Salim Vally is director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), where he has been involved for the last 10 years. Besides this, he is a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. He is also the South African research Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education. With this, Vally does research on marginalized communities and the relation of the university with them. His focus has always been on transformation, social justice and the nexus between education and transforming society.