Researchers at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) are working to stop the abuse of the human rights of persons with disabilities. The researchers want to help victims with Complex Communication Needs.
The series unpacks the most pertinent topics in South Africa. In this episode we discuss whether transformation in higher education goes beyond race and ask ourselves: is gender dead? Dr Sithembile Mbete speaks to Aubrey Masango.
Introducing more skilled employees into the economy is an important path to development for many middle income countries. That’s why increased and improved training at the top end of the education level – PhDs – is considered so vital.
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 report paints a disturbing picture of primary school reading literacy in South Africa, with no significant progress nationally since the last report in 2011.
Around the world, many teachers are choosing to leave their home countries once they've qualified. It's a global phenomenon, and one that impacts both developed and developing nations – in some positive ways, but with negative effects particularly for the source country that's losing skilled teachers to supposedly "greener pastures".
Democracy and scientific peer review have something in common: it's a "system full of problems but the least worst we have". That's the view of Richard Smith, a medical doctor and former editor of the illustrious British Medical Journal.
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