Author:Marquard, Stephen; Walji, Sukaina; Lester, Soraya; Kefale, Kende; Deacon, AndrewDate:25 Sep 2020Final report of the UCT Emergency Remote Teaching Student Experience Survey 2020, an online survey of student experiences of emergency remote teaching (ERT) during the 2nd term of 2020 (April to July 2020).
The purpose of the survey was ...Read more
Author:Brown, Cheryl; Chernotsky, Kira; Marquard, Stephen; Fellingham, KevinDate:24 Feb 2016In 2017 the University of Cape Town made a decision to roll out a programme to provide a new laptop to every first year undergraduate student fully funded through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme see http://mg.co.za/article/2017-02 ...Read morecb
Author:Nyahodza, LenaDate:06 Mar 2019A presentation on the purpose of sharing OREs at the University of Cape Town via the open access institutional repository (OpenUCT) and the impact these OERs may have on human development through self-directed learning.Read morecb
Author:Raju, ReggieDate:2019A presentation on the open publishing of open textbooks by UCT academics on UCT Libraries open publishing platform (Open Monograph Press) to alleviate cost of text books for UCT students.Read morecb
Author:Claassen, JillDate:06 Mar 2019A presentation on the impact open educational resources (OERs) have in human development to support social justice. The presenter relates how open education has potential to alleviate poverty on the African continent.Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2019The analyses undertaken to provide a scientific recommendation for the 2019 sardine TAC and TAB, under
Exceptional Circumstances were subject to a number of more serious uncertainties than would normally apply. Given
the critically low level ...Read more
Author:Standish-White, Jessica; Finn, ArdenDate:06 Jun 2017We use longitudinal data from three waves of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study to estimate the effect of pension receipt in the household on children's educational outcomes in South Africa. We find that children who co-reside with ...Read more
Author:Mattes, Robert; Shenga, CarlosDate:2013Mozambique is one of the poorest and most underdeveloped societies in the world. While poverty and the lack of infrastructure have many social and political consequences, perhaps the most important from the standpoint of the country’s democratic ...Read morecbnd
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2007The West Coast resource is divided into the following “super” areas: Area 1-2: The most Northern region – only a very small tonnage is currently caught in this area. Area 3-4 (Areas 3 and 4 only) Area 5-6 (Areas 5 and 6 only) Area 7 (Dassen ...Read more
Author:Ross, Hana; Tesche, Jean; Vellios, NicoleDate:06 Jun 2017Introduction: Effective tobacco tax increases reduce tobacco consumption, threatening the profitability of the tobacco industry. In response, the tobacco industry employs strategies to negate or minimize the full effects of tobacco tax ...Read more
Author:Russell, MargoDate:2004Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, ...Read morecbnd
Author:Leibbrandt, Murray; Bhorat, Haroon; Woolard, IngridDate:May 1999This paper uses various decomposition techniques to understand the nature of household inequality in contemporary South Africa. It examines, firstly, the importance of race in overall inequality; secondly, the contribution of major income ...Read morecbna
Author:Shaikh, ShihaamDate:Feb 2013Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ...Read morecb
Author:Shaikh, ShihaamDate:Feb 2013Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ...Read morecb
Author:Shaikh, ShihaamDate:04 Nov 2014Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ...Read morecba
Author:Shaikh, ShihaamDate:Feb 2013Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ...Read morecb