More than 1,200 South African academics are warning that the country’s university system is at a tipping point as a result of chronic underfunding.
The researchers from 18 South African universities have signed an open letter to the president Jacob Zuma, higher education and training minister Blade Nzimande and finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
The letter, sent on 11 August and also published in the national weekly newspaper the Mail & Guardian on 15 August, calls on the government to address the “funding crisis” in higher education.
For more, find the article — originally published in Nature — here.