Riyaz Patel
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has lauded the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) for producing its 3rd cohort of doctoral graduands, and “your milestone achievement of your 200th doctoral graduand in only 5 years.”
Delivering the keynote address at the NIHSS Annual Doctoral Conference Gala evening, Nzimande said he was pleased to see “first-hand, the efforts, impact and change that the Institute is making to the higher education landscape and in the humanities and social sciences in particular.”
The minister’s spirited address belied the fact that he had landed from the US only two hours before his appearance at the OR Tambo Centre at the Birchwood in Ekurhuleni.
“Whilst we do indeed need to strengthen the STEM disciplines throughout our schooling and higher education system, we dare not allow humanities and social sciences to decline.”
Emphasising and re stating the need for “high standards” in
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