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Surveillance technology is increasingly being used to monitor civilians.

Digital occupation: How surveillance technologies repress dissent from Gaza to Cape Town

This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled

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Academics say claims by politicians and on social media are fueling xenophobia and could compromise their safety. Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance /Getty Images

University students still go to lectures hungry: A problem 30 years after democracy

Many students come from families who are struggling, and poverty follows most of the students through the university gates

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A university that teaches but does not innovate, that researches but does not apply, will find itself detached from the society it is meant to serve and elevate

What comfort zone for Gen Z students, Rafael Winkler?

Young people have a desire for collective and meaningful ways to think together about a problem

  • Tamlyn February
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Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

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Thousands of jubilant matriculants will be celebrating the end of 12 years of secondary schooling.

Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Students and faculty members march after New York Police Department (NYPD) officers arrest students at New York University (NYU) and The New School who are demanding universities divest from Israel. One pro-Palestinian detained by the police during the march. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Is Palestine the new Vietnam for university students in the US?

Young people across America are staging protests on their campuses against US support for Israel’s unjust war against Palestinians

  • Eyaaz
4 min read