R20m for Mpumalanga education
Latest newsMust-Read March 8, 2018
The Department of Education in Mpumalanga has received the biggest portion of the provincial budget with over R20.97 million, which equates to 43.6% of the total provincial budget for the 2018/19 financial year. Delivering his budget speech on Tuesday, MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Sikhumbuzo Eric Kholwane,... Read more
Sustainable building demands architectural design that aims to minimise negative environmental impacts through efficiency and balance in the use of materials, energy and development space. It is a mindful approach to energy and ecological conservation in the creation of the built environment. This was apparent in the designs submitted... Read more
Don’t let your year go to waste – there are still great options for study in 2018
Latest newsMust-Read March 7, 2018
With the academic year now in full swing, many prospective students who missed out on a space at their chosen institution, or those who considered furthering their studies but left it too late, mistakenly think that their chance will only come around again next year. But education experts say... Read more
A new crop of civil engineering graduates joined the South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd’s (SANRAL) Training Excellence Academy (TEA) in Port Elizabeth. Two of the seven candidates have already worked on-site on SANRAL projects in the Western and Northern Regions but will now spend time at the... Read more
From 30 January to 1 February, Unisa and Prof Hasina Ebrahim, UNESCO Co-chair in Early Childhood Education, Care, and Development, hosted the UNESCO African Collaboration Initiative. The intention of this gathering was to strengthen the understanding of networks that are significant in building capacity in Africa for early childhood... Read more
UCT has been ranked among the top 50 universities in the world in three subjects in the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject: development studies, geography and sport. A further eight subjects are in the top 100. UCT remains one of the top places in the world to research... Read more
Someone once said that going to university is a bit like ‘stepping into the cosmos.’ Everything confusing and massive. That’s why the staff and current students at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) went out of their way to clarify the ‘complexities’ often associated with... Read more
Penny Buthelezi, Market Advisor – Education at Enterprise Ireland Pan African students are turning to Ireland to benefit from the advanced education that catalyzed the Irish economic turnaround A growing number of top pan-African students are moving to Ireland for their tertiary education, reports Enterprise Ireland South Africa. As... Read more
Fine Art student exhibits at prestigious Joburg Gallery
AchieversMust-ReadRhodes University March 1, 2018
Fine Art master’s student Wallen Mapondera is on track in his meteoric rise to international recognition in the art circles. Born in Zimbabwe, the 33-year-old is currently exhibiting a body of work titled Samusha Weiri Dongo at the prestigious SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg from 1 – 24 February 2018. This is... Read more
Dictionary users want to be able to find the words they are searching for and get enough information about those words to make their search worthwhile. But how do dictionary-makers select words and decide how much usage information to include in each dictionary? Space has always been a dictionary-maker’s... Read more
