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SIRGS research workshop a hit

The School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies (SIRGS) in the College of Graduate Studies (CGS) is rolling out research methodology workshops for master’s and doctoral students in the regions

Professor Archie Mafeje was known as an ‘intellectual pathfinder’ and contributed significantly to the people of Africa’s knowledge

Perhaps Unisa’s involvement with the scholar can provide answers. The professor of anthropology was so well respected by the university that the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) was established last year to investigate knowledge production for applied social policy in pursuit of progressive change in African society through the provision of fresh thinking and novel policy ideas.

Prof. Mpine Makoe (Head of Unisa’s Institute for Open Distance Learning), is one of five exciting keynote speakers at the prestigious International Council for Open and Distance Education biennial world conference to be hosted by Tianjin Open University, China from 16–18 October 2013

Unisa is proud to announce during Africa Month that Professor Mpine Makoe, Head of the Institute for Open Distance Learning (IODL), will be representing the continent at the prestigious International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) biennial world conference to be hosted by Tianjin Open University, China from 16–18 October 2013.

With about 20 years of experience in nanosciences, Algerian born and an adoptive South African Professor Malik Maaza is an ideal incumbent for the UNESCO-Unisa Africa Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has undergraduate degrees in Solid State Physics and Photonics from the University of Oran, Algeria, and University of Paris VI, France. His PhD in Neutron Optics was obtained from the University of Paris VI. He is a man passionate about voicing Africa’s nanoscience and nanotechnology knowledge production progress and contributions. Parallel to the initiation of the South African Nanotechnology Initiative (SANi) launched in 2006, which Maaza instigated with Dr Philemon Mjwara, current Director General of the national department of science and technology, in 2005, in Trieste-Italy, under the patronage of TWAS, ICTP and UNIDO, he initiated the Nanosciences African Network (NANOAFNET), which has its headquarters at the iThemba LABS-NRF in Cape Town. Since the inception of this African nano-platform, Maaza, together with several key actors from international funding agencies, implemented a concise and sustainable, continental programme in the field of nano where the human capital development and human capital mobility of senior scientists in Africa are the cornerstone components.

African scientists are resolute in their belief that the solutions to many of the continent’s challenges lie within the intricacies of nanoscience and nanotechnology – a fresh branch of science which works at the frontiers of knowledge

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