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Foundation helps college graduates to become artisan entrepreneurs

Article Advertorial Supplement - 30 Nov 2018

Investing in the Future Youth Development Award. Runner-up: Second Chance SA Foundation

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Reputation Custodianship through Ubuntu.Lab Hub at Reputation House

Article Advertorial - 18 Sep 2018

Restoring the public's faith in corporate and government leaders

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SA must up its skills in wooing skilled migrants ― report

Article Thulebona Mhlanga - 29 Jun 2018

South Africa’s job opportunities, established education system and modern technology attract skilled immigrants to the country, the report noted

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Cape Town must make itself more attractive to black graduates

Article Ryan Ravens - 11 Jun 2018

'Black professionals in Cape Town experience pervasive challenges, the biggest being the difficulty in building social capital'

Skills grow, but racial rift persists

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Oct 2015

South Africa must come to terms with the fact that better schooling is the surest way to overcome inequality.

Letters to the editor: December 5 to 11 2014

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Dec 2014

Readers speak out on skills ideas, tax havens and the progressive left.

Fine art of training artisans

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Mar 2011

Cross-sectoral training and a single standard of competence envisaged, writes Jim Freeman.

Turning the screws

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Mar 2011

Skills-training providers will now have to raise their game steeply, writes Jim Freeman.

Why informal experience matters

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Feb 2011

Despite the surprise omission of prior learning from the recent skills strategy, it is not dead and buried, writes Jim Freeman.

“Still in chains”, says black honours graduate

Article bogdan TagDiv - 1 Dec 2010

A UCT graduate has written a scathing open letter to HET MInister Blade Nzimande detailing the difficulties he and other black graduates face.

‘Padkos’ for school leavers

Article bogdan TagDiv - 5 Nov 2010

It's not too late for some last-minute help to get them on their way, writes Patricia Flederman.

Experts cautious on Mkhize’s appointment

Article bogdan TagDiv - 3 Nov 2010

Experts are in the dark about the new Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training but are hopeful her appointment will benefit the sector.

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