The research reflected in Responding to the Educational Needs of Post-School Youth indicates that in South Africa there are almost three million youth between the ages of 18 and 24 who are not in education, training or employment – a situation which points not only to a grave wastage of talent, but also to the possibility of serious social disruption.

Nico Cloete comments critically on the CHE's recently published The State of Higher Education (2009).

Lidia Brito, CHET board member, has been appointed as the head of the science policy division at UNESCO.

One of the five most cited social scientists in the world, Prof. Castells visited South Africa as part of project to develop an approach to strengthening social theory and PhD training, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.

The report describes the deliberate dismantling of institutional
structures and procedures which then has a curious ‘double’ effect,
namely simultaneous centralisation and decentralisation. The outcome of this process is a complex relationship between the university and the community.