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There’s currently an increasing focus on short programmes offered by tertiary institutions.  The best of these are typically one-year programmes offering an accredited Higher Certificate qualification that can improve a student’s readiness for tertiary education, make up for a Matric without a bachelor’s pass and enhance critical skills for success not only in their studies to come, but in their future work lives. Dr Jaclyn Lotter, SACAP’s (The South African College of Applied Psychology) Academic Dean, points out that parents and young people are anxious that 2021 ‘doesn’t go to...

The impact of Covid-19 on schooling is an opportunity to restructure education, starting with the home

FAMILY historians everywhere are eagerly awaiting the 1921 census, which FindMyPast will put online in January next year. It will help chart the huge changes that followed the First World War. For the first time information will be available on divorce, names of employers and and detailed aspects of education. It will throw light on the lives of those living in the aftermath – the widows bringing up families alone, the survivors of the conflict continuing with their lives or striking out in new directions, and the estate owners battling death duties. In fact, the 1921 census did not g...

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New options for SA students rejected by universities By Staff Reporter Share CAPE TOWN - The University of Cape Town (UCT) receives eight times the number of applications (32 000 applicants with only 4 200 spots available) that it can accommodate, with the pressure even greater for in-demand degrees such as medicine, engineering, education, accounting, law, and social work. Other universities also report similar or even greater ratios for applications versus the limited number of places available. At the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), they receive ten times the number of applications (91...