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Student surgeons climb Kili for dialysis machine
Amy Booth and Nicholas Loxton of UCT’s Surgical Society talking about the Kilimanjaro climb and the society’s other projects. Video by Saadiq Behardien UCT’s Surgical Society is planning to summit the daunting Mount Kilimanjaro this December to raise funds to buy a life-saving kidney dialysis machine for Groote Schuur... Read more
Graduating with Cum Laude against all odds
Against all odds, DUT’s Philiswa Dlamini graduated cum laude in her Degree of Master of Health Sciences in Dental Technology during the Faculty of Management Sciences session on the 13 September 2017. The success of the 29-year-old from Inanda could not be determined by her background as she strived... Read more
DUT graduation numbers continue to increase
Graduation numbers at the Durban University of Technology have continued to increase. The 2017 Spring graduation ceremony took place on Wednesday, 13 September 2017 at the Fred Crookes Sports Centre on the Steve Biko campus in Durban. A total number of 1029 students will graduate during the DUT September... Read more
SU’s sport science department and museum present conference on decolonising sport
The Department of Sport Science at Stellenbosch University (SU) and the SU Museum is presenting a two day conference themed “Decolonising Sport Historical Themes”. The conference, to be held from 15-16 September 2017 at the SU Museum in Ryneveld Street in Stellenbosch, is to all accounts the first of its... Read more
Chemistry students develop water saving measures for labs
Three chemistry students at Stellenbosch University (SU) have reduced their laboratory’s water consumption by at least 3 000 litres per week by coming up with innovative and relatively inexpensive ways of saving water. Four months ago PhD students Monica Clements, Jonathan Hay and Anton Hamann started to conduct trials in... Read more
UP track champion graduates with Information Science degree
Akani Simbine, 2016 Rio Olympics finalist in the 100 metres, South African record holder in the 100 metres sprint, and Diamond League gold medallist, graduated at the University of Pretoria (UP) with a Bachelor of Information Science on Friday, 8 September. The proud Tuks alumnus describes his experience at the University... Read more
AB InBev and Stellenbosch University: Partnership will increase research into beer ingredients
Agronomists and food scientists of Stellenbosch University have partnered with the multinational beverage and brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev). The R6 million funding that is being received allows them to tackle specific issues over the next three years related to the production of barley. It will also... Read more
Doctoral graduate shares his love for education with his community
For Graduate School of Business and Leadership academic and doctoral graduate Dr Njabulo Khumalo contributing to a bursary fund at his church is how he shares the gift of education with his community in Umlazi, Durban. After being appointed Chairperson of the Education Committee of the Parish of Umlazi... Read more
VUT to help fill SA’s specialist teaching gaps
The Vaal University of Technology (VUT) has once more committed itself to improving the education of the nation by adding a Bachelor of Education (B Ed SP & FET Teaching), for Initial Teacher Education, to its offerings from 2018. However, this is no ordinary B.E d, in that it... Read more
Alumni advance excellence
Ten recent graduates from UCT’s Department of Chemical Engineering will be completing their master’s degrees abroad, with the bulk of students attending the University of Cambridge in the UK. “In academia, we highly value it when our students decide to go one level further because we need to know... Read more