South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs

By Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise, Associate professor, University of South Africa
Maureen Robinson, Professor, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University

South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major contributions in areas like the biomedical sciences, palaeontology and astronomy

Good research matters. It can have broad, positive consequences. On paper South Africa’s government recognises this. The 2019 White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation points…

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