Special Report
Getting Ahead May 2010

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UFS to keep tabs on World Cup doping

The South African Doping Control Laboratory boasts new state-of-the-art equipment worth R3.9-million to perform doping tests.

Listen to the fine print

They have found a way to produce electronic ink from tiny silicon particles -- nanoparticles, to be precise (one thousand millionth of a metre).

Creative spark brightens Tshwane

Business school director wants to shed the conservative image, writes Lionel Faull.

Searching for strange life in the desert

Interesting things have been found under the rocks in the Namib. Tarryn Harbour reports.

The tenderpreneurs dictionary

An anonymous -- but well-known -- South African academic offers the following localised and updated version of The Devil's Dictionary.

From girls to graduates

A project aims to increase the number of women scientists and engineers, Vuvu Vena reports.

Universities get a bad haircut

The Higher Education Summit in Cape Town in April addressed concerns about the poor performance of the higher education system.

Too many chiefs

One voice was significantly absent from the conversation at Blade Nzimande's recent higher education summit -- that of chalk-face academics.

The trouble with transformation

We need to understand why we have failed the intellectual, ethical challenge, writes Lis Lange.