Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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6 Tough-love Tips for Getting Hired After Varsity/College
Consider me a cautionary tale. I was one of many misguided university graduates who underestimated how difficult it would be to find a job after graduation. I didn’t expect to collect my diploma and walk into a sea of headhunters waiting to hire me, but I had no idea that it would take me a…
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Featured Career: Project Management, and the Growing Demand in South Africa
Project management, though often integrated into various degree programmes as a small segment of the course work, is an entirely independent profession and can be studied as such. There are many facets to this complex and potentially lucrative profession. A career in project management is well suited to those that are looking for a challenging…
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How To Avoid Putting on Weight at University: The Freshman 15
There are so many myths about what can happen to a person when they go off for college for the first time. With all of the late nights, poor food habits, and partying, it is inevitable that you will begin to see the effects on your body. This is what is known as the Freshman…
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South African Loan Scam, Have You Been Caught Out?
Several South Africans have been caught in an alleged loan scam operation that has a restaurant in Hungary listed on its website as its head office.
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Will Studying in This Field Guarantee You a Job? Research Seems to Think So
There is a critical shortage of the technical skills needed to support the fast pace of telecommunications growth sweeping across the African continent. This is one of the main findings of the 2012 Telecommunications Survey, carried out by Landelahni Business Leaders, a member of the global Amrop executive search group.
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Fact: Using Facebook While Studying Gets You Lower Grades. Here's How…
Students should think twice before logging into Facebook or sending text messages during study time, suggests a study to be published in the journal Computers & Education.
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How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education
Gates- and Google-funded Sal Khan seeks to make his popular YouTube lessons universally accessible, and change the nature of education in the process.
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SA Should Promote Research Into Green Technology
South Africa needs to reduce its reliance on coal and place confidence in other sources of electricity generation as well as promote research and technologies in these sources, says Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.
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SAX Appeal Sellers Hit The Streets
UCT RAG’s annual feather ruffler and beacon of free speech, SAX Appeal, may be a septuagenarian, but a magazine is only as old as the people who sell it.
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Denzel Washington To Be Honoured
Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington has been selected to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
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