Namibia: Plug-in campus promotes cross-cultural learning

Meneesha Govender, Just Meneesha, Namibia, University World News, plug-in, higher education

The Future Tech Lab, a plug-in campus set up within the main campus of the University of Namibia (UNAM) in Windhoek by Finnish higher education institution the University of Turku (UTU) is not only helping to produce local software engineers but is at the forefront of student-led cross-cultural innovation through its remote linking of student collaborators in Namibia and Finland.

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New network to focus on supporting higher education reform

Meneesha Govender, Just Meneesha, University World News, higher education, network

The South African Technology Network (SATN) and its local and international partners have been successful in applying to the European Commission to establish a South African chapter of the network for Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs) – the first of its kind in Africa. Of the 1,005 eligible applications for…

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SATN-UIF learnership offers skills – and hope – to youth

Meneesha Govender, Just Meneesha, higher education, employment, youth

Acknowledging the urgent need for the youth to be employed, the South African Technology Network (SATN), Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Milzet Holdings – a skills development provider that offers a range of programmes for corporate learning and development – embarked on a partnership last year to actively assist young…

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SATN helps boost PhD capacity in South Africa

Meneesha Govender, JustMeneesha, SATN, UWN, highered

The South African Technology Network (SATN) has partnered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to launch a Staff PhD Capacity Enhancement Programme designed to raise the number and quality of PhDs coming out of universities of technology and previously disadvantaged universities in South Africa.

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#ReadingRoom: Friday Black

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“Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary”. These are just some of the words used to describe this collection of short stories. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black has debuted with a bang.

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My best social media tactics for 2019

JustMeneesha, Meneesha Govender, blog, freelance, freelancer, entrepreneur, 2019, tactics

I’ve been thinking about my social media strategy for 2019 while researching trends and tactics. How do I get my own brand, as well as the brands I work for, to stand out next year? What worked for me this year? Will this continue to work into 2019? Or do…

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#FreelanceFriday: And the word of 2018 is toxic

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“The Oxford Word of the Year is a word or expression that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year”. This year that word is TOXIC.

“Toxic” has many strings – toxic waste, toxic poisoning and the like. And events around these issues have facilitated the word’s rise to the top of the most-used pile.

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