To date, decolonisation in UK higher education has been patchy, misunderstood and, in some cases, misused as institutions struggle to address the questions thrown up by it. Too often the conversation ...

Decolonisation has become a feature of academic life in many institutions of higher learning in North America and western Europe over the past few decades, and from the outset I would state that this ...

How does a radical idea make its way through a university? This question is at the heart of our recently published book The Decolonization of Knowledge: Radical Ideas and the Shaping of Institutions ...

The idea of decolonisation frightens many South African academics. Since students launched the movement to decolonise higher education in early 2015, I’ve heard several of my peers ask, “What do ‘they ...

About a year ago, angry South African university students in the #FeesMustFall movement took to the streets and called for the immediate introduction of an Afrocentric higher education in their ...

Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg When South African students launched the “Rhodes Must Fall” ...

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday, April 29 released the "Mandate Document: Guidelines for the Development of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF)". According to the minister, ...

Lia Snijman is a journalism honours student at Stellenbosch University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Afrikaans and Dutch, English and French, also at Stellenbosch University. As calls for ...

Teacher training in art education at German universities is faced with a dilemma: Instruction is seldom diverse and rarely influenced by non-European perspectives. With the aim of deconstructing the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on teachers to join students and learners in the debate on the decolonisation of education. Ramaphosa was speaking at the opening of the 10th Education ...