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CHE’s challenge an opportunity not a crisis for UCT Law Faculty
Media reports about the Council of Higher Education (CHE) review process have given the impression that the University of Cape Town is in peril of losing accreditation for the LLB degree. This conclusion is misleading and alarmist. It overlooks the importance of the relationship between universities and the CHE in ensuring that South African law faculties maintain high standards.
24 Nov 2017
Opinion
Statement by civil society organisations on the integrity of the budget process
23 Nov 2017
Republished
UCT Philosophy Department statement on the Rocking the Daisies concession
UCT’s Philosophy Department releases a statement outlining their position on the controversial decision to offer a concession for students attending Rocking the daisies.
20 Oct 2017
Open letter
Response to VC’s recent communication about DVC smear email
William Daniels writes a letter to Dr Max Price to address the way in which the Vice-Chancellor handled the public communication about the recent email smearing DVC Phakeng.
20 Oct 2017
Open letter
Modern mathematics: Did the Greeks inherit the Earth?
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Loretta Feris and the Curriculum Change Working Group recently convened a panel discussion on decolonising the mathematics curriculum.
29 Sep 2017
Opinion
‘Decolonisation’ at the University of Cape Town: What is it? How should it be achieved?
Emeritus Professor Timothy Crowe responds to Mahmood Mamdani’s TB Davie Memorial Lecture (22 August 2017) titled “Decolonisng the Post-Colonial University”.
26 Sep 2017
Opinion
Emancipated ‘decolonisation’ at the University of Cape Town: What is it? How should it be achieved?
Emeritus Professor Timothy Crowe responds to Professor Vivek Chibber’s Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture (14 August 2017) titled “Eurocentrism, the academy and social emancipation”.
26 Sep 2017
Opinion
Postgrads urgently need funding
Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng argues the case for further funding for postgraduate study.
15 Sep 2017
Opinion
From classroom 5A at UCT to Parliament: a lecture that became reality
From classroom 5A at UCT to Parliament: a lecture that became reality
30 Aug 2017
Response to Premier's statement about drought
Peter Johnston responds to Premier Helen Zille's statement on 22 May 2017.
02 Jun 2017
Interrogating Free Decolonised Higher Education Funding
Fort Hare’s Enver Motala calls for imaginative thinking towards a post-capitalist society in response to UCT’s Free Education Planning Group.
30 May 2017
Response to UCT Free Education Planning Group documents
Sean Archer, a retired member of the School of Economics and currently a research associate in that department, calls for peer review of the Free Education Planning Group’s documents.
15 May 2017
Does UCT value its values?
Jeremy Seekings, professor of political studies and sociology, examines how the management of the university responded to an early challenge on the newly adopted Statement of Values.
03 May 2017
Academic climate change at UCT: An inconvenient truth
Prof David Benatar comments on the campus environment in a piece published on Politicsweb on 30 March 2017.
06 Apr 2017
Vice-Chancellor responds to the statement by members of the Science RAC
05 Apr 2017
Statement by members of the Science RAC (Readmission Appeals Committee)
04 Apr 2017
Beware the Ides of March: The University of Cape Town Alumni Association waives the rules
28 Mar 2017
Who owns a photograph? Goldblatt archive should remain in Cape Town
Groundbreaking photographer David Goldblatt’s archive should stay in South Africa, where it belongs, writes Martin Hall in Times Higher Education .
24 Mar 2017
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