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Rhodes University
Founded in 1904, Rhodes University is a well-established University located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
It is a small research intensive university which enjoys the distinction of having amongst the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South Africa, outstanding postgraduate success rates, and the best research output per academic staff member.
The University takes pride in its motto, Where Leaders Learn, and in producing graduates who are knowledgeable intellectuals, skilled professionals, and critical, caring and compassionate citizens who can contribute to economic and social development and an equitable, just and democratic society.
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Agriculture appears to carry a stronger set of negative stigmas than other careers, but this is only half the story.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
The major issue is why this kind of research was being produced 25 years after the end of apartheid.
Vocation specific language courses can encourage both linguistic and cultural awareness. They can equip students with the basics they need to communicate.
South Africa is ahead of the pack when it comes to research output in Africa. But this ranking is not a celebration.
To help establish South Africa’s gaming industry as a viable career path for more diverse participants, more support for the technical training required has to be considered.
Universities have both a responsibility and a degree of potential influence on public schooling that set them apart and impose a special duty of leadership.
These programmes allow institutions to claim they’re doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.
Government support for the arts, culture and heritage is important even in tough economic conditions.
Research shows that mother tongue teaching is the most ideal tool for early child education.
Maps can show “the big picture” to lots and lots of people in an engaging and colourful way.
Forensic linguistics can play a valuable role in interpreting evidence.
El suajili se está expandiendo al norte, oeste y sur de África lo que propicia contactos comerciales, académicos y sociales con buena parte del continente.
Understanding stories – those of the murderous as well as of the compassionate – is vital to generating the critical mass necessary to save natural environments and their multiple denizens.
South Africa’s job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
South African editors and journalists failed in their ethical contract with society.
South Africa needs to rethink the role of the informal economy as it mulls over ideas to beat joblessness.
Kiswahili will be easy for South Africans to learn compared to foreign languages from outside Africa.
Flooding seems to be an inevitable reality for Nigeria. But the risks can be minimised.
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Research Associate, Rhodes University
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Marine biologist, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral Fellow with the NRF/DST SARChI Chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, Rhodes University
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Lecturer & MA Programme Coordinator, Rhodes University
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Professor of English, Rhodes University
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Research Associate at the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science and Shark Scientist and Founder Oceans Research Institute, Rhodes University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior lecturer, Rhodes University
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Research Associate of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University
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Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University
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Program Manager at Wildlife Conservation Society, Rhodes University
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PhD Candidate/Research & Teaching Assistant, Grenoble Ecole de Management/Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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Politics lecturer, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Rhodes University
