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Haleon partners with UWC to improve oral health to Western Cape communities
The significance of a healthy smile goes far beyond what meets the eye. We do more than smile with our mouths and teeth – we talk, we chew, and we bite. When our oral health is…
University of Pretoria still reviewing resolution on Palestine
Students and staff at the university who are sympathetic to Palestine have asked that it boycott all Israeli academic institutions
The cosmos decoders
IDIA team pioneers data-intensive astronomy in South Africa
The biosensor sage
Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha’s legacy transforms lives through nanoscience
The aqua innovator
Prof Timothy Dube harnesses AI to revolutionise water management
NSFAS accommodation project is a ‘time bomb’ says Outa
The civil rights organisation says students have been asking it to intervene and warned if the crisis was not resolved fast, they would have no option but to protest
Hopes pinned on Dr Naledi Mbude to improve SA’s abysmal reading scores
Mbude is now Deputy Director-General for Special Projects including African language education, seen by many as a key to improving child literacy
UFS: Private security moves on campus to monitor protests
The vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State has spoken about academic measures for students for the academic year following the national shutdown
Graduates and their unemployment dilemma
South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated
Seeking mobility justice
The drought-related day zero and the mobility day zero have more in common than you may think, writes Dr Bradley Rink
Eight universities get full LLB accreditation; five more in the balance
Universities that faced the risk of losing their accreditation for the bachelor of laws qualification are off the hook
Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative
A jamboree of poets traverses the city, feels it’s pain and emerges to restore what was taken
Campus politics signals a jump to the left, say student leaders
The Economic Freedom Fighters and Pan Africanist movement dominate Cape university SRCs.