India has learned valuable lessons about language and bodies of knowledge that could be applied in South Africa’s universities.
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Nelson Mandela called education “the most powerful weapon with which you can change the world”. How can universities bring his words to life?
There are compelling educational reasons to employ more black academics in universities and to give them all the support they’ll need to become professors.
Evidence on the ability, or lack thereof, of children to rise above the economic status of their parents shines light on the continued persistence of inequality, including in South Africa.
Failed by the institutions meant to protect them from exploitation, South African Post Offices workers gave up on the legal system, resorting to illegal means.
The black middle class occupies a complex and sometimes precarious position in society, one that requires constant renegotiation.
After two decades of democracy, economic inequality in South Africa remains very high. Survey comparability issues make analysing trends tricky, but it is clear that overall income inequality has not fallen…
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South African Research Chair in Teacher Education; Director of Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) & Professor of International Education and Development Policy (University of Sussex, UK), Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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