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1 week ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
Ten years later, did fees actually fall? It is about 10 years since the most intense and widespread student revolt on SA university campuses. It is therefore an opportune moment to ask two pertinent questions...
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1 week ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
HELD BACK Police take action in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, during the #FeesMustFall protests at Wits University in 2016. In December, then-president Jacob Zuma announced fee-free tertiary education without explaining how the government would finance this. It is about 10 years since the most intense and widespread student revolt on South African university campuses. It is therefore an opportune moment to ask two pertinent questions. Did fees fall?
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2 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
Jansen writes that he has noticed that the basic elements of a good worker are simply not in place. The emails keep coming from strangers — I have a degree but cannot find a job. It’s as if I am being accused of being in the university business, training students, applauding them on graduation day, only for them to step from the stage into unemployment. I am more convinced now than ever before that it is not the degree. Students do not get jobs because they do not know how to show up.
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2 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | Youngsters look like death before they even set foot in the workplace What are pupils learning in life orientation or business studies when they seem so unprepared for the world of work? 10 April 2025 - 04:30 By JONATHAN JANSEN The emails keep coming from strangers — I have a degree but cannot find a job.
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3 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
We need more new teachers like Kerneels When Kerneels van der Bijl* (not his real name), a young, white Afrikaans-speaking student at Stellenbosch University recently approached me, his request caught me off-guard. I had taught him and 280 other teacher education students for a term and had them work through a case study of a turnaround school where I work in the morning...
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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
When Kerneels van der Bijl (not his real name), a young, white Afrikaans-speaking student at Stellenbosch University recently approached me, his request caught me off-guard. I had taught him and 280 other teacher education students for a term and had them work through a case study of a turnaround school where I work in the morning. The school had a spell of poor academic results and is located in a volatile community where gangs and drugs and absentee parents were common.
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4 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
Twelve professors of education are re-entering schools in 2025 to teach the subject they taught one or more decades ago. Some are already teaching, while others will follow shortly. The professors come from universities across SA including Wits, UCT, Rhodes, Limpopo, Stellenbosch and the University of Zululand. Why are these eminent scholars and teachers going back to school? Professors of education are charged with preparing the next generation of teachers.
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4 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | Back to school for professors as they turn culture shock into teachable moments When I embarked on this journey, I was embarrassed to find that I struggled in three areas 27 March 2025 - 04:30 Twelve professors of education are re-entering schools this year to teach the subject they taught one or more decades ago. Some are already teaching, while others will follow shortly.
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | The only way to prevent ECD 'own goals' is to go on the attack If you are serious about what you said, Mr President, do these five things 20 March 2025 - 04:30 There has been lots of talk this past week about “own goals”...
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | Great concept but homework is so middle-class Having listened carefully to working-class youth for more than a year, it suddenly hit me that our assumptions about doing homework are all wrong 13 March 2025 - 04:30 Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year...
