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Hlanganani S. Shange; Luther-King J. Zogli; Bongani I. Dlamini – Transformation in Higher Education, 2025
The study on Green Campus Initiatives (GCIs) at Durban University of Technology (DUT) investigates the mechanisms for stakeholder engagement, plant protection and resource conservation, offering recommendations to enhance sustainability. The growing global emphasis on sustainability and environmental preservation motivates this research, aiming to…
Descriptors: Campuses, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Conservation (Environment)
Rene W. Albertus; Frank Makoza – Transformation in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, the researchers interrogate the media discourse on the national students financial aid scheme (NSFAS) crisis, as well as how the language used by politicians and students, shaped the decision-making of stakeholders. A qualitative approach was employed to analyse online media articles. Content analysis was used to organise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Tebogo J. Rakgogo – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The core objective of this article is to evaluate the progress made in linguistic development over the past three decades, with a specific focus on the role of language and its philosophical underpinnings in reshaping and decolonising South African higher education landscape. Linguistic imperialism as a conceptual framework alongside the Framework…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Social Change, Colonialism
Kutu S. Ramolobe; Mahlatse Malatji; Sinovuyo Mavuso – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The expansion of higher education has created issues with the structure and makeup of universities as well as an increase in student enrolment. As a result, most higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, especially those that were historically underprivileged, are plagued with deteriorated or non-existent physical infrastructure that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Crowding, School Space, Classrooms
Mlamuli N. Hlatshwayo; Amanda Mbatha – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The emergence of the teaching an pandemic was a fundamentally disruptive force in the global higher education system that called on us to re-think the very purposes of higher education, our values, and who the academy is inherently for. Largely driven by the then panic over the unpredictable and infectious nature of the COVID-19 disease, higher…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, School Closing
Felix I. Okoye – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
This article uses the findings obtained from a study that delves into the perceptions of students on their relationship with their higher education (HE) lecturers and how it affects their academic success, to respond to the issue of decolonisation in South African HE, and to approach the question of decolonising HE in Africa. The article argues…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Decolonization
Thuli G. Mthembu; Tibuyile L. Dube; Tijana Milojevic; Beverly P. Ndaramu; Philasande Nyangaza; Siyamtanda O. Qolo; Candice Steenkamp – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Students including health sciences at universities that appear to subscribe to neoliberal logic are at risk for social injustices and inequalities, anxiety, depression, academic demands and unethical activities. There has been little discussion about students' self-care and well-being in and beyond the neoliberal universities. This article…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Well Being, Health Sciences, Social Justice
Suriamurthee M. Maistry – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Post-colonial higher education contexts experience a never-ending recuperation from the multiple violences imposed by colonisation. Coloniality has largely been successful in maintaining a hegemonic hold by white settler colonisers in various facets of higher education despite attempts to decolonise this sector and attempts at transformation. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Colonialism
Willem C. van Wyk; Gary W. Collins; Maria M. Swanepoel – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Journalism's societal role hinges on effective communication, demanding proficient language skills. This study assesses a South African University of Technology's Department of Journalism, probing existing selection methods' efficacy in predicting success in two English modules. Concerns persist about these methods accurately identifying students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
Barbara H. Tsverukayi; Leon Poshai – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The volatile economic environment in Zimbabwe, which is characterised by persistent hyperinflation has exposed the education access inequalities in Zimbabwe's public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The persisting harsh economic conditions in Zimbabwe have further worsened the decline in higher education funding in addition to the budgetary…
Descriptors: Access to Education, State Universities, Neoliberalism, Marketing
Savo Heleta; Isha Dilraj – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The turn to democracy in South Africa brought hope for a higher education sector that would play a key role in tackling racial inequalities and injustices. However, transformation promises ended up being largely smokescreens for maintaining entrenched racist and capitalist logics rooted in colonialism and apartheid. Instead of focusing on…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Ideology, Deception, Higher Education
Lizl Steynberg; Jan P. Grundling; Marius Venter – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Neoliberal ideology globally prioritises competition and productivity over staff well-being in higher education, leading to exploitative practices and heightened stress among academic faculty, culminating in what can be termed modern academic slavery. This study investigates the contemporary impact of neoliberalism on South African universities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, College Faculty
Julliet Munyaradzi – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The global spread and hegemony of English as a medium of teaching, learning and research has come to be closely associated with neoliberalisation of higher education in the universities across the world, and has negatively impacted on epistemic issues, especially in Global South universities. No permanent solution has been found on challenges of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Sibonokuhle Ndlovu; Emnet T. Woldegiorgis – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
In the 21st century, knowledge has become the driving force behind societal progress, emphasising the need for higher education to produce contextually relevant knowledge that addresses the multifaceted challenges faced by local communities. It is in this respect that knowledge needs to be generated through one's position of epistemic location in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Developing Nations, Epistemology
Paul Maluleka – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The public university in South Africa continues to propagate capitalist, competitive and neoliberal agendas that are inconsistent with agendas that could be considered to be of public good. These market-orientated logics and discourses have compromised teaching in the university because of increased casualisation of faculty as a result of cost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Neoliberalism