“Excuses” hinder varsity transformation, academics say

This was the conclusion of a discussion at last week’s inaugural Universities South Africa’s higher education conference, held in Pretoria. USAf is a membership organisation representing the country’s universities.

“If it was not for the nGAP programme, I would submit that some of our universities will still be found wanting 25 years down the line.” Mvalo added that, like with demographics, not much had transformed in terms of gender at universities — there is also still a gender pay gap within these institutions.

“Really, do you think we have done no transformation for over 20 years?” he asked. “So take Wits. I know Wits well, but I could use other thousands examples. Wits was 70% white students in 1994, it is 82% black [now]. Wits in gender terms would have had 23 or 24% women academics in 1994, now it is 51%.”

Fundisile Nzimande, a member of the education department’s transformation oversight committee, said it is prudent to spend time looking at the limits and stumbling blocks of achieving transformation in the sector. “For example, we seem to be making excuses about why certain things are not happening… History will really judge us real harshly because we have squandered so much time and resources without showing fair results.

We have a lot of serious problems facing our universities. High fees, the quality of education provided and inadequate research funding among them. That the demographic profile of academics doesn’t match the national demographic is not one of them, save in the minds of the Woke.

Blade needs to learn that entitlement doesn't work in Academics. You may be able to hide a few morons at State Owned Enterprises, but they are swiftly shown up in Academia.

They must do a study on it.

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