South Africa: Transformation needs to be transformed
Opinion piece on the various university areas where tranformation is needed.
Publications and Reports
Silence vs dissent’
"If we want to reconstitute the humanities and social sciences, we first have to critique them".
SA must hear calls for change in humanities’
"What exactly are the problems facing the humanities and social sciences (or “humanities” for short) in South Africa? Why do we face them? And what needs to be done for them to be overcome?".
Restless Natives, native questions’
"The humanities in SA will not survive unless we recognise they have sometimes been harnessed to political agendas".
Recolonising the mind: The rise of African National Education
Type: Publications and ReportsYear of Publishing: 2009Keywords: Higher education, African National Education"That Africanisation of higher education has been or should be the hallmark of higher education reform is an assumption that makes little common sense".
Putting knowledge economy first
"Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor has committed to spending almost R5 billion on science and technology".
Progress Report: HSS Ministerial Special Project (April 2013)
We started this long march towards the end of 2010 when Dr. Blade Nzimande appointed us (Prof Ari Sitas and Dr. Sarah Mosoetsa as director and deputy director respectively), to gauge the perceived crisis of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in the country and envision a way forward. It has yielded a rich harvest: the Charter for the Humanities and then the Ministerial Special Project to implement its key recommendations are a reality.
Postgraduate Studies in South Africa: A Statistical Profile
Type: Publications and ReportsYear of Publishing: 2009Keywords: Postgraduate Studies in South AfricaReport aiming to understand the postgraduate profiling across disciplines
Opinion Analysis
Type: Publications and ReportsYear of Publishing: 2012Keywords: Poor quality of education, South Africa, UniveristiesOpinion analysis on the poor quality of education system in South Africa from grade 1 up to university. Ends with discussing the role of univeristies and the way forward, in the sense of increasing admission standards.
Nzimande: African languages under threat.
The number of students taking up African languages at university level is declining.
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