Thousands of British teenagers are trying to cheat their way into university by plagiarising stories and phrases from the internet. One in 20 of Britain’s brightest young brains is copying material from the web in an attempt to impress admission tutors, a snapshot study for Britain’s Universities and Colleges Admission Service has revealed.
Only 21,1% of the current deputy vice-chancellors and 27,8% of the deans are women.
A mathematical problem that remained unsolved for more than a century has finally been cracked by an international team of 18 scientists. The puzzle, which is so complex that its handwritten proof would cover an area the size of Manhattan, took researchers four years to unravel.
Chalk it up to naivety, perhaps, but when I left my university bubble at Boston College in the United States to spend a semester studying here at the University of Cape Town, I was expecting a break from Oprah, apple pie and Wal-Mart. But now that I’m here, all I see, hear and eat is tinged with red, white and blue, writes Tom Wiedeman.
A former vice-chancellor of Stellenbosch University and a vastly experienced academic and administrator who has held senior positions in Australia, Chris Brink leaves our shores soon to take up the vice-chancellorship of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. In this interview, he is provoked him into some plain speaking by six wide-ranging questions about the local tertiary scene.
Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted any longer, writes <b>Jane Duncan</b>.
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There has been no change in the government’s wage offer to public servants and strike plans are still under way, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Monday. ”We have not received any approach from them,” said Don Pasquallie, Cosatu spokesperson on the public-service unions.
Fidentia’s curators took another bite out of J Arthur Brown’s empire on Monday when they secured control over the multimillion-rand Facets property in Cape Town’s Century City. The curators were granted an order by Cape High Court Judge Daniel Dlodlo putting the property, registered in the name of the Brown family trust, into their hands.
A father of four who bashed in his wife’s head with a hammer and then claimed it was her own fault for threatening to leave him lost his appeal in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Judges Lettie Malopa and Brian Southwood dismissed an appeal by Phillimon Thole (36) of Jouberton against his conviction and sentence.