Announcements

SAJHE - Closed for NEW submissions

2025-09-29

Dear Authors and Readers

As many of you are already aware, our webpage was offline for several weeks. Despite the best efforts of our IT team, this was a challenging process to navigate. However, we have successfully upgraded the entire system, which has resolved the issues that caused the downtime.

At the moment, a team is working around the clock to ensure that all content is restored. This process may take some time, and we thank you for your patience as we work through it. We are committed to ensuring everything is functioning correctly.

During this time, the website will be closed to new submissions.

Please take note of this, and submit any new manuscripts on or after 15 January 2026.

We appreciate your understanding and support during this period. We apologise for the inconvenience, but as you know, these are necessary steps. While we hope that everything will go smoothly, life isn’t always perfect. Thank you for your cooperation as we enhance our platform for everyone.

SAJHE Management Team

29 Sep 2025
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Website challenges SAJHE

2025-09-27

Dear SAJHE Authors/Readers

We are aware of the challenges we all have been experiencing with our website following our transition to a new platform the last 2 weeks.

Our IT team is working diligently around the clock to resolve all the issues and bring everything back to normal.

If you are experiencing problems with submissions, we kindly ask for your patience and encourage you to try again in a day or two.

Additionally, if you notice any published content missing from back issues, please rest assured that it will be restored as soon as possible.

We greatly appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to resolve these issues and ensure a smooth experience for all our users.

SAJHE Management Team
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SAJHE Annual Report

2025-03-29

Annual report by the Editor-in-Chief

South African Journal of Higher Education Annual Report 2024
Date: December 12, 2024
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ASSAF-and-SciELO Guidelines for the use of AI (artificial intelligence) Tools and Rexources in Research communication

2024-10-07

The ASSAf Council has endorsed the ASSAf and SciELO Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Resources in Research Communication .

Background:

The original version of this document was tabled at the SciELO 25-year celebration in São Paulo in Brazil in September 2023. The document was circulated to various stakeholders and comments and input were received from members of the ASSAf Council, the Committee of Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA), the National Scholarly Editors Forum (NSEF), the SciELO SA editors and the SciELO SA Advisory Committee, and staff members of the ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Unit.

Council endorsement:

The ASSAf Council requested a few modifications to the Guidelines and the revised Guidelines were subsequently endorsed on 17 September 2024.

Further suggestions:

Due to the fast-evolving nature of AI Tools and Resources, the guidelines will be updated periodically. We invite further suggestions on these guidelines for consideration when the Guidelines are updated.
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ASSAF update on the Code of Conduct for Research

2023-04-28

The submitted copy of the Code is available on the ASSAF wesite : https://www.assaf.org.za/popia-a-code-of-conduct-for-research/
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USING AI AND AI-ASSISTED WRITING TECHNOLOGIES IN ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO SAJHE

2023-04-04
- We recognise that the continuous development of software like Turnitin to detect generic AI-assisted writing such produced with the use of ChatGPT. Our reviewers and editorial committee rely on Turnitin to detect any plagiarism that might appear in the articles and inform authors duly of their responsibility to withdraw such submissions to SAJHE.
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SAJHE Publication dates 2025 Volume 39

2021-01-30

Vol 39(1) 2025 - Published on 1 March 2025

Vol 39(2) 2025 - Published on 27 April 2025

Vol 39(3) 2025 - Published on 4 July 2025

Vol 39(4) 2025 - Published on 23 August 2025

Vol 39(5) 2025 - To be published in September/Oct 2025

Vol 39(6) 2025 - To be published in November 2025
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Ethics Approval

2017-02-13

Requirement for research ethic committee approval Read more about Ethics Approval