105 research outputs found

    Launch of 'Popular Music and Censorship in Africa'

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    Address at the launch of 'Popular Music and Censorship in Africa', edited by Drewett, M and Cloonan, M

    A spatial analysis of the Alternative Admissions' Research Project at the University of Cape Town, 2000 - 2005.

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    Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the potential contribution of spatial analysis using GIS on candidates who undergo the Alternative Admissions Research Project (AARP) tests for alternative admission to University of Cape Town (UCT). Spatial analysis may be useful in interrogating existing information on the geographical distribution of AARP candidates, in particular, those who are regarded as educationally disadvantaged as a result of apartheid policy and practices of the past. GIS techniques and tools were applied in order to assess accessibility of UCT AARP services provided to students nationally, and to demonstrate how GIS may be incorporated into the various academic faculties at UCT, particularly academic faculty recruitment planning

    Red Beard

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    True transformation of HE requires deep discussion and time

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    Great care must be taken in transforming South Africa's universities if they are not to be overtaken by ruin or subject to persistent, unresolved contestation, according to leading South African higher education policy specialist Saleem Badat. The task of establishing a new social pact under which there is broad agreement over the role of universities in the country must, of necessity, be a generational project, he says, and should not be subject to the "political opportunism and short-termism" or dominated by particular civil-society or private-sector agendas.N/

    True transformation of HE requires deep discussion and time

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    Great care must be taken in transforming South Africa's universities if they are not to be overtaken by ruin or subject to persistent, unresolved contestation, according to leading South African higher education policy specialist Saleem Badat. The task of establishing a new social pact under which there is broad agreement over the role of universities in the country must, of necessity, be a generational project, he says, and should not be subject to the "political opportunism and short-termism" or dominated by particular civil-society or private-sector agendas.N/

    Anchoring Universities

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    Book Review: Samuel Fongwa, Thierry Luescher, Ntimi Mtawa and Jesmael Mataga (eds.) 2015 Universities, Society and Development: African Perspectives of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities: Stellenbosch: Sun Press
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