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Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1951

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1951
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8085 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004395
  • Description: Rhodes University Inaugural Celebrations Programme. Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Friday, 9th March, 1951. , Installation as Chancellor of the University of Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, C.B.E., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., and Honorary Graduation Ceremony in the City Hall, Grahamstown, Thursday, October 25th, 1951, 11a.m.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Medical Education in Decentralized Settings: How Medical Students Contribute to Health Care in 10 Sub-Saharan African Countries

  • Authors: Talib, Zohray , van Schalkwyk, Susan , Cooper , I , Pattanaik , Swaha , Turay , Khadija , Sagay, Atiene S , Baingana , Rhona , Baird , Sarah , Gaede , Bernhard , Iputo, Jehu , Kibore , Minnie , Manongi , Rachel , Matsika , Antony , Mogodi , Mpho , Ramucesse , Jeremais , Ross, Heather , Simuyeba, Moses , Haile-Mariam, Damen
  • Date: 10-2017
  • Subjects: Sub Sahara Africa Medical Education Health Care Medical Students Computer File
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/5786 , vital:44644 , https://doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002003
  • Description: Purpose: African medical schools are expanding, straining resources at tertiary health facilities. Decentralizing clinical training can alleviate this tension. This study assessed the impact of decentralized training and contribution of undergraduate medical students at health facilities. Method: Participants were from 11 Medical Education Partnership Initiative-funded medical schools in 10 African countries. Each school identified two clinical training sites-one rural and the other either peri-urban or urban. Qualitative and quantitative data collection tools were used to gather information about the sites, student activities, and staff perspectives between March 2015 and February 2016. Interviews with site staff were analyzed using a collaborative directed approach to content analysis, and frequencies were generated to describe site characteristics and student experiences. Results: The clinical sites varied in level of care but were similar in scope of clinical services and types of clinical and nonclinical student activities. Staff indicated that students have a positive effect on job satisfaction and workload. Respondents reported that students improved the work environment, institutional reputation, and introduced evidence-based approaches. Students also contributed to perceived improvements in quality of care, patient experience, and community outreach. Staff highlighted the need for resources to support students. Conclusions: Students were seen as valuable resources for health facilities. They strengthened health care quality by supporting overburdened staff and by bringing rigor and accountability into the work environment. As medical schools expand, especially in low-resource settings, mobilizing new and existing resources for decentralized clinical training could transform health facilities into vibrant service and learning environments.
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  • Date Issued: 10-2017

An exploration of Work-Integrated Learning for a professional public service. The co-creation of the public servant of the future.

  • Authors: Draai, Enaleen
  • Subjects: Public Service, Work-Integrated Learning , Public Service, Public servant of the future
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , PDF , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/66482 , vital:75534
  • Description: In its quest for growth and development, society is continually met with new and emerging phenomena that seek co-existence with perennial issues. Society is thus defined by a myriad of complex socioeconomic, governance, political, and technological challenges requiring problem-solving for change. Human capital development informed by requisite knowledge, competence, and skills becomes crucial. However, graduate employability has drawn substantial attention from employers and the world of work, citing a mismatch between the curriculum pursued in higher education and the work readiness of graduates. In this discussion, higher education refers to universities. The implication is that these graduates do not hold the attributes and aptitudes required and expected by the world of work. Graduates lack the requisite aptitude to transfer the knowledge acquired (Breedenkamp, Botma and Nyoni 2023:36; Mseleku 2022:775). These assertions are particular where regulation and professional registration are not a requirement of the qualification and occupation. Studies have also shown that students cite a mismatch between the curriculum pursued, which is focused chiefly on theoretical foundations with little emphasis on practical linkage and their ability to secure employment, thus compounding the transition from studentship to employee. (Harry, Chinyamurindi and Mjoli: 2018:2; Mncayi 2021). Furthermore, the qualifications pursued by graduates are cited as not meeting labour demands where a scarce skills gap exists. In addition, under-employment is also evident when individuals assume employment in areas that do not develop their expertise in the qualifications pursued. Similarly, the individuals also pursue continuous temporary and short-term contractual employment unrelated to their disciplinary focus acquired (Basson, du Plessis and Brink 2023:119). The ability to secure employment draws attention to the individual and the attributes held for employability.
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Novobiocin–ferrocene conjugates possessing anticancer and antiplasmodial activity independent of HSP90 inhibition.

  • Authors: Mbaba, Mziyanda , de la Mare, Jo-Anne , Sterrenberg, Jason N , Kajewole, Deborah , Maharaj, Shantal , Edkins, Adrienne L , Isaacs, Michelle , Hoppe, Heinrich C , Khanye, Setshaba D
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122858 , vital:35359 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-018-1634-9
  • Description: A series of tailored novobiocin–ferrocene conjugates was prepared in moderate yields and investigated for in vitro anticancer and antiplasmodial activity against the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer line and Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 strain, respectively. While the target compounds displayed moderate anticancer activity against the breast cancer cell line with IC50 values in the mid-micromolar range, compounds 10a–c displayed promising antiplasmodial activity as low as 0.889 µM. Furthermore, the most promising compounds were tested for inhibitory effects against a postulated target, heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90).
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Structure and agency in the age of climate change

  • Authors: Cherry, Janet
  • Subjects: South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21033 , vital:29429
  • Description: What I will present here is based on my grappling over the past three decades with one of the central problems of social science – the relationship between social structure and human agency. This is not a new problem for social scientists; from Karl Marx, who understood that human beings make history, but not in circumstances of their choosing; to the French structuralists who conceived the term ‘relative autonomy’ and ‘overdetermination’; to Anthony Giddens’ ‘structuration theory’ and other contemporary sociologists. What is new are the changing physical circumstances of the world in which we live, which mean that human society can no longer afford to analyse ourselves and our social, political and economic systems independently of the natural world.
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Tax deduction for married women

  • Authors: Cape Town Trade Union Library
  • Subjects: Cape Town Trade Union Library
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152439 , vital:39277
  • Description: All married women earning over R150 per month or over R34 per week have PAYE deducted from their wages. PAYE is income tax which is paid by workers on the "pay as you earn" system. Married men, however, pay tax only when their wages are over R500 per month. Single women pay tax only when their wages are over R350 per month. As you can see from the tables which follow, the tax on married women can be quite high. For example, if a married woman earns R220 per month, she will have R9,45 per month deducted from her wages for PAYE. (See Table No. 4). Married women who have children pay the same tax as if they haul no children, too. And there is no reduction in tax if you are over 60 years old, as there is for men. There is nothing can be done about this discrimination against married women until the government changes the tax rules.
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What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words.

  • Authors: Crous, Marius
  • Subjects: Shakespear, William, 1564-1616 , Shakespear, William, Hamlet
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , PDF , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/66415 , vital:75241
  • Description: The title of this lecture is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the two keywords, namely read and words will form the basis of my reflection on my life as an academic. Both are essential components of any academic project and both still play a significant role in my everyday life as a reader, a critic, a teacher, a reviewer, a poet or a translator. In my lecture I will focus briefly on the art of reading, reading and meaning, types of reading and end on a more personalized note with an analysis of the role of the poet as reader and make reference to both my poems and other poems within the discipline of Afrikaans literature.
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