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Five skills healthcare graduates need for a digital future
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How students can protect their mental health during final exams
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Cybersecurity specialist Kiru Pillay appointed Richfield IT dean
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Eight study tips to help students prepare for exams
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Put your phone away: Five ways to study smarter for final exams
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UFS drama student wins bursary to explore storytelling through movement
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Van Tonder, Padayachee claim top honours at Madibaz Sport Awards
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Five affordable foods to help students through exam season
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Publication fees limit choices for African researchers
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Graduates need AI skills – and the judgement to use them
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The University of the Free State (UFS) will be presenting its biggest virtual graduation ceremony so far when students who have completed their qualifications at the end of 2020, will graduate from 19 to 22 April 2021. Part of the week’s graduation proceedings will be the conferral of three...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Final year medical student with a passion for medical writing has just published his first book, titled ‘The Great Medical Student Odyssey- Tales and Adventures in Medical School.’ A biography of Ashiq Pramchand’s journey at UKZN’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, the 194 page book illustrates the incredible...
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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration – which produced the first-ever image of a black hole and of which the University of Pretoria (UP) is an associate institute – has revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the M87 galaxy: what it looks like...
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The Information Design division at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) School of the Arts has been ranked the number one design education institution in Africa and the Middle East by the Loeries. The ranking is based on the 2020 Loerie Awards, the winners of which were recently announced. The Loerie Awards and its...
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Dr Gina Chowa, CSDA Research Associate has been named the Johnson-Howard-Adair Distinguished Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work. This endowed professorship recognises a leading scholar whose work is focused on the impact and influence of poverty on individuals, families...
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