Heavy weekend rain left 14 hikers trapped between swollen rivers on the Tsitsikamma hiking trail‚ forcing them to huddle around a makeshift fire overnight until it was safe to make a chest-deep river crossing with rescuers and be plucked…
A study by the Independent Institute of Education (IIE) has found that two of the biggest challenges facing higher education students during the pandemic have been lack of peer contact and poor motivation. The study involved students from…
More than 100 Walter Sisulu University students were abruptly deregistered in the middle of the year. According to the students, who were all in the faculty of science, engineering and technology, they registered for the 2020 academic…
Gates to the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth were shut on Monday morning. “When staff tried to unblock barricades, it almost escalated into violence. Management has temporarily halted all student transport as a precautionary…
“WOULD you like to be a schoolboy again?” asks South African band Asylum Kids in their 1981 song Schoolboy. “No! No! No!” comes the fierce reply. While there certainly are reasons one may look back fondly on one’s school days, there are…
Only three Walter Sisulu University students were on Tuesday interdicted from acting illegally in ongoing protests that have been characterised by violence at three of the university’s campuses. The university sought an interdict against…
By SINO MAJANGAZA, ZOLILE MENZELWA and SIMTHANDILE FORD University of Fort Hare students in East London yesterday intensified their fight for accommodation when they shut down the campus. They have also threatened to stage sit-ins from…
By Sino Majangaza The SRC at the University of Fort Hare’s East London campus has vowed that the academic year will not resume until the management has sorted out the accommodation issues. Hundreds of registered students at the campus are…
BY SIPHO MABENA Scores of students in the last-minute rush to secure space at the country’s universities and colleges have been unable to access the higher education and training department’s registration system as a result of technical…
Stirling High matrics handed in all of their school shoes at the start of their last exam, with the shoes destined for underprivileged pupils through the Scripture Union Annual School Shoe Collection. Pictured are some of the matrics with…
BY KATHARINE CHILD University and college students will for the first time be able to access HIV prevention medication called Truvada. This was announced by the Department of Higher Education and Training as part of its HIV and Aids…
By Sino Majangaza Thousands of University of Fort Hare students have returned to their campus this morning as the university reopens for the final term… not for academic activities… but to continue with the stayaway. Before going on…
By Sino Majangaza University of Fort Hare nursing department students at the East London campus have defied the orders of the management to return to class this morning.Instead they are having a meeting on a way forward. Yesterday, acting…
Hundreds of University of Fort Hare students have been hurriedly moved out of a building in central East London into other buildings – including one owned by Jacob Zuma’s son-in-law. The university took the decision to move the students…
AW Barnes Primary School decided to raise funds for the DJ Sobey Old Age Home with their teachers dressing up as pupils and the pupils dressing up to suit a career of their choice. The funds raised will all go towards the wellbeing of the…
