PhD candidate wins international green award
AchieversUniversity of Cape Town November 14, 2017
PhD candidate Megan Lukas was one of 25 young scientists honoured with a Green Talents award at the International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development, which took place in Germany during October. The Green Talents award is conferred by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to... Read more
Budding academic clinches international scholarship
AchieversCape Peninsula University of Technology November 14, 2017
A CPUT staffer is going to Ireland next year after being awarded a full doctoral scholarship. Aifani Tahulela, a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, has been selected by the AESOP Project to undertake PhD studies in Global Human Development at University College Dublin. Tahulela... Read more
Ex-prisoner turned coder encourages E-Skills graduates
AchieversVaal University of Technology November 13, 2017
Vaal University of Technology E-Skills graduates received an inspirational send off at their graduation ceremony last week. They were addressed by keynote speaker Mr Sihle Tshabalala who has become well known for this transformation from convict to coder. Mr Tshabalala, the co-founder and CEO of Quicky 30, a digital... Read more
Academic conquers tough SA cycle race
Achievers November 11, 2017
Graduate School of Business and Leadership lecturer Dr Pfano Mashau showed his prowess on two wheels when he completed the 2017 Amashova Durban Classic Cycle race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban. Competing in the demanding race for the first time, Mashau said pushing through cramps and other challenges involved in... Read more
UWC Dentists sinking their teeth into research
AchieversResearchUniversity of the Western Cape November 10, 2017
Dentistry is a very hands-on subject – and in many ways, it lends itself more to training clinicians, not academic researchers. But the University of Western Cape’s current crop of fifth year BChD (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) students is bucking that trend. This year a trio of students won... Read more
UKZN’s shining star off to Oxford on the esteemed Rhodes Scholarship
AchieversUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal November 10, 2017
Current final year medical student at UKZN, 24-year-old Mr Kumeren Govender, has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes scholarship 2018 for travel, living and study expenses at Oxford University, England. Oxford was recently ranked as number one in the world by The Times Higher Education World Rankings of Universities. Govender... Read more
Alumna receives prestigious Skye Foundation Scholarship
Achievers November 10, 2017
Ms Natasha Ashley, an alumna of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been awarded a prestigious Skye Foundation Scholarship for the 2017 intake. She is currently studying towards a Master of Science (MSc) degree in International Business and Emerging Markets at... Read more
NRF rated Professor Okosun – a maths genius and true leader of our times
AchieversVaal University of Technology November 9, 2017
Appreciation is a wonderful thing because it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well, which is why we give credit to an extraordinary researcher here at Vaal University of Technology, Professor Kazeem Okosun. With his iron persistence and resolute determination, Prof Okosun, is now officially... Read more
The Vaal University of Technology’s book store, Van Schaik launched a charity project ‘Good luck with the exams’ aimed at sponsoring needy students. The project was initiated by the store’s national head office in Cape Town and their Marketing Manager Ms Margaret Vyver-Rambau. Ms Vyver-Rambau contacted VUT to identify... Read more
A team of dedicated heart surgeons, clinicians and medical engineers at Strait Access Technologies (SAT) – a UCT start-up company – has perfected a heart valve that will save millions of lives. This breakthrough comes on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the world’s first heart transplant, by Professor... Read more
