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Facilitating specialist WIL opportunities for Nature Conservation students

Unisa's Nature Conservation students are getting rare, hands-on wildlife post-mortem experience in the university's Science Labs. Through creative collaboration, they are overcoming limited field opportunities to gain vital skills, which cannot be accessed through theory alone. Read more

‘Women should unite in their diversity to challenge gender injustice’

During a momentous Women's Month celebration through the Feroza Adam Memorial Lecture, former anti-apartheid activist, Cheryl Carolus, urged women to avail themselves to serve in leadership positions to advance the fight against gender inequality and gender injustice. Read more

Astro-tourism, deep space exploration, and extraterrestrial life: the future of humanity

Exciting deep space exploration ventures, signs of life on other planets, the development of the Square Kilometre Array project, and astro-tourism were some of the topics discussed during Unisa’s Catalytic Niche Area Symposium. Read more

Unisa to partner in transformative youth skills development programme

City Power, in collaboration with Unisa Enterprise and other partners, recently launched an ambitious youth empowerment initiative aimed at tackling youth unemployment through hands-on skills training and enterprise development. Read more

Aviation law expert calls for independent entity for transport accident investigations in South Africa

Focusing on Catalytic Niche Area 2: Aviation and Aeronautical Studies at Unisa's Catalytic Niche Area Research Symposium, Unisa graduate and retired pilot, Dr Brian Suckling, provided valuable insights on how to improve the African aviation safety. Read more

Unisa Art Gallery showcases transformative exhibition

“Place & Practice: Collective Voices from Ellis House” is a group exhibition that celebrates community-based art centre artists' socio-cultural impact and creative outputs, and depicts diverse perspectives and contemporary output methodologies. Read more

Higher education institutions urged to be intentional about academic technologies

Opening the panel discussion on Catalytic Niche Area 10: Student Support and Co-curricular Activities at Unisa's Catalytic Niche Area Research Symposium, Dr Denzil Chetty emphasised that institutions of higher learning must consider how they build their competencies and capacities to ensure that they produce competent and employable graduates. Read more

Unisa alumna inspires entrepreneurial confidence

Nompilo Gumede, an accountant, speaker, entrepreneur and women’s empowerment advocate, believes that the key to a South Africa abounding in employed graduates lies in innovative thinking, collaboration, self-confidence and empowerment. Read more

Student leader ready to teach with passion

Having recently graduated, Kgaswane Kgalalelo, Deputy Secretary of the Unisa Midlands Regional Student Representative Council, looks forward to using her teaching qualification to make a difference in the lives of young people. Read more