Given that a draft National Plan for the PSET sector for the next decade is currently in consultation phase, in this issue of BrieflySpeaking we reflect on the targets that were set in the National…

BrieflySpeaking (4), History Departments - This monitoring brief provides an overview of History Departments across South Africa at a particular point in time. The brief does not attempt to…

BrieflySpeaking (3) Curriculum decolonisation - This monitoring brief provides a succinct overview of the current and diverse national debates on curriculum. It briefly traces the philosophical,…

BrieflySpeaking (2) Educational pathways - CHE series on topical issues in higher education. This monitoring brief considers the extent of the challenge that South Africa faces in providing…

BrieflySpeaking (1) Research ethics, which is the first in a new CHE series on topical issues in higher education, considers research publication ethics in the context of monetary rewards for…

This issue, “Constituting Higher Education”, continues in this vein, assembling as it does the views of a number of contributors on the important theme of understanding universities in relation to…

 Welcome to the sixth issue of VitalStats: Public Higher Education, a series that was launched in 2012 withVitalStats 2010. The series provides recent, audited data on the higher education sector for…