Decolonisation will keep UCT on top of world, says vice-chancellor

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'The very act of interrogating a curriculum via a process of transparent discussions ... will ensure our common commitment to open debate and academic freedom.

Phakeng was responding to an open letter about the framework’s supposed shortcomings, signed by dozens of academics, students and alumni.

And it called for an assurance that UCT will not introduce"a colour bar for lecturing in any discipline or at any level". Price established a curriculum change working group in 2016, in the aftermath of #FeesMustFall — what Phakeng described as"significant and increasing pressure arguing that certain lives and parts of our history are neither recognised nor valued in our curriculum".

Addressing Progress SA’s criticisms, Phakeng said:"UCT cannot prescribe a standard framework for all to follow, nor can a colour bar for teaching be introduced or enforced.

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What was the name of the university before colonialism?

Please make it useless or worthless like a piece of crp, asap. You do not understand the world, and have a passion for anything that can fail. Your kids will one day curse you, for messing up SA and our standing in the world of education.. So sad

I bet lower standards required to pass is part of the process of decolonization: Africans always want a lower standard which is shameful of my generation

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