HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia shares more about why they are urging university leadership to prioritise safety at institutions in anticipation of the fourth wave of COVID-19.

Thembikile Mrototo is in discussion with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia about the mental toll exacted on many of South Africa’s university because of the pandemic, loadshedding and various other factors.

Aldrin Sampear is in discussion with HIGHER HEALTH CEO Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia following the Council of the University of Cape Town’s overwhelmingly favourable vote for mandatory vaccination to access campus. The policy will come into effect on the first of January. 

Amid concern that COVID-19 vaccinations in South Africa are not meeting the set targets, the higher education and training sector is once again calling on students to get vaccinated. This as some universities have been contemplating mandatory vaccination for both staff and students and that those not vaccinated must undergo weekly testing at their own cost. HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, takes a look at the ethics around this matter.

Presenter is in conversation with HIGHER  HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, about students been called on to vaccinate before going back to tertiary classes. 

A panel discussion on the emotional and developmental effect of COVID-19 on children, high school and university students due to limited social interaction with Likho Bottoman, Director for Social Cohesion DBE; Prof Boitumelo Diale, Educational Psychologist at the University of Johannesburg; Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of HIGHER HEALTH; and Khanyisile Mateke from Rhodes University.

As some companies are considering the possibility of implementing mandatory vaccination, the post-schooling education and training sector has been advised to give more time for the national vaccination drive to mature before introducing harder mandatory vaccination approaches. This plea comes after some universities have been contemplating mandatory vaccination for staff and students. HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, explains the agency’s role in encouraging individuals, including students, to be vaccinated.

As some companies are considering the possibility of implementing mandatory vaccinations, the post-schooling education and training sector has been advised to give more time for the national vaccination drive to mature before introducing harsher mandatory vaccination approaches. The CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, explains the agency’s role in encouraging individuals, including students, to be vaccinated.

While institutions of higher learning debate mandatory vaccinations, HIGHER HEALTH says while students could be required to produce negative COVID-19 tests before attending contact classes, enforcing vaccinations would be premature. HIGHER HEALTH CEO – Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia – stresses that the focus must rather be on addressing vaccine hesitancy and promoting vaccinations.

While institutions of higher learning debate mandatory vaccinations, HIGHER HEALTH says university and college students could be required to produce negative COVID-19 tests before attending contact classes. HIGHER HEALTH CEO – Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia – shares more information on this topic.

Over 13.8 million vaccine doses have been administered in the country. This includes the post-schooling education and training sector which is playing a major part in making vaccination appealing and accessible to the 2.5 million youth who have recently become eligible. Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia – HIGHER HEALTH CEO – joins in for more on this.

Approximately 14 million vaccine doses have been administered in South Africa. The National Department of Health says that one quarter of South African Adults have been fully vaccinated. Stephen Grootes is in discussion with the Higher Health CEO Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy. 

South Africa has taken a step towards curbing gender based violence at institutions of higher learning. HIGHER HEALTH South Africa has released a set of instruments, guidelines and protocols that will help turn the sectoral GBV policy framework into practical implementation across campuses at institutions of higher learning. The document containing these protocols was released during a webinar on GBV in the higher education sector.

On Friday, 27 August, HIGHER HEALTH  released instruments that will help strengthen the fight against gender based violence at tertiary institutions. The agency aims to encourage management, unions and student leaders to take personal accountability through a policy framework. Higher Education and Training Minister, Blade Nzimande, launched that framework in 2020.

As the country is still reeling with shock from the brutal murder of Nosicelo Mtebeni, another tragedy has struck the University of Fort Hare. A student died after falling from a building in a suspected suicide incident. The CEO of Higher Health, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, discusses security, mental health and general wellness as well as measures taken to ensure that Fort Hare students can get counselling.

The presenter is in discussion with Thobekile Finger, Director at HIGHER HEALTH, about the brutal killing of University of Fort Hare student and the measures available to all students to help.

HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, speaks to Channel Africa about the post-schooling education and training sector’s COVID-19 vaccination drive.

HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, discusses the actions to be taken following the tragic incidents at the University of Fort Hare this past week.

Higher Health – the health, wellness and development centre of the post schooling education and training sector (PSET) – is helping all public and private institutions, including skills-based learning centres, get ready to vaccinate staff and students who are 18 to 35 years old. To discuss this further is HIGHER HEALTH CEO Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia.

Wits University has lost two students to suicide in the last two weeks. The institution’s SRC has called on the university to have a 24-hour window period opened to all students who might feel pressured without being subjected to any documentation process. Interviews with SRC president and CEO of HIGHER HEALTH.

As part of Youth Month, the Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr. Blade Nzimande, visited the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and received the results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 on students in the post-school education system conducted by HIGHER HEALTH and the HSRC. Higher Health CEO Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, discusses the results of the study.

