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Careers Service: Guided journey from school to work
The 2014 Graduation Destination Survey conducted by the Careers Service in CHED showed that 44% of UCT's graduating class* was already employed by the time they stepped up to the graduation podium to...
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Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Scholars transforming academia
Recognising the need for transformation of the country's academic cohort, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Programme identifies highly promising students at a very early stage in their academic...
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Global Citizenship Programme: Compassionate, ethical, engaged
Can our university system evolve to teach students about the world they face in the 21st century? Can it teach them how to be compassionate, ethical and engaged citizens in an increasingly...
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Academic Development Programme: Student success, not just access
Fifty percent of South Africa's university intake does not graduate, at a cost of some R5-billion in subsidies, a massive waste of human potential, and a severe drag on transformation. Only 10% of the...
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How UCT helps helps you own first year
Applying and being accepted into UCT is the first big hurdle students face. Treading the minefield of big classes, massive campuses and an even bigger workload can trip up even the brightest freshers....
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From application through first year with 100UP Plus
In 2011, 100 promising grade 10 students from schools in Khayelitsha were chosen by UCT for a mentoring programme, to help prepare them for university. Ninety of those students, who matriculated in...
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National Benchmark Tests: testing for placement
One of the first interactions students might have with CHED comes well before they even set foot on campus – in the form of the National Benchmark Tests (NBT). These multiple-choice tests,...
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A word from the dean
Assoc Prof Suellen Shay. Dean of CHED. This issue of Monday Monthly profiles CHED's work from the student point of view, with a special focus on how we strive to provide 'enabling pathways' that extend...
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New Academic Practitioners Programme: A holistic induction to academic life
A safe, collegial space for new lecturers – those with no more than five years' teaching experience – to develop meaningful responses to the challenges facing them, their students...
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Navigating researching writing: Guides for postgraduate research
Postgraduate research and writing can seem daunting to the freshly initiated; so CHED stepped in with a map and compass – of the scholarly sort. Researchers engage at the first Navigating...
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What the constitution promises women
Women's rights to life, dignity and privacy are well protected by the country's progressive Constitution, says Associate Professor Waheeda Amien (Department of Public Law). But it's particularly...
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One goal, one banner for feminists
Are women with feminisms rooted in different eras able to speak with one voice on big issues affecting them? And does it matter? Dr Nadia Sanger addressed this issue in a recent series, 'Conversations...
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Women in numbers
What is the demographic profile of women in South Africa? What is their average age and where do most work? How many are formally employed? And what are the prevalent diseases that kill South African...
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Farewell to the 'everywhere man'
It's been a career defined by the 'politics of belonging' for outgoing Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Crain Soudien. In this interview with Monday Monthly he talks about his first day at UCT 42 years...
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Quinn Slobodian, author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, wrote of West Germany's "own #RhodesMustFall moment". On the Africa is a Country blog, Slobodian recalled how...
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Pulse of a new day
It's the season of change. There's a tinge of orange left above Devil's Peak at 6pm, some oak trees threaten to sprout new leaves, and the first-year cohort are now veterans of their first full...
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Conversations in community: Second wind
Neonatal nurse trainer, midwife, paraglider, animal lover and high‑mountain trekker Hilary Barlow of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health is next up in our series of...
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A case study: How to turn the numbers around
Professor Jenni Case has been working in academic development in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1996. She reflects on how the...
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