South African universities must urgently clarify the distinction between master’s and doctoral qualifications if the sector is to safeguard academic standards and strengthen its ...
How South African universities assess master’s dissertations and doctoral theses is no longer a narrow technical matter. It is increasingly bound up with wider ...
It begins in Maseru, Lesotho’s capital, a place surrounded by mountains and memory. Mr Carlos da Silva grew up watching the world change from ...
Senior academics and research leaders have called for deeper reform in South Africa’s higher education system to strengthen postgraduate pathways and improve research leadership. ...
Universities South Africa (USAf) convened national higher-education leaders, academics and policymakers in Johannesburg during late November to strengthen the pipeline of early-career researchers. The ...
Senior academics and research programme leads have urged South Africa’s universities to rethink mentorship structures and prioritise models that recognise the social, psychological and ...
On 30 October 2025, leading voices in scholarly publishing, research funding, and open scholarship practice enlightened southern African scholars on Everything researchers need to ...
The USAf Community of Practice for Postgraduate Education and Scholarship (CoP PGES) webinar on 30 October 2025, titled Everything Researchers Need to Know About ...
In a compelling Mentor Masterclass hosted by Thuso Connect, Professor David Hornsby (above), Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President: Academic at Carleton University, Canada, delivered a ...
“We cannot claim to have covered all the bases concerning the support and empowerment of early career researchers and academics, but we are getting ...