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Five ways universities have already changed in the 21st century

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imageLots has changed, but not this. Students graduating by michaeljung/www.shutterstock.com

Global higher education underwent a period of remarkable change in the first 15 years of the 21st century. Five key trends affecting universities around the world illustrate how, despite increased access to information, our understanding of higher education...

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South Africa needs a professional civil service

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imageThe Union Buildings in Pretoria, home to South Africa’s government. Public confidence in civil servants has been severely eroded Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Endless factional battles, suspensions, resignations, golden handshakes, graft, cronyism. These are symptoms not only of institutional dysfunction but also of a failing public service in South...

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South Africa needs a new way to address the doctor shortage

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imageThere is a skewed distribution of skilled staff and an imbalance of skills. Andreea Campeanu/Reuters

Millions of South Africans are missing out on basic health care because of a skewed system that fails to make use of all the country’s skilled health professionals.

It is public knowledge that there are not enough doctors in the South African pu...

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  4. Is Australia a secular country? It depends what you mean
  5. Beware secular fundamentalism: we need to be open to religion's role in a troubled world
  6. Quake recovery can leverage change of lasting benefit to Nepal
  7. No-show king is a non-issue in Camp David summit between US and its Gulf allies
  8. Budget entrée disappoints but PBS reform still on the menu
  9. Taxation by stealth: bracket creep and the budget
  10. Supermarket price deals: the good, the bad and the ugly
  11. Judge suspects but must acquit man on child pornography charges
  12. We need to get smarter to save shorebirds from rising seas
  13. Location matters most to parents when choosing a public school
  14. Post budget, we need strong cultural leaders more than ever
  15. Let’s appoint a judge to investigate bizarre wind farm health claims
  16. Verizon could learn a thing or two from Comcast about how to make most of its new cash cow
  17. Deathly dull content, but the release of Prince Charles letters is a landmark moment
  18. Sorry Prince Charles, the British government isn't a soft play area
  19. Here's what baboons can teach us about social media
  20. Chinese industry gets an overhaul but there's no end in sight to cheap labour
  21. How migrant crisis could lead to the break-up of the EU
  22. UK government bids to ban free speech in counter-terrorism plan
  23. How George Osborne built a power base from pragmatism
  24. Election this year? It seems unlikely
  25. A major lesson from Ebola: pandemics are strongly driven by inequality
  26. The fight to preserve Elfdalian, Sweden's historic lost forest language
  27. UK elects most diverse parliament ever but it's still not representative
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  29. Nepal hasn't had time to learn from the first earthquake but NGOs can prepare for future
  30. Cash is not king: Jeb Bush's Super PAC problem
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  36. In an iconic airport terminal, the last vestiges of a bygone era
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  38. Bangladesh blogger killings have roots in independence struggle
  39. Awareness campaigns need to target the real victims of ice
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  41. Bacteria on shoes could help forensic teams catch suspects
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  43. Why single blood markers for disease will become a thing of the past
  44. Schools haven't always been the safe havens of today's 'mini welfare states'
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