2020-08-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Leave the dungeon behind
Unisa's Reverend Dr Fundiswa Kobo says that Queen Vashti in the story of Esther is a model that women could use for a spirituality of resistance and protest. "She was prepared to dismantle in an instant the king's entire carefully constructed façade… with the conviction that her dignity was more important to her than his display of his power."
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2020-08-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Covid-19: Nuclear developments in Africa
Sixty years after the first nuclear weapons tests in Africa were conducted in 1960, the continent is rapidly exploring the various advantages that the peaceful application of the technology can bring in the health and food sectors in its response to the pandemic, says Unisa's Prof Jo-Ansie van Wyk.
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2020-08-13 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Nurtured to lead
Nozibele Nomdebevana, the Corpus Project Leader and CGS champion for transformation, says that for women, whose actions are grounded in healthy fundamental communal values, leading with ubuntu comes naturally.
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2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate
Mentoring the next generation of female organic chemists
Unisa's Prof Malose Jack Mphahlele is delighted to see that researchers who have qualified under his aegis are making their mark as decision makers in the science academe.
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2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate
HE during Covid-19: Not business as usual
For Unisa's Prof David Hedding, lead author of a paper published in the latest issue of the South African Journal of Science, the biggest lesson that the higher education sector has had to learn from the pandemic disruptions has been the need for agility and flexibility in decision-making.
2020-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate
CHS leads the way with research ethics and high research performance
The College of Human Sciences recently launched its new College Research Ethics Committee (CREC) virtually. The new CREC Chair is Dr Kgashane Johannes Malesa.
2020-08-06 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Corporate
How to narrow the gap between what universities produce and what employers expect
Unisa's Angelo Fynn explains how a South African study explored how psychology students benefited from an alternative approach to teaching and learning.
2020-08-06 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Law, Featured, Corporate
Breaking barriers on the fast track
Safia Mahomed, recently appointed Associate Professor in the College of Law's Department of Jurisprudence, is the only Unisa staff member currently involved in the DHET's Future Professors Programme, which is committed to developing the next-generation transformed professoriate.
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2020-08-05 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Unesco, College of Education, Lead, Featured, Corporate
Refining a career in open, distance and e-learning
As a postdoctoral fellow in the UNESCO Chair on ODL at Unisa, Dr Mmabaledi Kefilwe Seeletso says you cannot practise something that you have not learnt. You have to adopt a tendency of earning while learning, so that you can appreciate the uniqueness of this philosophy.”
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