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Google funds app matching learners with universities based on marks<\/strong><\/p>\n Gradesmatch<\/a>\u00a0was created to solve the problem of poor career guidance across Africa.\u00a0Using the app, learners simply enter in the subjects they’re taking and marks received. The app then automatically matches them with suitable tertiary institutions and qualifications. The start up has won this years\u00a0Google Impact Challenge<\/a>, receiving $250,000 (about R3.5 million) in grant funding.<\/p>\n Co-founders Lebogang Diale and Unathi September created the app to highlight a lack of career guidance counsellors at schools in previously disadvantaged communities.\u00a0With close to 84,000 users in SA and Namibia, learners are also linked with corporate mentors via the app and on submitting marks, pupils are matched to bursary opportunities. – Read more on this article on the Business Insider<\/a> site<\/p>\n TUT Soshanguve campuses finally start exams<\/strong><\/p>\n After six weeks of suspended classes, students at the\u00a0Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)’s Soshanguve campuses are finally sitting down to exams. Protests brought on by claims of rigged SRC elections ended with the fatal shooting<\/a> of\u00a0Katlego Monareng and the shutting down of both North and South campuses in August.\u00a0University spokesperson Willa de Ruyter said: \u201cWe upped security at the campuses to ensure that there will not be any Government lowers admission requirements to study a Bachelor’s degree<\/strong><\/p>\n The Department of Higher Education has confirmed that requirements admission to study for a Bachelor\u2019s degree have been lowered. As previously, one requires a National Senior Certificate (NSC, commonly still referred to as a matric) and 30% in the language of instruction of the higher education institution to study a Bachelor’s. Where the rules have loosened is that one now requires a 50% in any four\u00a020-credit NSC subjects, where previously those were limited to a specific list of subjects. The announcement was met with mixed reactions<\/a> from experts and institutions of higher learning, many of which have already complained that school leavers are inadequately prepared for university level studies.<\/p>\n Stellenbosch University spokesperson Martin Viljoen stated that \u201cPassing any Grade 12 subject at 30% is a poor indicator of the probability of a student passing a quality bachelor\u2019s degree. The latest gazetted announcement still does not challenge high school learners to adequately prepare for bachelor’s studies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Former University of the Free State vice-chancellor\u00a0Jonathan Jansen said last year that passing Grade 12 in\u00a0South Africa meant very little since exams are too easy and did not test students enough.\u00a0– Read more on this story on the My Broadband<\/a> site.<\/p>\n Suspect in court for\u00a0Unizulu professor’s murder<\/strong><\/p>\n A former University of Zululand (UniZulu) lecturer has appeared in court this week for his alleged part in the murder of prominent academic Professor Gregory Kamwendo. He is one of two men alleged to have planned the murder. Kamwendo was killed in a shooting at his home<\/a> in Empangeni in May of this year.\u00a0The killing was said to be in response to Kamwendo uncovering a fraudulent PhD syndicate at the university. The university has denied this in a statement<\/a>\u00a0and said vital facts had been distorted. It said that professor Kamwendo did not undertake any investigation into the alleged awarding of fake PhD qualifications.<\/p>\n However, it was noted that for the period 2017\/2018, the higher degrees committee and senate\u00a0“discovered that some of the presented dissertations were found not to comply with the policy imperatives,” UniZulu said. “It is the view of the University that Professor Kamwendo could have been a victim of this continuation of undermining the leadership through mafia tendencies hence his tragic assassination and untimely death. The University urges that the case should be allowed to follow all due processes without misrepresentations and fabrication of facts and justice must be done.”\u00a0– Read the full story on the News24<\/a> site<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News for and about\u00a0students in South Africa. 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\ndisruptions of the exams and that students can write in a conducive environment. It\u2019s compulsory that students will not be permitted into the exam venue without their timetables.\u201d Exams are expected to finish on December 21, while the rest of TUT’s students have already finished their exams. – Read more on the EWN<\/a>\u00a0site<\/p>\n