Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela has urged young South Africans to apply early to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges for the 2027 academic year, warning prospective students not to wait until January to begin the process. The Department of Higher Education and Training has opened the September 2026 application period, with applications closing on 30 September. Manamela said young people should use the application window to explore their interests, understand the different occupational programmes offered…

Thirty-five years later, the history of SASCO remains inseparable from the broader struggle for a just, democratic and transformed South Africa. It is a history written not merely in conference resolutions and organisational documents, but in the courage of generations of students who refused to accept exclusion, inequality and injustice as their permanent reality. As former SASCO leaders and deployees who served at the Unisa National SRC from 2014–2016, we carry with us the pride and responsibility of having been…

Recognition of qualifications currently operates on a bilateral basis, but the parties aim to establish a common agreement for all BRICS countries At the upcoming BRICS Summit, participants intend to make progress towards concluding a multilateral agreement on the mutual recognition of higher education diplomas and academic degrees, including PhD degrees. This was stated by Vladimir Filippov, President of Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, a TV BRICS partner, in an exclusive interview with TV BRICS. “We have made substantial…

A specialised promotion mission is presenting Egyptian universities, study programmes and admission opportunities to Nigerian students in Lagos, Abuja and Kano Egypt has launched a specialised education promotion mission in Nigeria as part of a wider effort to expand the country’s education exports, attract more international students and strengthen academic cooperation with African countries, as reported by Sada El-Balad, a TV BRICS partner. The programme is being organised by the Egyptian General Authority for Exhibitions and Conferences in cooperation with national…

The communication profession is being remade in real time. The qualifications meant to prepare students for it are not keeping up. Artificial intelligence can generate content in seconds. Algorithms increasingly determine what people see, believe and engage with. Organisations no longer control their own communication environments, because employees, consumers, activists, influencers and communities are all potential publishers. Reputation can be strengthened or destroyed online within hours. Data influences communication decisions, while misinformation, privacy, trust, ethics and authenticity have moved from…

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — As classrooms worldwide grapple with the transformative yet disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI), a fundamental question hangs over the future of education: what is schooling for when machines can outthink humans? This question has recently taken centre stage in Beijing, where global academics, policymakers and frontline educators gathered to map out new models for teaching in the intelligent era. Amid the lively cross-border exchanges, one reality is clear: China’s large-scale experiments with AI-driven education…

The death of Professor Jason Arday, a British Sociology professor at Cambridge University, is more than the passing of a scholar. It is the loss of an intellectual force whose work challenged the comfortable assumptions through which knowledge about Africa, race, power, and the modern world has too often been produced. For Black scholars, the death of a scholar such as Arday is deeply personal. We understand that scholarship is not always an innocent enterprise. Knowledge has historically been used…

South Africa is not simply facing a teacher shortage. It is witnessing the erosion of the entire system of care that should surround a school, and teachers are being crushed beneath the weight of everything falling through the gaps. We are losing teachers, the social workers who support them and the non-governmental organisations to which they refer vulnerable children. These are not three separate crises. They are one crisis — and it is unfolding now. Much of the recent public…

A university should never cross borders simply to admire how another institution operates. The true power of benchmarking lies in what happens when we return home – armed not with photographs and impressions, but with sharper questions, fresh perspectives and the courage to challenge the way we have always done things. North-West University’s recent benchmarking visit to the University of Arizona in Tucson was exactly that kind of journey. It was more than a visit to another university; it was…

This involves exchanges of lecturers and students, joint research and educational programmes Iran and South Africa have agreed to expand cooperation between universities and scientific organisations. This was reported by IRNA, a partner of TV BRICS. A meeting between Iran’s Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Technology, Masoud Shams Bakhsh, and South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, took place in Bhubaneswar, India, during the 13th BRICS Education Ministers’ Meeting. Dube-Ncube outlined the opportunities offered by South African universities…