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/ 13 February 2008
In this article the results of the surveys of the experiences of the interviewees during the audit visits to three institutions in 2005 are reported. But the audit visits should not be seen in isolation from the broader, multi-year, multi-phased audit process as a whole. "Audit" should therefore not be equated with "audit visit".
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/ 13 February 2008
Let’s vote on Scorpions One can understand the ANC’s need to heal divisions and consolidate one centre of power, but can the country afford to drain the baby with the bathwater? So I repeat the question posed by Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya: Why the haste? What’s the rationale for the seeming desperation to ‘lose” […]
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/ 13 February 2008
BEE verification agencies seem to be gaining the upper hand in the long-raging and confusing debate over whether to allow self-assessment by businesses of their own BEE scores. According to a trade and industry department guideline, issued in October, self-assessed scorecards will not be recognised.
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/ 13 February 2008
The main development to watch in 2008 will be the implementation of the department of trade and industry’s codes of good practice. So says Rhodes University’s Reg Rumney. He says the existing sectoral charters need to be aligned with these codes and already teething problems are springing up, says Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 13 February 2008
The best way to introduce our university is to say we are luckier than most in Turkey because we have an astronomic observatory, native Japanese teachers in the department of foreign languages and so many ancient ruins nearby that the archaeology department will be digging artefacts for centuries to come.
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/ 13 February 2008
The institution, in Ruimsig, west of Johannesburg, was set up by Australia’s Monash University in 2000/01 as one of two satellite campuses in other countries. The mother institution invested about R450-million in property, equipment and running costs in the South African operation.
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/ 13 February 2008
Nur knew that as a Bedouin — an Arab nomad — living in poverty in Israel’s Negev desert, the likelihood of going to university was remote. As a woman, it was almost unheard of. Tribal norms and finances ruled it out. So the 18-year-old applied in secret to Ben-Gurion University — and was accepted. Nur (a pseudonym) knew that she needed her father’s permission to go and that he had denied it.
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/ 13 February 2008
Worried that a low birth rate could threaten the country’s very survival, Singapore’s government is playing Cupid, using Valentine’s Day to promote romance and marriage. In a city where many singles say they are too busy making money to make love, the government plans to step up its official "Romancing Singapore" campaign on Thursday.
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/ 13 February 2008
Polokwane has come but, apparently, not gone, which might not be such a bad thing. And muted reverberations predict more drastic consequences. In the build-up to the conference, predictions and expectations were the order of the day, writes Nkosinathi Chonco.
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/ 13 February 2008
"My first year was accompanied by excitement — finally I reached what I had wanted. But I was aware that I was in an environment riddled with turbulence and had to address issues without causing too much resistance. As a new person I knew I would be faced with decision-making traps. It was a humbling experience," Professor Irene Moutlana tells Cornia Pretorius.