Prof Ahluwalia unpacks the results of the study of COVID-19 on students, which has not been a focus of much other research. Students are the same young people who grapple with family loss and economic stress.

Mister Nzimande expresses appreciation of HIGHER HEALTH’s PSET COVID-19 response sighting the training of 12 000 students to help implement guidance and protocols designed to protect campus communities and the broadersociety.

As part of Youth Month, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande released the results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 on youth and students. The findings confirmed the extent of the lockdown on factors crucial to student ability to follow education and training, including internet connectivity; access to devices, data and study material; financial struggles; food security; loss of social contact; loss of family members; access to transport, medical care and chronic medication. Minister Nzimande and Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, the CEO of HIGHER HEALTH explain how the lessons will get the sector and the country closer to the end of this pandemic – and be more prepared when a similar serious public health emergency happens in the future.

Prof (Dr) Ahluwalia, CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, speaks to The Pulse on Newzroom Afrika supporting the move by the Tshwane University of Technology to close its doors in response to the cluster outbreak. As he says the virus does not spare anyone.

Following the death of a student due to COVID-19 related complications, the Tshwane University of Technology has suspended all contact lectures and resumed online teaching and learning. Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, unpacks the high numbers of infections across the country.

There are growing calls for government to ramp up its rollout of vaccines as it is crucial to controlling the coronavirus as the third wave of infections looms. The country has recorded 4 424 new infections in the past 24 hours testing cycle with 93 deaths. Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, the CEO of HIGHER HEALTH discusses this and other COVID-19 related developments.

Following the recent announcement by the Health Department that COVID-19 variants dominant in the UK and India have been detected in the country, there is now growing concern that South Africa could experience a substantial third wave of Coronavirus infections. To share information about mutant variants and how the virus is acting is Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia, HIGHER HEALTH CEO.

Presenter is in discussion with Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of Higher Health, about the coronavirus pandemic in India and what South Africa can learn from this COVID-19 variant.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says it continues to monitor Covid-19 trends both nationally and abroad. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has confirmed that the B.1.617 variant COVID-19 variant currently affecting India has not been detected in South Africa. Presenter is in discussion with Higher Health CEO Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia about the Covid-19 variant in India.

The Health Ministry has noted concerns on social media about the possible import into South Africa of the Coronavirus variant discovered in India. Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of Higher Health, discusses the so-called double mutant Covid-19 variant and the crisis in India.

The Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Blade Nzimande, has sought the involvement of HIGHER HEALTH, an agency of his department concerned with the health and mental wellbeing of students. To discuss the matter the presenter is joined by HIGHER HEALTH Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Ramneek Ahluwalia.

HIGHER HEALTH has expressed concern with reports of cluster COVID-19 outbreaks within student communities. This comes as over a hundred students have tested positive for the virus at the University of Pretoria. HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia has told the SABC they have scaled up their screening and testing numbers to over 6 000.

There are concerns over the increase of Covid-19 positive cases at institutions of higher learning. This follows a cluster outbreak at the University of Pretoria where 115 students tested positive for the virus since the 19th of March.

The Department of Higher Learning and Training has urged institutions, students and staff to continue following COVID-19 safety protocols. There’s growing concern of possible cluster outbreaks at institutions of higher learning. This comes after more than a hundred students from the University of Pretoria tested positive for the virus since the 19th of March. Includes interview with Dr (Prof) Ahluwalia, CEO of HIGHER HEALTH.

The University of Pretoria has confirmed that the number of students who have tested positive for covid-19 has increased to 100. The institution says management believes that the virus has been contracted off campus at one of their pubs or restaurants. Higher Health CEO, Prof Ramneek Ahluwalia joins in for more.Newzroom Afrika.

Higher Health is on a mission to test all possible contacts of 55 students at the University of Pretoria who tested positive for COVID-19. The agency says it’s working with National Health Laboratory Services to speed up the result after concerns that some of the affected students may have gone home for the Easter celebrations. The CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, Dr (Prof) Ahluwalia, is interviewed.

Phemelo Motene interviews HIGHER HEALTH CEO to discuss a concern that they have picked up on an increased number of students reported to be infected with Covid-19. SAfm.

Students are being encouraged to continue observing Covid-19 safety measures as they will be returning to institutions of learning. HIGHER HEALTH says this might assist in curbing the spread of the virus. HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia speaks about this.

The Higher Education Department has confirmed that 55 students at the University of Pretoria have tested positive for COVID-19. For more Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of Higher Health, is interviewed to raise awareness to help limit outbreaks.

HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr (Prof) Ahluwalia, is urging this year’s first year and returning students to prioritise their health. The agency warns about historical health challenges such as HIV, substance abuse and mental health issues that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Channel Africa’s Midday Report speaks with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr (Prof.) Ramneek Ahluwalia, about the need for 2021’s first year students not to take their youthful strength and health for granted but to prioritise and protect it.

