The Department of Basic Education announced the release of the national matric results for the class of 2019 on 7 January 2020. Many of these students will be aiming to secure a bachelor’s pass to help secure a place in one of the country’s top universities and study for a higher certificate, diplom...

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the class of 2019 had breached the 80% threshold for the first time.

The higher education sector in South Africa every has reason to celebrate as the amendments to the Department of Trade and Industry’s broad-based black economic empowement (B-BBEE) Codes of Good Practice came into effect as of December 1.

A recent study by the Africa Capacity Building Foundation has revealed that the continent has only about 55,000 engineers against an estimated 4.3 million required, Secretary General of the Association of African Universities (AAU) Professor Etienne Ehouan Ehilé has said.

Pretoria - The Independent Institute of Education lost its legal challenge to have students from its institutions receive the same sporting opportunities as their counterparts at public institutions.

A recent New York Times article offered a snapshot of how students in nine countries paid for their college. While it is right to seek international comparisons, the piece was misleading by relying too heavily on anecdotes and failing to give enough context about the rules of the road for higher edu...

More than 50 000 government-funded university students are set to enjoy great debt relief and focus more on their studies after the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) committed close to R1bn to settle their outstanding fees. The department said on Sunday that Minister Naledi Pandor h...