Global economies and the unprecedented democratisation of information have changed the world. Given that the main purpose of school was to teach children the necessities to live and to work, is there no easier, or more effective, way to achieve that same goal two centuries later?
Posts published in “General”
Calling on young South Africans to share their ideas in the Thought Leader Ukuzibuza writing contest
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
New Amsterdam is a critique of neoliberal health care in the United States
Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose
Consumerism has turned us into the new proletariat while our devices have switched off our brains
After a year of immense change, the divide between the haves and the have nots remains frustratingly the same
In 1902 she fought for emancipation, including that of women, and was the first black South African to graduate with a BSc
The Big Brain of Apartheid would not approve of the neat neighbourhood that still bears his name
The work-from-home genie is out of the bottle, and technology to automate processes has been adopted far faster than under normal circumstances. Students should think carefully about what this means for their studies