FINANCIAL STABILITY Universities forced to navigate tricky balance between cash flow and student access to education 6 min 0 By Siyabonga Goni
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Looking to Germany to reduce graduate unemployment and close SA’s skills gap 6 min 1 By Nils Finger and Geoff Schreiner
RENT MESS Landlords threaten legal action as NSFAS fails to pay R62m in student accommodation fees 4 min 3 By Siyabonga Goni
EDUCATION CRISIS Educor's recovery: Department of higher education fully reinstates City Varsity and Damelin colleges 3 min 0 By Siyabonga Goni
EDUCATION BLUES City Varsity’s Cape Town saga — students lack academic results, staff face UIF battles and unpaid salaries 5 min 0 By Siyabonga Goni
ACCOMMODATION CRISIS UCT faces campus shutdown as protesting students demand housing and fee block reforms 5 min 5 By Takudzwa Pongweni
BUDGET 2025 OP-ED Shrinking budget leaves thousands of students with no pathway to higher education 4 min 0 By Aliya Chikte and Matshidiso Lencoasa
RENT MESS Unpaid NSFAS fees threaten student accommodation: a looming crisis ahead of 2025 academic year 3 min 8 By Takudzwa Pongweni
EDUCATION LIMBO City Varsity lecturers and support staff resign over non-payment of salaries 4 min 2 By Siyabonga Goni
EDUCATION LIMBO Students’ dreams on hold amid ongoing instability at Educor campuses 5 min 0 By Siyabonga Goni
STUDYING CRISIS Students reeling after Damelin cancels year-end exams, urged to transfer without clarity 4 min 2 By Takudzwa Pongweni
EDUCATION BLUES Educor’s City Varsity in Cape Town in turmoil with students stranded, ‘heartbroken’ teachers unpaid 5 min 4 By Siyabonga Goni
TRAINING FAILURES OP-ED This is what’s needed to build a coherent skills response to the Just Energy Transition (Part Three) 5 min 0 By Baba-Tamana Gqubule and Presha Ramsarup
TRAINING FAILURES OP-ED It’s time to get vocational education less wrong in the battle against youth unemployment (Part Two) 6 min 1 By Stephanie Allais
TRAINING FAILURES Getting South Africa’s skills needs right requires the right incentives and accurate data (Part One) 5 min 1 By Stephanie Allais and Siphelo Ngcwangu
CAREER BLOCKER Six years in limbo — Elangeni Tvet college students miss out on jobs while waiting for qualification certificates 6 min 4 By Naledi Sikhakhane
SCHEME EXTENSION Nzimande announces NSFAS acting chair and additional R3.8bn for ‘missing middle’ 4 min 12 By Naledi Sikhakhane
CAMPUS STRIFE Students march to Union Buildings to demand that NSFAS scrap new 'extra-fees' payment system 3 min 1 By Ernst Calitz
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SA ‘staring down the barrel of a gun’ over shortage of artisans, warns Retail Motor Industry Organisation 3 min 5 By Georgina Crouth
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY ‘Very good developments’ at National Skills Fund after R5bn went missing 3 min 2 By Suné Payne
EDUCATION & TRAINING OP-ED TVET colleges need a radical overhaul to become centres of excellence 7 min 0 By Vinodh Jaichand and Mkhuseli Vimba
