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ViewSouth Africa to establish ‘education precincts’

First precinct to be built in KwaZulu-Natal township

ViewStudents can return to campuses under level three lockdown

Full return only possible by end of September, say officials

ViewParliament slams universities for ‘giving us the finger’

Universities flouting parliamentary oversight, say MPs

ViewWits seeks volunteers for Covid-19 testing study

Project will gauge accuracy of rapid coronavirus test kits

ViewSouth Africa to study coronavirus effect on economy

Three universities will survey 10,000 South Africans monthly

ViewWits will ‘probably’ overrun into 2021 academic year

Vice-chancellor Adam Habib pushes for online teaching, while accepting not everyone has access

ViewQuestions remain as some research resumes in South Africa

Certain non-Covid-19 activities are being declared essential during lockdown on a case-by-case basis

ViewSmaller South African universities shine in 2020 Nature Index

Durban University of Technology leapfrogs well-known institutions in publications-based list

ViewHalf of South African universities ‘will struggle to finish year’

Ten of country’s 26 universities are in distress and need assistance, says minister

ViewGovernment promises laptops for all needy students

South Africa vows to deliver 730,000 computers—but admits funding is a challenge

ViewSouth African universities to stay shut until further notice

All institutions to have some form of distance learning up and running by June

ViewWits adopts code to curb ‘ethics dumping’

Practice more prominent because of increase in researcher mobility, university claims

ViewSouth Africa to start coronavirus drug testing in May

Approval from health regulating bodies last hurdle before trials can begin

ViewSouth African coronavirus survey to focus on students and youth

Nzimande says Human Sciences Research Council survey will move on to educational matters

ViewNRF further relaxes deadlines due to coronavirus

South African researchers get a few extra weeks to work on their grant applications

ViewSouth Africans back Ramaphosa as lockdown bites

Old and affluent more supportive of hard lockdown than young and poor

ViewCape Town HIV prevention conference postponed until January

Conference was scheduled to take place in October in South Africa

ViewSouth Africa’s academic year might extend into 2021

Higher education situation ‘difficult, complex and unpredictable’, Blade tells virtual Parliament

ViewCoronavirus research booms at shuttered SA universities

Projects range from 3D printing medical equipment to research on bats

ViewHSRC launches two coronavirus surveys

Studies will gauge effects of outbreak on citizens and health workers

ViewSouth Africa should dual test for TB and Covid-19

Scientists fear people with tuberculosis are at risk of severe coronavirus symptoms

ViewLockdown shuts down University of Cape Town research

Only Covid-19 research has kept going through South Africa’s lockdown

ViewSouth African astronomers to lead national ventilator project

Drive aims to produce 10,000 ventilators by end of June to treat Covid-19

ViewBlack publication numbers rising in KZN but ‘it’s not transformation’

Province’s numbers evidence of influx of foreign black researchers, paper claims

ViewSA, Kenya and Egypt eligible for Newton Prizes

For first time African nations qualify for the awards that target Newton Fund research

ViewCoronavirus claims life of renowned HIV scientist

Gita Ramjee is one of South Africa’s first fatalities from Covid-19

ViewSouth Africa sets up Covid-19 data hub

Data platform will inform national decision-making, says science minister

ViewFiery meeting ends Parliament term cut short by coronavirus

Higher education and science committee slams non-attendance by key witnesses

View‘We haven’t closed shop’, says South Africa’s NRF

Funder says it won’t leave researchers hanging as SA goes into lockdown

ViewSouth Africa announces more funding for Covid-19 research

Funding to cover vaccine development and disease modelling, says Nzimande