“WSU Proud Custodians of EC Traditional Bead History”
arts and cultureEastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University April 14, 2021
It’s been 29 years since a highly-prized 3000-piece hand-stitched bead collection from the tribal nations of abaThembu, amaMpondo, amaMpondomise, amaXhosa amaBomvana and amaXesibe in the Eastern Cape was handed over to WSU for preservation. Approximately two-thirds of the Broster Bead collection is made up of Xhosa beaded objects of... Read more
More than 20,000 teachers from around the world will come together on Saturday, the 17th of April to recognise the leading role teachers have played in developing digital and educational solutions to the pandemic crisis at the inaugural T4 Education Teacher Tech Summit. The COVID-19 outbreak sparked the biggest... Read more
Forge Academy students participate in successful tri-continental hackathon
CareersLatest news April 14, 2021
Students from Forge Academy, South Africa’s first fully inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) laboratory, recently took part in a tri-continental hackathon between students from South Africa, Finland and the USA. Organised by EduExcellence, the Finnish education specialists; the South African leg was hosted at Forge Academy in Gauteng. Student... Read more
WSU commemorates 36 years of medical excellence
AchieversEastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University April 13, 2021
The enormous strides and invaluable achievements made by WSU’s health sciences faculty in the educational and medical fraternity over the past 36 years are set to be commemorated in a glitzy affair organized by WSU Convocation set to take place in East London on Saturday 10April. Approximately 120 past... Read more
Student Funding and Higher Education in South Africa: What to do?
Free StateLatest newsUniversity of the Free State April 13, 2021
With a COVID-hit, shrinking economy and a mounting public debt burden, the Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni, announced a tight budget in February 2021. This budget also constrained its allocation to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). Within the DHET budget, the allocation to the National... Read more
“Greener” UN treaty could help promote socio-economic rights – LLD graduate
Latest newsStellenbosch UniversityWestern Cape April 12, 2021
Any efforts to eradicate poverty and guarantee the economic, social and cultural rights of people globally will be unsuccessful if we don’t take the threats of environmental degradation and climate change seriously. This is the view of environmental law and human rights expert Dr Megan Donald, who obtained her... Read more
Africa’s largest inter-university hackathon brings students together on Zindi for data science, for good
Latest news April 12, 2021
UmojaHack Africa 2021 was an unprecedented success, bringing more than 1000 students from 126 universities across Africa to compete on Zindi (www.Zindi.africa) in a virtual machine learning hackathon on the weekend of 27-28 March. More than $10 000 USD in prizes were awarded to data science students from 9... Read more
UFS extraordinary professor appointed to serve in the Constitutional Court
AchieversFree StateLatest newsUniversity of the Free State April 9, 2021
Judge Dhaya Pillay, Extraordinary Professor in the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State (UFS) Faculty of Law, has been appointed an Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Judge Pillay will serve in this capacity in the country’s highest court... Read more
Submit input on SU’s draft revised Language Policy by 12 April 2021
Latest newsStellenbosch University April 9, 2021
Interested parties are reminded that comments on the first draft of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) revised Language Policy (2016) may be submitted up to this coming Monday, 12 April 2021. Comments can only be submitted via a digital platform. A link on the University’s language webpage (www.sun.ac.za/language) provides access to... Read more
Parlez-vous isiZulu? – Arts student publishes a French-IsiZulu Manual of Conversations
arts and cultureLatest newsUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal April 9, 2021
Master of Arts student in isiZulu Studies Mr Mongezi Bolofo recently published a French-IsiZulu Manual of Conversations. This is a first of its kind book where French meets isiZulu. Bolofo collaborated with Dr Michel Lafon, a retired scholar of African languages. ‘The book also has an introduction to isiZulu... Read more
