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1 week ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
The hard truth about why we still need employment equity It’s been 30 years of our constitutional democracy, and the subject is back in the news. Do we still need employment equity? No more than those mainly white, all male cast of 135 cardinal electors circling around the Vatican in bright purple gowns need a 21st century shake-up...
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1 week ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
It’s been 30 years of our constitutional democracy, and the subject is back in the news. Do we still need employment equity? No more than those mainly white, all male cast of 135 cardinal electors circling around the Vatican in bright purple gowns need a 21st century shake-up. Truth is, I have never believed in employment equity. There are smart and competent black people as much as there are smart and competent white people...
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2 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
Anti-academic sentiment: Could it happen here? I pondered for weeks whether to attend a US educational research conference last week to receive honours for a nomination by colleagues on that side of the world. The political assault on universities there was simply unbelievable...
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2 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | Trump’s heinous assault on academia: could it happen here? Anti-academic sentiment is not exclusive to right-wing autocrats — we’ve seen flashes of it here in South Africa 30 April 2025 - 04:30 I pondered for weeks whether to attend an American educational research conference last week to receive honours for a nomination by colleagues on that side of the world...
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3 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
Dismantling education myths There are 10 stubborn myths about education that South Africans cling to. It is time to name and dispel them. One, that a chancellor is a powerful university job. It is painful to watch media houses celebrating ‘the head of the university’ with each such appointment...
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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Jonathan Jansen
JONATHAN JANSEN | 10 stubborn myths about education that have South Africans in a chokehold Is a chancellor a powerful university job? What about getting nine or more distinctions, does it mean the pupil is super smart? Jonathan Jansen unpacks 24 April 2025 - 04:30 There are 10 stubborn myths about education that South Africans cling to. It is time to name and dispel them...
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
