There was huge issues at Stellenbosch with Afrikaans a while ago though. It is a stretch, but one can't help feel that the ANC wants to destabilise the WC.
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There was huge issues at Stellenbosch with Afrikaans a while ago though. It is a stretch, but one can't help feel that the ANC wants to destabilise the WC.
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Stellenbosch management handled that really well I think, unlike UCT. As much as I dislike the ANC you really can't blame them for everything going wrong. Even though they would love to think that it is within their abilities, it clearly is not.
UCT suspends all classes
Cape Town – The University of Cape Town (UCT) has suspended all academic activity at the institution on Thursday and Friday, following a week of student protests.
The university said the decision followed "extensive disruptions and barricades" on campus on Thursday morning.
"[Classes have been cancelled], primarily for the safety of students and staff and to avoid exposing staff and students to unacceptable disruptive behaviour," the university said in an email to students on Thursday morning.
Blended learning models would be implemented to allow for teaching off campus.
The suspension of face-to-face classes excluded the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Business.
The UCT Student Representative Council, whose term is set to finish at the end of this week, previously said it would not allow a fee increase to be implemented.
It promised to "shut down" the university until the institution announces a 0% fee increase, among other things, and promised to escalate mass action in the weeks ahead.
On Wednesday, UCT students disrupted several tests and lectures, in an effort to "shut down" the campus.
Several fire extinguishers were set off during the chaos.
On Wednesday afternoon, roughly 150 UCT and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students marched to Parliament, demanding that President Jacob Zuma release the Fees Commission report he received in August.
Two students, aged 21 and 28, were arrested for contravening the Gatherings Act, Western Cape police spokesperson Andrè Traut told News24.
No injuries or vandalism were reported.
News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/uct-suspends-all-classes-20171026
Cape Town – The University of Cape Town (UCT) has suspended all academic activity at the institution on Thursday and Friday, following a week of student protests.
The university said the decision followed "extensive disruptions and barricades" on campus on Thursday morning.
"[Classes have been cancelled], primarily for the safety of students and staff and to avoid exposing staff and students to unacceptable disruptive behaviour," the university said in an email to students on Thursday morning.
Blended learning models would be implemented to allow for teaching off campus.
The suspension of face-to-face classes excluded the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Business.
The UCT Student Representative Council, whose term is set to finish at the end of this week, previously said it would not allow a fee increase to be implemented.
It promised to "shut down" the university until the institution announces a 0% fee increase, among other things, and promised to escalate mass action in the weeks ahead.
On Wednesday, UCT students disrupted several tests and lectures, in an effort to "shut down" the campus.
Several fire extinguishers were set off during the chaos.
On Wednesday afternoon, roughly 150 UCT and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students marched to Parliament, demanding that President Jacob Zuma release the Fees Commission report he received in August.
Two students, aged 21 and 28, were arrested for contravening the Gatherings Act, Western Cape police spokesperson Andrè Traut told News24.
No injuries or vandalism were reported.
News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/uct-suspends-all-classes-20171026
Lucas Buck
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The students causing these disruptions are in the minority, but 100 -200 students can create havoc if not opposed by other students.
hj2k_x
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Agreed. We wouldn't have tolerated this in my day.
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Yeah, you would've gone all marikana on them, hey?
hj2k_x
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No. Nothing like that. This is a tiny minority of "students". We would have shut it down.
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this is what happens when discipline is a "time-out"
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this is becoming like strike season, every year this time they blow some steam off eh i mean "protest"
just an excuse to do nothing
just an excuse to do nothing
To avoid writing exams.
There is no real scientific method that these rankings follow.
They have no real value.
[video=youtube_share;EtQyO93DO-Q]https://youtu.be/EtQyO93DO-Q[/video]
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Ezcept that when your experienced lecturers leave for greener pastures it WILL have long term impact. This has happened all over SA the past two to three years.
That narrative has been around for much long than two to three years
The brain drain has been talked about for atleast 10 years already and look at that graph again.
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Gawd, you're referencing Adam ruins everything?
JerryMungo
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Not like it has in the past two to three years.
I can post others too, like this one
[video=youtube_share;QLVKRjOCCGQ]https://youtu.be/QLVKRjOCCGQ[/video]
I suppose you have a problem with this guy's views too?
reference?
http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-brie...migration-and-the-brain-drain-in-South-Africa
once again, reading that quotation and looking at that graph, they do not speak to each other
supersunbird
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You say that as if it's a bad thing...
Lucas Buck
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They still end up writing exams.