Habib: Taxing the rich to fund education won’t work

Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib says the country needs to explore viable options to help students pay for tertiary education.
Read moreWits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib says the country needs to explore viable options to help students pay for tertiary education.
Read moreOur students have taught us an important lesson in this past week through the unprecedented uprisings that we have seen not only on our campus but throughout our country.
Read moreIn a lecture entitled: “Transcending the past and re-imagining the future of the South African University”, vice chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Professor Adam Habib, said that government has lacked the will or the imagination to develop historically black universities.
Read moreView the keynote addres by Professor Adam Habib for the 9th Annual Teaching And Learning In Higher Education Conference.
Read moreSpeech delivered at the Ninth Annual Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference
Read moreObserving a tradition sacrosanct to academia, Professor Adam Habib, Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal, has completed the last rite of passage laid out to academics pursuing the professorial status, by delivering his inaugural lecture.
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