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Whizz kids: The 2025 cohort of the National Science and Technology Forum’s Brilliants Programme. Photos: National Science and Technology Forum

Top pupils get wings to help SA soar

Through the NSTF Brilliants Programme, a group of top maths and science learners are becoming tomorrow’s problem-solvers, innovators and leaders

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme received a record 893 487 applications for the 2026 academic year

NSFAS receives nearly 900 000 applications, with women making up 66%

The student financial aid scheme said its appeals process would be open until 14 January

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa touts youth jobs drive as StatsSA data paints grim unemployment picture

The statistics agency’s youth report notes worsening joblessness, hunger and safety concerns among South Africa’s youth

TSIBA Business School opens doors of possibilities

For 20 years it has empowered students to realise their potential and emerge as future leaders

Professor Letlhokwa George Mpedi, UJ’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal.

UJ’s Strategic Plan 2035: Charting an inclusive future through innovation and impact 

The plan ensures the transformative institution will make a difference locally and internationally

Charmaine Mabuza, ITHUBA CEO.
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Transforming lives: The impact of quality education in South Africa

Since 1999, ITHUBA’s Scholarship programme has supported more than 300 young South Africans in pursuing tertiary education

Bawowethu Jonas: ‘Education is expensive. Education now is like buying water, buying bread and buying eggs’

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: Thirty and thriving, or barely surviving?

Tracking the progress of South Africa’s 30-year-olds as they navigate education, work, anxiety and hope

Dr Linda Meyer

Learn how to study effectively

Good study habits established in high school equip students with skills applicable to later aspects of life and learning

Samantha Williams, a TSIBA graduate, reflects on her learning path.

Building leadership and future leaders

SBS Swiss Business School and TSIBA Business School in educational collaboration

Marissa Rollnick, Professor Emeritus at Wits, says Extended Curriculum Programmes provide additional support and resources and a more gradual transition, so that disadvantaged students can meet the rigorous academic demands of university education.

Bridging the gap between high school and university

Extended Curriculum Programmes create an equitable education landscape

Mandilakhe Lungile is a TSIBA BBA graduate who now works as an administrator at Intembeko Investment.

TSIBA graduates making huge strides in the business world 

The business school is a community where dreams are realised and careers are launched

Students protest for free education in Cape Town. (Photo by Shaun Swingler/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Fair discrimination requires all South Africans to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education

Students protest outside Parliament in Cape Town. Photo by David Harrison

Why the latest student protests were predictable

Those in power have learnt very little from the past and will continue to cling to the capricious hope that somehow the problem will go away

The students’ demands and the reactions they solicit no longer match those of 2015’s #FeesMustFall – students need an actionable plan, funds, accommodation.

Why do the student protests seem different this year?

Their demands and the reactions they solicit no longer match those of 2015’s #FeesMustFall – students need an actionable plan, funds, accommodation

File photo: The pilot project involves 39 public higher education institutions, including the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Western Cape. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

As student march to Wits vice-chancellor’s home, higher education sets up new committee to deal with protesters concerns

The NSFAS accommodation cap and other concerns will be discussed by task force comprising the department of higher education and training, Usaf and vice-chancellors

(John McCann/M&G)

Despite gender progress, African men are shaping the future of higher education

There are only six women vice-chancellors in SA, and progress in eliminating gender bias is slow

The Free State department of education has confirmed that it had to shut schools in the Xhariep district after 100 pupils were infected with influenza B and human rhinovirus.

Summit to explore redefining the future of education

‘If education must address the needs of society, then we have to adapt to the current and future needs’

We should be obsessed with how we can help our young South Africans access and utilise systems of secondary and tertiary entry education. (Photo by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Online learning, a mandatory alternative

We should be obsessed with how we can help our young South Africans access and utilise systems of secondary and tertiary entry education

Kaluke Mawila: The university campus principal who leads from the heart

It was people’s warmth towards Kaluke Mawila that set the tone for how she manages the George campus of Nelson Mandela University

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

The plight of the ‘missing middle’ is no joke, Nzimande

Parents who, on paper, look like they can afford to pay their children’s university fees often can’t. They also miss out on funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.