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JM Coetzee
JM Coetzee

JM Coetzee: Universities head for extinction

A story by

Matthew Blackman

on the 3rd of April 2015. This should take you < 1 minute to read.

JM Coetzee writes a letter published int he M&G to his ex- colleague Prof. Higgins on the decline of academic freedom both in South African universities and the West.

Dear John. 

Thank you for letting me see your essays on academic freedom in South Africa. The general question you address – “Is a university still a university when it loses its academic autonomy?” – seems to me of the utmost importance to the future of higher education in South Africa.

Read more at mng.co.za

Tagged: Academic Freedom, humanities, JM Coetzee, Letter, Mail & Guardian, UCT, University of Cape Town

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