Models and mentors
Makaziwe Mandela and Malegapuru Makgoba on campus buzz-words. Two buzz-words are causing a stir in academic circles in the new South Africa. They are "affirmative action" and "transformation". The...
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A clash of two cultures
It's like cod liver oil - no one likes it but you have to take it," says a senior professor at the University of the Wi****ersrand. What is he talking about? As one walks through the campus, one can...
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Great expectations
Hopes are pinned on the National Commission for Higher Education says Mala Singh. The academic year is beginning with the recurring nightmare of aspirant students struggling to gain access and...
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The cape of good hope
Five Western Cape institutions which never used to speak are collaborating frantically. Nelson Mandela personifies the remarkable spirit of reconciliation abroad in South Africa. How does it feel? It...
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Ghosts of past haunt present
Isaac Amuah and Malegapuru W. Makgoba argue that a national assessment of science is needed to start afresh. The science and technology enterprise in South Africa is a product of a flawed civil...
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Who gives the money and where it goes
South African universities and technikons conduct around R700 million (Pounds 108 million) of research and development a year, 80 per cent of which comes from the tertiary sector's general funds,...
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A liberal solution
Mamphela Ramphele describes how Cape Town supports its students. Apartheid's architects intended a clear-cut division between black and white in passing laws to segregate education and creating...
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The bridgemaster
Karen Mac Gregor talks to Ben Ngubane, the new minister of science and technology, on how First World research must work for Third World conditions. A black man drags himself along a bustling street...
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A race against disaster
Brenda Gourlay on a 'vision of fundamental transformation for South Africa', spearheaded by the education service. The largest social upliftment exercise ever in South Africa is under way. Entitled...
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Healthy handover
Karen Mac Gregor witnesses the dawn of provincial cooperation. Around 80 people crowded into the community hall at Sonop, a small town in the sparsely populated North West province of South Africa. A...
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Between three worlds
Can South Africa afford five Afrikaans universities, asks Willie Esterhuyse. Michael is a black student from a rural area in the Transkei. During the holidays he ploughs with oxen and herds his...
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Higher profile
From next week The THES will be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system, available in most academic libraries and on the Internet. It will provide full...
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Return of the natives
One year on from South Africa's first free elections The THES analyses the current state of higher education. A well-qualified foreigner recently accep-ted a chair at a South African university....
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The Women Returners Network has undertaken research for the EU on "Professional Women's Re-entry into the Labour Market: Implications for Training and Employment in Europe" and needs information on...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL R. G. Chambers has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the university, acknowledging his long service and ingenious practical experiments proving important theories in the...