UWC this week launched its Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science, a venture with the NRF and the science and technology department.
Astronomer Phil Charles has been cleared of all charges against him — but the fallout from his extraordinary disciplinary hearing continues.
Fallout with the director of the South African Astronomical Observatory could jeopardise a R20-billion project.
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/ 9 September 2009
The National Research Foundation (NRF) is the custodian of one of the world’s most intensive peer review systems in academic research
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/ 9 September 2009
National Research Foundation: P-rated research professors
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/ 9 September 2009
Scopus is one of the main databases used by the NRF in the process of its monitoring and evaluation system
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/ 9 September 2009
The National Research Foundation is the intermediary agency between the government and those institutions that perform research.
Not all scientific breakthroughs make it to the global news arena, yet they are happening all around us on a daily basis, mostly going unnoticed
Cornia Pretorius reports on problems at the National Research Foundation.
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/ 15 September 2008
South Africa hosts an international exhibition to showcase the practical application of science
and technology, writes Sharon van Wyk.
A plan to boost SA’s scientific research has taken a knock, after the Science and Technology Department failed to secure R180-million in funding.
The University of Johannesburg is spending R25-million on scholarships for master’s and PhD students, some of whom will be guaranteed employment
Professor Brenda Wingfield has always pushed the boundaries of science. She was the first person to start DNA sequencing of filamentous fungi in SA.
The principle of competition is one of the key reasons that America’s system of higher education is the best in the world.
Academics will now receive funding based on their rating, writes Primarashni Gower.
Intellectuals, public officials, business and civil-society leaders and political commentators have complained about South African universities’ lack of ”visibility”. For some, universities have not addressed the myriad economic and social-development challenges the country faces.
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/ 28 November 2007
A plant found only in the Eastern Cape has been hailed as a new miracle cure for diabetes, the Herald Online reported on Wednesday. Researchers said ”astounding results” had been obtained from the effect of extracts of the Karoo plant Sutherlandia Frutescens in stabilising blood sugar in diabetes one and two.