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  • Win 1 x 2 R1000 Gift Vouchers at Career Indaba 2012 Terms and Conditions

    Win 1 x 2 R1000 Gift Vouchers at Career Indaba 2012 Terms and Conditions

  • Win 1 x 2 R1000 Gift Vouchers at Career Indaba 2012

    Visit SAstudy.co.za at Career Indaba 2012 at Stand 136 at the Sandton Convention Centre on 3 or 4 July and stand a chance to win one of two R1000 gift vouchers.

  • 5 Smooth Tips To Ace Your Courses This 2nd Semester

    To be on top form with your studies, career and personal life, you need to be smooth. James Brown levels of smooth. A really smooth operator, ninja-like in your skills (but we’re not encouraging you to be a con artist)!

  • Drugs, University and You

    You love a good party but a couple of drinks are where it stops. What can you do if a friend of yours takes it further into the seemingly hip and happening world of excessive drinking, cocaine, speed, weed, tik and so on?

  • How To Tackle Low Self-Esteem in University

    With a healthy self-esteem, you’ll feel happier, enjoy better relationships and be more likely to achieve your goals.

  • Top 10 CV Tips For Students

    Your CV is your first and only chance to make a great impression on a potential employer – a good candidate with a bad CV will never get an interview. Therefore, it pays to spend a lot of time refining and polishing it. Here are 10 tips for crafting a professional and eye-catching CV.

  • Go Green, Even If You Are A Broke Student

    ‘Going Green’ is all the rage at the moment and while most people think this means Woolworths Freerange Organic food and the Old Biscuit Mill organic market, going green does not have to cost you a fortune. There are a few simple things you can do and the best part is that it will all…

  • Stay Clutter-Free On A Budget

    Seeing that res is your second home when you start varsity it also tends to accumulate a lot of stuff that none of us really need but everyone wants. So, how do you keep your small-spaced res room (that you probably share with another clutter bug) clutter-free?

  • Top 10 Desirable IT Skills

    Finding employees with the right skills has become a major issue for employers in South Africa. Madelise Grobler, MD of Bytes People Solutions, a company in the Bytes Technology Group, identifies the top 10 IT skills that will be in demand in the new year.

  • Varsities Full. What now?

    With most South Africa university applications closed for the new year, hopeful academics will now await the verdict to hear whether their applications to study in 2011 were successful or not. Many universities received an influx of applications, thousands of which may have to be turned down due to the limited space within the institutions.…

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