Manamela Puts AI Among the Reasons to Rethink Universities

Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela has asked whether South Africa would build the university system it currently has, if it were designing one today with full knowledge of inequality, artificial intelligence, climate change and the future of work. “If not, what are we prepared to change, and what must we protect?” He put the question in a keynote at a webinar on the intellectual directions of South African higher education, alongside warnings on funding, student debt and institutional stabi