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
Wits professor to chair SA medicine regulatory board
ResearchUniversity of the Witwatersrand November 13, 2017
The Minister of Health has appointed Wits Professor Helen Rees to chair the Board of the South African Health Products Authority. Dr Aaron Motsoaledi appointed Professor Helen Rees, Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) as Chair of the SAHPRA earlier this month. SAHPRA, which replaces... 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
Competition creates opportunities for students to develop practical skills
Latest newsStellenbosch University November 10, 2017
Stellenbosch students who participated in a data science competition hosted by Capitec in conjunction with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science not only had to create models to solve a problem, but also had to present and “sell” those models to the industry partner. Students received a sanitised data set... Read more
UKZN SARChI chair awarded WHO grant worth R980 000
ResearchUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal November 10, 2017
The Food Safety and Zoonosis Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) awarded UKZN’s Professor Sabiha Essack a grant worth about R980 000 for a research project she is working on. The project is titled: The Triangulation of Antibiotic Resistance (ABR) from Humans, the Food Chain and Associated Environments... Read more
Baby Blues swing to success
University of Fort HareVarsity Sports November 10, 2017
The University of Fort Hare Ladies Rugby Team known as Baby Blues were crowned Champions of women’s club championships for 2017, this after dethroning defending champions Busy Bee of Cape Town by 22 points to 7.Before the final Baby Blues had first to take on other tough opponents from ... Read more
Future Maties explore the FMHS
CareersStellenbosch University November 10, 2017
A group of 47 matric learners from across South Africa recently visited Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) as part of the annual Visit@Tygerberg. “During the past 12 years, the Visit@Tygerberg programme has been integral in the recruitment and registration of black students selected to... Read more
SU hosts summit on pseudoscience and quackery in healthcare
Latest newsStellenbosch University November 9, 2017
The dangers of pseudoscience and quackery in healthcare will come under scrutiny at a ground-breaking international summit in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Numerous high-profile health and science communication experts will gather at the International Summit on Quackery and Pseudoscience to explore how science communication efforts by the media, scientists, health... Read more
