Manamela flags funding, AI and transformation challenges in universities

Universities must rethink their future Manamela challenged the higher education sector to consider whether the current university system adequately responds to the country’s challenges, including inequality, climate change, AI, the future of work and the unfinished work of democracy.

Manamela challenged the higher education sector to consider whether the current university system adequately responds to the country's challenges Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela is calling for South African universities to confront challenges around funding, student debt, institutional stability and transformation, warning that expanding access without strengthening institutions could undermine the sector.“If we were designing our university system today, knowing what we know about inequality, artificial intelligence, climate change, the future of work and the unfinished work of democracy, would we design the system we currently have?”