Parliament questions reliance on foreign academics at universities [SOUND]  

# Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training has raised concerns over the growing reliance on foreign academics at South Africa’s public universities, particularly at professor level. The committee chairperson Tebogo Letsie told SABC News that this continues despite years of government investment in developing local academic talent. Letsie says Parliament wants to assess whether these investments are producing the desired results. He called for improved data on university staffing: