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Ubuntu: Professor Puleng LenkaBula is the University of South Africa’s new vice-chancellor
BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRICITY BOTHO UBUNTU AND THE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA

Puleng LenkaBula: The ‘tipping point’ leader is Unisa’s first black woman vice-chancellor

She combines a fighting spirit with a commitment to feminist and ubuntu ethics — qualities that will drive change at the institution

  • Colin Chasi
6 min read
Edinburgh University students protest against the false promise of “hybrid learning” to new and returning students on October 24, 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
AIRBNB

The uberfication of the university

The pandemic is hastening neoliberal universities’ moves towards platform pedagogy, where lecturers become participants in the “just-in-time” gig economy and students become…

  • Lesley le Grange
5 min read
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ADAM HABIB

Covid-19 lockdown pushes Wits University to offer online learning

The university plans to teach online as South Africa’s lockdown continues, and is offering zero-rated data for its teaching sites, as well as computing devices for students

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
Early learning difficulties lead to school dropout, poor matric results, repeated school years and a less effective system for preparing young people for the world
CORONAVIRUS

What we are learning about distance learning

Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg has learned some important lessons about teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown

  • Mark Potterton
5 min read
BLADE NZIMANDE

Major boost for distance learning

Student numbers of the future demand a rethink of the traditional teaching model of universities.

  • Victoria John
4 min read