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www.sanews.gov.za |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Knowledge Management in Government
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President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation to the 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly.
The summit, scheduled to take place on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, coincides with the historic 50th anniversary Celebrations of the Organisation of African Unity/ African Union.
The theme of the summit is “Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance”.
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Cape Argus |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Knowledge Management in Government, Citizen Engagement
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This year’s Grade 10 pupils could find themselves the first class to take part in the government’s new centralised admission system for all of the country’s universities.
The advantages of a centralised admission system are:
- The payment of a single application fee, rather than a fee to each university approached;
- Immediate information about which universities still have places; and
- M ... Read More |
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http://www.avu.org/Press-Releases/press-release-avu-wins-a-third-international-award.html |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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The African Virtual University has won a global Award for the Outstanding Course/Text and Illustrations – Atomic Physics. According to Open CourseWare Consortium (OCWC), a global grass root open education movement, the Award recognized the AVU course - Atomic Physics – for “exemplary quality in its presentation of educational content (in breadth, depth, creativity)”.
The Awards for OpenCourseWare ... Read More |
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201305131819.html |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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Africa is experiencing a technological surge and it is having a dramatic effect on education throughout the Continent. Tech hubs are blossoming, new mobile devices and apps are being designed and produced in Africa, by Africans, and Africa's eLearning market is now the fastest-growing in the world.
With self-paced eLearning revenues forecast to double to US$512.7m by 2016, it is clear that sales ... Read More |
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Google Alert |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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Cape Town - Two new universities earmarked for Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape will open their doors next year, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.
“Much preparatory work has been done and I now expect to establish the two institutions as legal entities in the next month. R2.1 billion has been earmarked for the development of the universities over the next three years,” ... Read More |
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SAnews.gov.za |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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Government and big business are joining hands to improve service delivery, with a major announcement of capacity-building partnerships between business and municipalities expected to be made in August.
This was announced by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Richard Baloyi in his Budget Vote on Tuesday.
The Department of Cooperative Governance has been allocated ... Read More |
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Issued by the eThekwini Municipality’s Communications Unit |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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The eThekwini Municipality’s Clean My City Programme has drawn the attention of street traders in central Durban as they have committed themselves to ensuring that the areas they trade in are well maintained and cleaned.
The clean-up campaign was launched by Mayor James Nxumalo yesterday and is part of the Municipality’s response to service delivery and social challenges identified in certain pa ... Read More |
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Issued by the eThekwini Municipality's Communications Unit |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Institution and HR Management
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EThekwini Municipality has, on Thursday (16/05/2013), launched the Enterprise Development Strategy at the Marine Parade Hotel, to develop Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in the eThekwini Region. This coincided with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding where about 15 big businesses committed themselves to uplifting small businesses and to enhance their businesses skills.
T ... Read More |
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SADC Contribution – Mauritius |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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Citizen Engagement, Institution and HR Management
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Every young people should have equal opportunity and equal access to quality education, and that is why Government is investing massively in that sector, said the Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, GCSK, FRCP, at the State House this morning during a reception organised in honour of the laureates of the HSC 2012 examinations.
Dr Ramgoolam made an appeal to the laureates, whom he qualifie ... Read More |
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4 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : May 22, 2013 |
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SADC Contribution – Mauritius |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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ICT for MDGs
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An Intellectual Property and Software Workshop, aiming at familiarising IT professionals and software developers with major forms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Intellectual Property (IP) issues associated with software and computer programmes, trends and prospects, opened this morning at La Cannelle, in Domaine Les Pailles.
It is being organised as a joint initiative of the World I ... Read More |
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3 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : May 22, 2013 |
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