JONATHAN JANSEN | Everywhere all at once: why the leadership rut at universities?

Here are seven key reasons for the crisis manifesting at all levels of South African higher education authority

21 June 2023 - 22:10

Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere in the Kalahari Desert, you would have noticed that there is a serious collapse in the leadership of our universities across the country. The leadership crisis is unprecedented in scale (many universities at the same time), scope (not only the usual suspects, the rural disadvantaged university) and in severity (captured institutions, in some cases)...

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