The agreement will help Mpumalanga province find sustainable solutions to its water challenges
These women are contributing to the advancement of the NRF’s mandate and driving its vision in service of a better society
More students are enrolling in doctoral studies, but gatekeepers are questioning their worthiness
The university has 83 (32.5%) women professors out of a total of 255
There’s strong evidence that, all things being equal, leading South African universities provide “world class” training at PhD level
Ask anyone who was at Rhodes, this specific formulation of uMakhulu was promoted by Magoqwana
A Unisa payroll administrator created ghost students and defrauded SAAST, under the administration of NRF, to the tune of R1.7 million
Whether it was in the use of satellites to monitor the continent’s resources or precision medicine, we need technology to accelerate development.
Political buy-in is vital to science and research, particularly in a constrained economic environment.
To stimulate innovation in the agriculture sector, education and training is in dire need of substantial reform.
The logic of governance at these institutions is that of neomedievalism in the war of excellence
Transforming the science and research landscape through the Thuthuka programme.
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/ 2 September 2011
Each year the NRF awards excellence in three special categories.
The National Research Foundation (NRF) celebrates top South African researchers who have made a difference in their fields — and in society.
Will heavy-handed bureaucracy or best scientific practice win the day, asks <b>Marian Shinn</b>.
<strong>Professor Francesco Petruccione</strong> — SARChI Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication.
<b>Professor Phuti E. Ngoepe</b>, SARChI Chair in Computational Modelling of Materials: Materials Modelling Centre.
Real science doesn’t happen in a laboratory. It happens in life.
SARChI is a flagship initiative of Government designed to attract and retain excellence in research and innovation at South African universities.
<b>Professor Kelly Chibale</b> — SARChI Chair in Drug Discovery
<strong>Professor Sue T L Harrison</strong> — SARChI Chair in Bioprocess Engineering.
<strong>Professor Clifford Shearing</strong> — SARChI Chair in Security and Justice.
The first national Young Scientists’ Conference in South Africa took place just outside Pretoria with a biodiversity taking centre stage.
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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
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