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Midlands Region collaborates with municipalities to enhance student support
The Unisa Midlands Region is collaborating with local municipalities to improve essential service delivery and support services to regional students. Read more
Gold-coated iron oxide nanoparticles are a promising agent for cancer therapy and imaging
The UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Professor Malik Maaza, recently hosted an informative webinar series where Professor Ali Shakeri-Zadeh, a radiology researcher, discussed a study on promising cancer therapy and imaging. Read more
The trajectory of welfare following resettlement Zimbabwe vis-à-vis international experiences
Dr Newman Tekwa, a postdoctoral fellow in the DSI/NFR SARChI Chair in Social Policy, recently discussed the welfare trajectory of resettled households and international experiences of Zimbabwean households at a webinar hosted by the College of Graduate Studies. Read more
The feasibility of the developmental state project in Africa
Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies recently held the annual memorial lecture of Professor Thandika Mkandawire, whose seminal contributions to the debates on democracy and the developmental state, economic restructuring and the idea of transformation shifted the understanding of many in the areas of knowledge and policymaking. Read more
The need to transform higher education into a Pan-African 4IR
The 2022 transformation conference took a closer look at the ramifications of COVID-19 and how impactful 4IR can be towards Pan-Africanism. Read more
Unlocking Unisa's innovative ideas
Brilliant ideas need to be taken off the drawing board and turned into products or services that people and organisations want to use or buy. Unisa's Pre-Incubation Programme has successfully supported students and staff in taking their innovative ideas to a minimum viable product. Read more
Women's role towards a global peace agenda
Unisa recently held the 4th Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair Founder's Lecture, which significantly highlighted the stark rates of gender inequality and patriarchy being paramount to society's social ills to the detriment of women. Read more
Durban hosts successful Spring graduations
Despite the pouring rain in Durban, graduation brought a range of emotions for the graduating students. Mostly, however, feelings of excitement and a sense of accomplishment. Read more
Unisa Law Clinic in the service of humanity
True to the university's vision of shaping futures in the service of humanity, the Unisa Law Clinic has been playing an impactful role in the ongoing saga of Babalo Ndwayana, the 19-year-old Stellenbosch University student whose belongings were urinated by a fellow student, Theuns du Toit. Read more
A black-tie gala dinner to engage in sustainable higher education
Organised by Unisa's Strategy, Risk and Advisory Services portfolio, the gala dinner during the 29th edition of the SAAIR conference gave institutional researchers sufficient confidence to continue building sustainable higher learning institutions through bests practises and research with impact. Read more
