NSFAS protests: ‘The only solution is free education’

Protesting students say that NSFAS has reached its sell-by date and the only option now is free education and cancelling student debt.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is being lobbied in an online petition to  investigate violence in the country’s schools.

Avaaz campaigners call on Motshekga to stop school violence

Bolstering a weak life orientation curriculum is proposed as one of the ways of preventing abuse, including rape, in classrooms.

Delay: The higher education ministry has been accused of delaying the introduction of a system that would enable students to register with  any university for one fee.

Bid to end varsity chaos drags

Blade Nzimande’s plan to introduce a centralised system for tertiary registrations is behind schedule.

Cida City Campus staff and students met with AAYMCA on February 2 regarding the association’s offer to purchase the historical university.

Urgent court application sought to bar Cida’s liquidation

Cida staff members have brought an urgent application to the Johannesburg high court, in the hopes of barring its liquidation.