Here are Africa’s top universities in 2026, according to Times Higher Education, with South African institutions dominating ...

The University of Johannesburg has been ranked as sub-Saharan Africa’s best university, beating two historic rivals — the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand — to the top ...

After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

Walter Sisulu University yesterday raised concerns that delays in its development were being driven by a lack of cooperation from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).

South Africa's education system is at a breaking point, with over half a million qualified students facing a future without ...

Webometrics published its 2026 global higher education ranking, listing 124 institutions from South Africa, including all 26 ...

Construction on the first phase of the newest campus for the private Afrikaans higher education institution, Akademia, has ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Students’ well-being in higher education has been a growing concern globally since the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted learning and lives generally. Well-being has been described as “the ...