The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched
its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme in 1971, with its 'biosphere reserve'concept …

Reflections on the state of Geography around the globe have noted multiple challenges and
opportunities—including a call for the reconfiguring of the discipline as a critical space of …

Higher education institutions dominate research productivity in many parts of the world.
Nonetheless, many academics in developing countries—including Tanzania—perform …

This article conceptualizes “free” higher education as a public good. It draws on a qualitative
study conducted between 2018-2019, exploring academics' understanding of the …

Background: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of
research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and …

This paper explores the challenges of open access in South Africa and draws from
knowledge management concepts and principles to suggest strategies to enhance open …

ABSTRACT The South African Education Research Association (SAERA) was established a
decade ago to provide a national home for all education researchers and scholars and a …

One of the mandates of the National Research Foundation (NRF) is to benchmark research
quality through its rating system, through which individuals who exemplify the highest …

In this research article, we examine why so few of the most promising young scientists in
South Africa, those who obtain a P or'prestigious' rating from the South African National …

This chapter discusses how the country's premier educational research organisation, the
South African Education Research Association (SAERA), has approached building the next …