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Wamkelekile, Welkom
Wamkelekile, Welkom
A pre-R year: is it worth it, and what would it cost?: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
It is hazardous to make a direct leap from neuroscience to policy recommendations. Simply because early childhood provides opportunities for more efficient interventions which have dramatic impact on inequality, this does not mean that the Early Child Development (ECD) policies actually implemented by communities, provinces, or national government are worthy investments.
30 Aug 2012
Energy Access: where are we going in Africa?: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
Access to energy has been on the development agenda for several decades, focusing on electrification and other clean fuels such as LPG. Nevertheless, access to electricity and modern fuels remains low in Sub Saharan Africa. Traditional biomass, particularly wood fuel, remains a predominantly rural fuel, although charcoal use is high in many urban centres. One major problem with burning biomass in open fires is the smoke, which seriously affects health.
30 Aug 2012
The poverty of education in South Africa: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
The poor performances of learners in Annual National Assessments, along with consistently weak performance in international tests and at the Matric level in South Africa have highlighted deep-rooted weaknesses in the education system. The burden of failure falls primarily on rural and African children, and the consequent drop-out of learners has a knock-on effect in the labour market where, again, the burdens of unemployment fall most heavily on these youth.
30 Aug 2012
Issues In SA's Jobs Fund and Youth Wage Subsidy: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
The South African Government is increasingly experimenting with the introduction of numerous policies and programmes to fight what appears to be an obstinate unemployment problem. Among the latest of the country's policy artilleries launched and proposed in the battle against joblessness are the Jobs Fund and Youth Wage Subsidy to complement existing Active labour Market Policies (ALMPs). In particular, the youth wage subsidy continues to be the subject of controversy among politicians and trade unions over its desirability
30 Aug 2012
School Feeding in South Africa: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
In 1994 President Mandela initiated the South African School Feeding Programme to feed needy learners a daily nutritious meal so that they come to school, stay in school and can concentrate on their education. In 2012 the National School Nutrition Programme aims to feed +/- 8 million learners daily, with an annual budget of R5 billion.
29 Aug 2012
Teenage pregnancy in SA: Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
The problems of teenage pregnancy arise from individual, familial and societal factors, including, but not limited to, culture, religion, moral values and beliefs, education and economic circumstances, and a lack of support structures. Life circumstances that place girls at higher risk of teenage pregnancy include poverty, poor school performance, a family history of teenage pregnancy, and partner age, coupled with trade-offs between health and economic security often negotiated by young women. Other contributory risk factors include early sexual debut, ignorance, curiosity, peer pressure, gender-based violence, power imbalances in sexual relationships and family conflict.
29 Aug 2012
Tuberculosis and structural poverty; what can be done? Towards Carnegie III conference at UCT
Poverty in South Africa shares common causes and manifestations with poverty globally. How we choose to address ongoing widespread poverty (local and global) lies at the heart of the potential either for tuberculosis to become untreatable due to total drug resistance, or for deliberate action to greatly reduce the burden of this devastating disease. As severe poverty is the result of human agency we can choose either of these futures.
29 Aug 2012
UCT to host 16th annual International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference
The theme of the conference is: Promoting Higher Education Internationalisation through International Research Collaborations, Partnerships and Innovative Teaching. It will seek to define what internationalisation means or should mean for institutions in South Africa.
28 Aug 2012
Statement by Mrs Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology at the announcement of the Malaria candidate drug, University of Cape Town, 28 August 2012, 12:00
I have the pleasure to announce the discovery of a compound which will be of the first ever clinical candidate researched on African soil as part of a modern pharmaceutical industry drug discovery programme.
28 Aug 2012
African research identifies strong candidate for possible single-dose malaria cure
A recently discovered compound from the aminopyridine class not only has the potential to become part of a single-dose cure for all strains of malaria, but might also be able to block transmission of the parasite from person to person, according to a research collaboration involving the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), based in Switzerland, and the Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
28 Aug 2012
UCT to host national conference on Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality
Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality: Towards Carnegie III will look for effective ways to reduce inequality and poverty in its many forms. The conference will follow on from 2 historic Carnegie inquiries which focused on highlighting and addressing poverty and inequality in South Africa.
27 Aug 2012
UCT's Kaplan Centre to host conference with world renowned scholars on Holocaust Scholarship
A panel discussion on "Nazism and the Holocaust: Intersections with the South African Experience" will be one of the key events of a 3-day conference hosted by the Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town in association with the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. The international conference will explore aspects of Holocaust historiography.
15 Aug 2012
Nurses as effective as doctors in treating HIV patients
Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of East Anglia (UEA).
14 Aug 2012
UCT expert to speak on Economics and Transformation: Measurement, Models, Maths and Myths
Professor Martin Wittenberg of the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town will speak on "Economics and Transformation: Measurement, Models, Maths and Myths" on Wednesday, 8 August 2012, at 17:30.
01 Aug 2012