Professor Puleng LenkaBula has fearlessly accepted the huge responsibility and expectations that come with the VC position at Unisa. On Thursday, 2 September 2021, she will be inaugurated as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Unisa.Read more

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown huge challenges in the path of universities, but they owe it to their lecturers and students not to emphasise rigour and efficiency at the expense of support and community building.Read more

The country is producing an oversupply of graduates in skills that do not support economic growth and employment opportunities created in those sectors are unable to absorb all those graduates, according to a recent public lecture hosted by CEMS.Read more

Eight Unisa students were presented recently with laptops by the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula. “As management, we are confident these devices will make the learning process manageable and seamless.”Read more

With over 38 million active internet users in South Africa, the research landscape has changed. Current issues were debated at a session on Ethics in the age of technological disruption during the recent Unisa ODeL conference, hosted by CEMS.Read more

Dr Perekeme Mutu is proof that with hard work and determination, nothing can stand in the way of one’s dreams. He recently graduated with not one, but two university degrees—achieved simultaneously—an LLB from Unisa and a PhD (Law) from UP.Read more

On his passionate journey to Africanise the university landscape, Unisa alumnus Dr John Mambambo single-handedly translated Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo’s seminal work, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, to ChiShona, thus extending its reach to grassroots level.Read more

Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies and the National Student Representative Council recently presented a virtual student showcase and awards ceremony themed “Transformative research in the advent of global crises”. Read more

Even during difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic that has, among others, hit the higher education sector and the economy, Unisa’s Department of Information Sciences academics bag prestigious scholarships.Read more