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2020-08-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Nurtured to lead

Nozibele Nomdebevana, the Corpus Project Leader and CGS champion for transformation, says that for women, whose actions are grounded in healthy fundamental communal values, leading with ubuntu comes naturally.
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2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate

Mentoring the next generation of female organic chemists

Unisa's Prof Malose Jack Mphahlele is delighted to see that researchers who have qualified under his aegis are making their mark as decision makers in the science academe.
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2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

HE during Covid-19: Not business as usual

For Unisa's Prof David Hedding, lead author of a paper published in the latest issue of the South African Journal of Science, the biggest lesson that the higher education sector has had to learn from the pandemic disruptions has been the need for agility and flexibility in decision-making.

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2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CHS leads the way with research ethics and high research performance

The College of Human Sciences recently launched its new College Research Ethics Committee (CREC) virtually. The new CREC Chair is Dr Kgashane Johannes Malesa.

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2020-08-06 00:00:00.0 | Category: Corporate

How to narrow the gap between what universities produce and what employers expect

Unisa's Angelo Fynn explains how a South African study explored how psychology students benefited from an alternative approach to teaching and learning.

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2020-08-06 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Breaking barriers on the fast track

Safia Mahomed, recently appointed Associate Professor in the College of Law's Department of Jurisprudence, is the only Unisa staff member currently involved in the DHET's Future Professors Programme, which is committed to developing the next-generation transformed professoriate.
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2020-08-05 00:00:00.0 | Category: Unesco, College of Education, Featured, Corporate

Refining a career in open, distance and e-learning

As a postdoctoral fellow in the UNESCO Chair on ODL at Unisa, Dr Mmabaledi Kefilwe Seeletso says you cannot practise something that you have not learnt. You have to adopt a tendency of earning while learning, so that you can appreciate the uniqueness of this philosophy.”
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2020-08-05 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Education, Featured, Corporate

Invisible women, invisible problems

Unisa's Dr Sizakele Matlabe drew attention to her latest research findings on the plight of widows when she was interviewed on The Kings Suite by Metro FM.
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2020-08-03 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

And it's a "Science Oscar" win for…

Unisa congratulates research fellow Dr Vhahangwele Masindi, who received the TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Emerging Researcher at the live-streamed gala event of the prestigious NSTF-South32 Awards.

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