Miraculous tales of people coming back from the dead always make good headlines. Like the story of Canadian toddler Erika Nordby, who wandered outside at night in sub-zero conditions and was later found by her mother, almost frozen solid.
Beaufort West municipal manager Truman Prince was released on R200 bail on Thursday night after being arrested at the local police station following ”outrageous behaviour”. Police spokesperson Captain Eddie Cronje said Prince appeared in the Beaufort West Magistrate’s Court. He will reappear on May 11.
Many assume that being trained in computers equals immediate job opportunities. But the slump in the Information Technology (IT) market that started with the non-event of Y2K and the global economic downturn that followed the 9/11 bombings in the United States have left the industry on shaky ground. The quick rise of dot.com and e-commerce […]
The disciplines of graphic, interior and fashion design are inherently rooted in the creative – but they need to be balanced with enough business and entrepreneurial savvy to be relevant in the context of a developing country. This, says Rick Edmonds, principal of Inscape Design Centre in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is the reason for the focus […]
The Higher Education Quality Committee is responsible for quality assurance of private providers of higher education. We asked Theo Bhengu more about their work in the sector Q: What has been the Higher Education Quality Committee’s (HEQC) main activities since we last spoke to you in February? A: Our section – the Accreditation of Private […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. At least, that was the word from Paris whenever the mail pony got through the barricades. But modernity doesn’t allow for such Gallic bipolarity, and in Chatham, slowly sinking into the freezing mud on the south-eastern outskirts of London, the times have been neither good nor bad, but rather a grey <i>Guardian</i>-reading, egg-poaching, Blair-voting okay.
Schools are increasingly under pressure to run as slick businesses in order to attract top-notch staff, operate according to good governance principles and, importantly, to stay in the red. This was one of the motivations behind the development of distance education institution, the Management College of Southern Africa (Mancosa), which opened its doors in Overport, […]
Christine Hutton* decided to study further after passing matric with exemption and taking a two year break. ‘It was too late to apply at a state university or technikon, so we started looking for a private higher education institution,” says Tracy. Christine enrolled for what the prospectus described as a ‘two year diploma in advanced […]
– Further education and training (FET): Education and training between grades 10 and 12. This is after compulsory schooling but before higher education. It represents levels 2 to 4 of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). – Umalusi: The Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (GET and FET bands). – Higher […]
It’s a case of the sky’s the limit – no matter which country you’re in – for those qualified in the healing arts of aromaptherapy and reflexology. So says founder of the Yaraka School of Holistic Therapies in Durban, Yavanee Singh. In a world abuzz with stress and anxiety, the healing powers of aromatic plant […]