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/ 19 February 2008
Sophie Gilbert thinks journalism as a university course is viewed less seriously in Britain than in the United States. So when she wanted to pursue a postgraduate degree, she enrolled at New York University. “Journalism is not ‘just’ a vocational postgraduate course [in the US],” says the 24-year-old former magazine journalist from London.
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/ 19 February 2008
The Wits Business School (WBS) continues to provide its students with unique opportunities to integrate their academic learning with real work experience. The school will offer its full-time students internship at prestigious organisations during their study programme.
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/ 19 February 2008
They treat their Nobel prize winners rather differently in the United States. Forty-five years after winning the Nobel prize — along with British scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins — for discovering the structure of DNA, James “Jim” Watson is still regarded in the US as quasi-royalty.
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/ 19 February 2008
While many Iraqi professionals take advantage of the "brain drain" robbing the war-ravaged country of its best talent, one man has vowed to stand his ground and care for the brains that remain. With little money but a great deal of passion, Munir Faraj (40) is the last remaining neurosurgeon still working amid the chaos and sectarian barbarism that grips modern-day Iraq.
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/ 19 February 2008
Is there anything that has not yet been said or contested about skills shortages? Most literate South Africans are aware of the shortage of teachers, engineers, ICT professionals and artisans. Almost as many have some insight into strategies like Jipsa (through Asgisa), and the recapitalisation of the further education and training colleges.
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/ 19 February 2008
The UCT Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) will launch a new programme this year specifically designed to develop women leaders in South Africa. Dr Marjolijn Dijksterhuis, director of the new Women in Leadership Programme, says it is designed for women with proven leadership capacity who want to develop to their full professional potential.
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/ 19 February 2008
Can you draw? Do you have your matric? Can you communicate readily in English? Yes? Then you have the basic qualifications required to study in one of the most stimulating and interesting businesses in the world today: animation. Or do you want to make a career out of your communication skills? Then the powerful medium of radio could well be for you.
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/ 19 February 2008
President Thabo Mbeki has set himself 24 tasks, listed alongside, for completion before he leaves the political stage in 2009. This is typical of the managerial style that has characterised his presidency, but the 24 tasks also reveal the constraints he has faced for several years now
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/ 19 February 2008
”When do you go back to work?” asks an in-law, over a New Year’s Day braai, curious about the apparent peculiarities of academic life. “Well, there’s admin stuff to do starting next week, though teaching proper doesn’t begin till the end of February” I explain; “but at the moment I’m really trying to get to grips with my writing and research projects. What I’m working on right now -”
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/ 19 February 2008
South Africa is not producing a sufficient number of free and critical thinkers, and this raises questions such as “Why is this the case?” and “Why is our higher education system failing in this respect?” — and, perhaps less obviously, “Does South African society need free and independent thinkers?”