No image available
/ 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.
No image available
/ 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.
No image available
/ 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.
No image available
/ 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.
No image available
/ 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?”
No image available
/ 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 -”
No image available
/ 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
Click on image for full-size view.
No image available
/ 18 February 2008
Europe’s biggest states recognised the independence of Kosovo on Monday, ending hours of suspense after Prime Minister Hashim Thaci assured his new republic that Western recognition would come ”any minute”. France was first to announce its move after a European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.
No image available
/ 18 February 2008
An unbeaten 58 by Rilee Rossouw led South Africa to a three-wicket victory over the West Indies on Monday, while New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by 98 runs in first-round matches of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Meanwhile, Bangladesh hammered Bermuda by 178 runs while Sri Lanka defeated Nepal by 61 runs.