South Africa needs sustainable solutions to deal with its mental health treatment gap, delegates heard at a roundtable discussion ahead of World Mental Health Day (WMHD) today. The discussion, “Economy, Equality and Access to Mental Health Services”, was hosted by the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health.... Read more

South Africa’s student funding agency, the National Student Finance Assistance Scheme, has called on currently funded students not to reapply should they be studying in 2018. The agency, which introduced its student-centred model last year, aims to made Nsfas application process easier for students, without having queue or submit... Read more

We are looking for demonstrated leaders between the ages of 25-35 years old, who are doing innovative work in the areas of Business and Entrepreneurship, Civic Leadership or Public Management to apply for this year’s Mandela Washington Fellowship. Finalists will spend six weeks in the U.S.  July-August 2018 at... Read more

Recent investigations by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) have uncovered a disturbing trend by fraudulent online universities that operate through parodying the names and profiles of already existing legitimate institutions. Last week the Department intercepted marketing material seeking to promote the launch of a fake online... Read more

“People seem to have a lot of admiration and respect for girls who are ‘brave’ enough to accept the challenge of engineering,” said Larissa Tredoux, a first-year Matie engineering student. She was one of the speakers at the Faculty of Engineering’s annual Women in Engineering afternoon held on 6... Read more