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.
The informal sector represents an opportunity to improve the lives of a large part of the workforce. Government should desist from harming livelihoods and broaden the scope of policy measures.
Children benefit enormously from being taught in their own languages.
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A much more flexible and open teaching and language policy would help teachers and pupils to enable a meaningful learning environment in a multilingual and diverse classroom setting.
Toni Morrison’s legacy echoes across the world.
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Deeply influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, artist David Koloane, who died on 30 June 2019, believed that artists have a right to define their own work.
There’s a perception among young South Africans that farm jobs are back-breaking and financially unappealing.
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Vocation specific language courses can encourage both linguistic and cultural awareness. They can equip students with the basics they need to communicate.
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.
A mentor works through a problem with a pupil at one of Makhanda’s schools.
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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.
Often students plagiarise because they don’t understand how to write in an academic setting.
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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.