Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Some of you might have made some new resolutions for the new year. I stopped doing that a long time ago, when I realised that I had forgotten half of them by April or did not follow through with a lot of them.

History will be made once again in 2014 in the South African entrepreneurship arena with the second cohort of students beginning their Postgraduate Diploma in Small Enterprise Consulting (PG Dip SEC) – the first postgraduate programme of its kind in South Africa which targets consultants, coaches and mentors working with entrepreneurs instead of the entrepreneur…

UKZN Architecture student Mr Mongezi Ncube is the regional winner of the 2013 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year award.

Bursaries are available to 2nd year undergraduate students who have made a contribution to sport at UCT.

Rule number one: Whether you treasure your high school years or are glad that it’s over, high school success, or lack thereof, does not automatically apply to tertiary education.

Soweto primary and high school pupils are empowered by the Leadership for Learning intervention programme, a three-year programme to bolster leadership in schools and help improve literacy levels.

Two postgraduate students from the School of Built Environment and Development Studies (BEDS), Ms Amanda Mthembu and Mr Simon Halvey, have returned from a month-long intensive course on survey research techniques at Michigan University in the United States.

ith a final round of election registration scheduled for 8 and 9 February, political scientists at Stellenbosch University (SU) and non-governmental organisations are encouraging citizens, especially the youth, to register for the upcoming elections.

Monash South Africa has congratulated Rutendo Mutsamwira who was selected for the Microsoft 4 Afrika Initiative. Rutendo was identified along with other candidates from around the continent as the kind of proactive, driven and passionate individual that the initiative looks for.