In conversation with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia, about student health ahead of the new academic year.

SABC’s The Agenda followed the opening address by the Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande of the HIGHER HEALTH webinar on managing the second wave of COVID-19 within the post-school sector.

Power Update followed Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Dr Blade Nzimande’s address at the HIGHER HEALTH webinar this morning. The webinar focussed on plans to manage the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic in the higher education sector and how vaccination will be rolled out.

On Newzroom Afrika’s show – Flatten the Curve – the presenter talks to Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia from HIGHER HEALTH about plans for improved health and safety at universities.

Listen as Songezo Mabece of SAfm’s The View Point converses with the CEO of Higher Health, Dr (Prof) Ramneek Ahluwalia on how the post-schooling sector is gearing up for the challenges of the 2021 academic year.

Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Blade Nzimande on Friday released Higher Health’s latest protocol for the post-school education and training sector on how to conduct invigilated examinations during the Covid-19 pandemic. HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia elaborates on the three-pronged approach to safe exams.

There is a slight concern from Higher Education that there are cluster outbreaks happening around campuses. Presenter is in discussion with Fort Hare University SRC President Siphiwo Ngcenge about the cluster outbreaks and HIGHER HEALTH CEO Professor Ramneek Ahluwalia.

As some tertiary education students gear up to begin writing examinations, how healthy is the environment at these institutions given the most extraordinary seven months South Africans have been through? Morning Live speaks with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, on the preparedness of universities and TVET colleges, how COVID-19 has affected students and where help can be found.

As some tertiary education students gear up to begin writing examinations, how healthy is the environment at these institutions given the most extraordinary seven months South Africans have been through? Morning Live speaks with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, on the preparedness of universities and TVET colleges, how COVID-19 has affected students and where help can be found.

On Friday HIGHER HEALTH’s latest protocol for the post-school education and training sector on how to conduct invigilated examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic was released. Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, discusses these guidelines to safe exams with Jane Dutton on ENCA.

Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Blade Nzimande on Friday released Higher Health’s latest protocol for the post-school education and training sector on how to conduct invigilated examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic. HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia elaborates on the three pronged approach to safe exams.

28 September Lotus FM: Interview with HIGHER HEALTH CEO, Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, on efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 at institutes of higher education in SA that are underway. A new policy framework developed by the Department of Higher Education and Training now compels institutes of higher education to take the coronavirus more seriously with the introduction of 10 mobile health clinics at disadvantaged campuses.

Newzfeed Weekend discussed how examinations will take place in person with the CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia as South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are readying themselves for the return of students allowed by lockdown level 1 regulation as the December examinations will take place. The Department of Higher Education with HIGHER HEALTH developed and released a set of guidelines to ensure that the post-schooling education and training sector is protected from cluster outbreaks.

26 September SABC News: Higher Health, an institution devoted to student health, wellness and psycho-social wellbeing in the post-schooling education sector recently launched 10 fully furnished mobile clinic units, and the units will enhance health services at TVET, CET colleges and universities around the country. Now to discuss this further Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, HIGHER HEALTH CEO joined SABC’s SA Today programme via Zoom.

On 17 September SAfm’s the Viewpoint discusses the provision of ten fully furnished mobile clinic units to render health services at TVET Colleges around the country by HIGHER HEALTH in partnership with the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation with HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia.

HIGHER HEALTH CEO Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia discusses health challenges at TVET colleges and how ten fully furnished mobile clinic units launched on 17 September will help to enhance health services in these institutions of higher learning. The health fleet programme is driven by HIGHER HEALTH, a national agency that is devoted to student health and wellness in partnership with the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.

Host of #TheMainSwitch, Rapz, is in conversation with the CEO of HIGHER HEALTH, Dr. Ramneek Ahluwalia. HIGHER HEALTH is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of nearly two million students in the post-school education system. They have an extensive chat about Condom and STI Awareness, the stigmas surrounding it and what HIGHER HEALTH is actively doing to create this awareness.

HIGHER HEALTH is urgently calling on all higher education institution leaders to come up with accountability processes to help improve the safety and wellbeing of women across campuses. Courtesy #DStv403

Vice-Chancellors at all 26 universities have called for a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss the scourge of gender-based violence.

We are now in conversation with HIGHER HEALTH, a national entity that works on behalf of the Department of Higher Education and Training and under the governance of Universities South Africa

HEAIDS Director Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia on the progress of HIV Prevention and Treatment in South Africa

HEAIDS Director Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia on the progress of HIV Prevention and Treatment in South Africa

HEAIDS Director Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia reports about important findings at the AIDS 2014 Conference in Australia

About the AIDS 2014 Conference

About the “HEAIDS Future Beats Launch”

About the “HEAIDS Future Beats Launch”

About the “HEAIDS First Things First Launch at Goldfields”