A bitter argument is being waged among some of South Africa's published thinkers. It all began, really, in March, when University of the Witwatersrand Vice-Chancellor Professor Loyiso Nongxa decried the "impoverishment of the national intellectual project". He ascribed it, in part, to low remuneration for intellectual endeavour that had some academics seeking to augment their salaries and resorting to private consultancy, "producing lower-quality work for greater financial rewards, while others become public intellectuals peddling personal opinions and biases as expert knowledge" read more
By Sue Blaine
07 June 2009
Issue: 0079
Source: http://www.universityworldnews.com (Accessed, 11 Aug 2009) |
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