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Varsity football challenge launched at NMMU
South African university soccer received a major boost on Monday, when the South African Football Association (SAFA) gave its blessing to the launch of the brand new Varsity Football Challenge.
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Big guns take hands to narrow skills gap
Woolworths has designed a programme for academic staff at Boland College and five other FET Colleges in the Western Cape to help their students with a career in retail. This is being done in collaboration with the Wholesale & Retail SETA.
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UCT search for malaria cure internationally lauded
The UCT-led effort to find a single dose cure for malaria has been named the 2012 Project of the Year by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).
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Tertiary educators' help bridge the gap between study and work
Innovative ways of bridging the gap between tertiary education and employment have come to the fore in a move by leading educators to find solutions for workplace skills training and graduate employment.
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Student Brands: R5000 STUDENT GIVEAWAY
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The Animation School announces Johannesburg Campus
Cape Town based specialist animation training institution, The Animation School, has formally announced the introduction of a fully equipped Johannesburg campus in response to significant student demand.
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Having your head in the clouds is not necessarily a bad thing
Hayley Pritchard, pilot for the Tintswalo Property Group, always knew she wanted to fly but that didn’t necessarily mean she saw it as a career.
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Entries open for Gert-Johan Coetzee’s 2014 Fashion Design Bursary
The search is on for a student to benefit from the Gert-Johan Coetzee bursary for studies in fashion design from the North West School of Design in Klerksdorp, where South Africa’s designer to the stars graduated in 2005.
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NWU sharpens craftsmen skills
After 15 years’ hard work and a lot of sweat in advanced manufacturing training, the Engineering Faculty of the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus has now been appointed as the first tertiary institution that is involved with the practical training of students of the NTIP (National Tooling Initiative Programme).
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UJ scores trifecta at national winter tournaments
The University of Johannesburg scored a trifecta of wins when its men’s hockey, squash and rugby teams took gold during the winter leg of the USSA national student tournaments.
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