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The National Advisory Council on Innovation has registered a concern over the Grade 10 throughput rate and warned that the government’s target of 75% of university academic staff having doctorates by 2030 is likely to fall short. The National Advisory Council on Innovation has registered a conc...

South Africa: SA universities at risk of losing 10% of academics as they near retirement

Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has cast

The recent autumn graduations at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Vanderbijlpark Campus brought a momentous achievement for one employee in particular – Dr Bonelwa Sidumo.Dr Sidumo, a statistics lecturer and emerging researcher, received her PhD i

Higher Education and Training Minister, Blade Nzimande, says the department is working to ensure that all Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges are involved in some form of entrepreneurship training in the next three years.

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Raising awareness about the dangers of workplace noise, a researcher-practitioner strives to find evidence-based solutions that will benefit people in the real world. She is also training the next generation of audiologists

’Humble but determined’ A tribute to award-winning SA virologist Dr Graeme Jacobs By Share Award-winning virologist Dr Graeme Jacobs was born without a heartbeat, but went on to carve out a glittering academic career for himself. He died last Saturday from Covid-19. The youngest of two children born to Lawton and Mildred Jacobs, he was born via an emergency Caesarean section on April 14, 1982 but would go on to matriculate with distinction from DF Malan Hoërskool in Bellville at t...