The Media Online’s weekly round up of people, account and business moves in media.
This week’s BIG move: RAPT Creative wins business in Europe, opens offices in the UK and Ukraine
On the back of substantial new business won in Europe at the end of 2020, RAPT Creative has opened satellite offices in the United Kingdom (London) and Ukraine (Kiev). RAPT’s presence in Europe will be overseen by the agency’s head of strategy & consumer insight, Genevieve van Vuuren, who is based in London.
A strategic, innovative and
executional through-the-line agency specialising in concept development,
digital, point-of-sale, PR, live event production and activation, RAPT was
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There seems to be a lull in student protest action across South Africa – but the issues that sparked this year’s protests persist. Many students, for instance, say they still haven’t received their funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), despite some universities putting out statements that suggest the contrary. Here’s what has been happening in higher education.
Durban University of Technology (DUT) hoax
Yesterday more than 5000 prospective students turned up at DUT campus to register. This was as a result of a hoax message doing the rounds that invited “walk-ins’ to register. DUT management has temporarily suspended on-campus registration. Following more violent outbursts today DUT
CPUT ordered to please explain its student discipline process
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - Parliament s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology has ordered Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) to immediately review its disciplinary policy to ensure it provided fairness.
Committee chairperson Philly Mapulane said the committee was concerned about the outcry by the Student Representative Council (SRC) that the policy and processes that the university employed to discipline them, particularly the student leaders, seemed to be unfair and targeted the leaders in order to discourage them from being critical of the university’s leadership.
Mapulane said the students complained that too much power seemed to be vested in the vice-chancellor and the dean of students to suspend them.