National Tertiary Education Staff Union @ University of KwaZulu-Natal

Welcome to all our members, truly hope 2008 and the festive season has treated you well.

NTESU would like to gather information on the reasons that people (academic and support staff) are choosing to leave the University. Please complete this form for each of the people that you know have left the institution in the last three years. Please also provide information on those about to leave. The person leaving need not have been a member of NTESU.

http://petitions.ntesu.org.za/ukzn

Extracts from the UNESCO 1997 Recommendations on the rights of higher education teaching personnel - adopted by an assembly that presumably included South Africa.

For Immediate Release

12 November 2008

Sanef expresses concern at the growing cult among institutions to try to curb freedom of expression by instituting disciplinary action against employees for criticising conditions at those institutions.

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) is distressed by the University of KwaZulu-Natal's (UKZN) decision to institute disciplinary proceedings against two of the University's Professors, Nithaya Chetty and John van den Berg. Chetty is a Professor of Physics and van den Berg is a Professor of Mathematics.