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Whizz kids: The 2025 cohort of the National Science and Technology Forum’s Brilliants Programme. Photos: National Science and Technology Forum

Top pupils get wings to help SA soar

Through the NSTF Brilliants Programme, a group of top maths and science learners are becoming tomorrow’s problem-solvers, innovators and leaders

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Members of UP’s Innovation and Contracts Management Division joined the CEO of the hearX Group to sign an agreement to transfer UP’s Intellectual Property in the hearScreen invention to hearScreen (Pty) Ltd on 18 November 2024. From left: Refilwe Ngoato, Manager: Technology Transfer Office; Simon Thanyani, Manager: Research Contracts and Innovation; Nic Klopper, CEO of hearScreen (Pty) Ltd; Adv Lawrence Baloyi, Head: Innovation and Contracts Management; and Gerrie Moster, UP commercialisation specialist

Spin-out company of the University of Pretoria achieves an important milestone

Stellenbosch University (SU) is on a mission to empower each member of its community to become an agent of change

4 min read
South African higher academic institutions have called for a ceasefire and the promotion of education in Palestine-Israel

University of Pretoria still reviewing resolution on Palestine

Students and staff at the university who are sympathetic to Palestine have asked that it boycott all Israeli academic institutions

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) team.

The cosmos decoders

IDIA team pioneers data-intensive astronomy in South Africa

  • Derek Davey
2 min read