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Resisting University Capture: Adam Habib, Wits and Fallism

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Resisting University Capture: Adam Habib, Wits and Fallism Universities in South Africa are not in danger of being looted — their assets will not attract the Guptas. But they are in danger of being ‘captured’ by constituencies who do not appreciate their national value or importance and who are content to use any means available …

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IMF report slams SA’s education folly

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Reference: 21 MARCH 2019 - 05:00 by CLAIRE BISSEKER, url: IMF report slams SA'S education folly Without addressing the weak foundations at the primary and secondary school levels, the government’s flagship policy of free tertiary education is likely to deliver disappointing results. At worst, it will prove downright wasteful. This is one of the hard-hitting …

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Pandor concerned by high drop-out rate at SA universities

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Reference https://www.enca.com/south-africa/pandor-concerned-by-high-drop-out-rate-at-sa-universities Tuesday 29 May 2018 - 10:20am JOHANNESBURG – Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concerns about the number of drop-outs at universities. She was responding to a report calling for an urgent need to address the problem at institutions of higher learning. See more ...

7 key phrases Montessori teachers use and why we should use them, too

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Reference: by Christina Clemer Url: https://www.mother.ly/child/7-key-phrases-montessori-teachers-use-and-why-we-should-use-them-too-#close Date: 20 October 2017 Montessori can be hard to sum up in just a few words—it is a philosophy on education and child development that runs deep. It’s a way of seeing the world. I think one of the easiest ways to get an idea for what Montessori means is …

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How important it is to SA current economy

How important it is to have a degree in South Africa’s current economy

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Staff Writer at BusinessTech 27 August 2017 Only four in ten people of working age have a job, with the situation only expected to worsen within the coming years, according to a new report by Statistics South Africa and the Institute for Race Relations. These figures are especially low when compared to many similar economies, while the figure is lowest …

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University fees in 2017

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University fees in 2017: how much it costs to study in South Africa South African universities have come under constant scrutiny for the high cost of education across the board, but could not escape hiking fees in 2017. Following a fee increase freeze in 2016 due to widespread student protests, 2017 once again saw fees …

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The weird and wonderful world of academic Twitter

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Once the realm of celebrities and their beliebers, academics are taking to Twitter: about one in 40 scholars now use the popular microblogging site, according to some sources. While scholarly chat and self-promotion abounds, Twitter also acts as a virtual water cooler, a place where academics go to build community, have some fun, and let off steam. A …

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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

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What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked a great many people, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. This astonished Catmull. Fresh off eight blockbuster successes in a row in …

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Article of the Day: How The Internet Is Destroying Your Brain

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Just Being Online Makes You Really, Really Depressed It has been theorized for basically as long as the Internet has been publicly available that being online can make you seriously, clinically depressed. It’s not an assertion made without evidence, as numerous surveys of infrequent-to-addicted internet users show a positive correlation between their number of web …

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Article of the Day: The Hero Within

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Most people have no idea that the stories inside our heads determine much of what we notice in the world or how we string our observations together to make meanings of them. This suggests that stories that are invisible to us define a good deal of what we experience, so we continue to live these …

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Resisting University Capture: Adam Habib, Wits and Fallism

IMF report slams SA’s education folly

Pandor concerned by high drop-out rate at SA universities

7 key phrases Montessori teachers use and why we should use them, too

How important it is to have a degree in South Africa’s current economy

University fees in 2017

The weird and wonderful world of academic Twitter

Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Article of the Day: How The Internet Is Destroying Your Brain

Article of the Day: The Hero Within

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