News for and about students in South Africa.<\/p>\n
New project set to benefit 3000 students in Eastern Free State<\/strong><\/p>\n Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister Buti Manamela will launch the Thabo Mofutsanyana\u00a0District Municipality Project<\/a>\u00a0 today (December 13). The project will benefit close on 3,000 learners with training in trades including plumbing, electrical, carpentry, tiling, bricklaying, and building and civil construction. Earlier this week Manamela expressed concern at the low rates of applications to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges\u00a0with only 12% of learners choosing to apply<\/a>. The majority (88%) of applicants plan to attend universities, according to\u00a0National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) applications for 2019. – Information courtesy of the\u00a0Department of Higher Education and Training<\/a>\u00a0and NSFAS<\/a><\/p>\n UWC launches revolutionary DNA testing kit\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n University of the Western Cape (UWC)\u2019s DNA Forensic Laboratory has launched a\u00a0DNA profiling system called UniQ-TyperTM Y-10.\u00a0The kit targets the male Y-Chromosome, and was initially designed to aid in sexual assault cases. Department head,\u00a0Professor Maria Eugenia D\u2019Amato, stated that: \u201cMany commercial genotyping kits do not capture the genetic diversity existing in Africa, meaning that\u00a0individuals are difficult to discriminate and therefore difficult to incriminate as perpetrators or eliminate as innocents. The design of this kit was completed after evaluating the genetic diversity among SA men from different ethnic backgrounds.\u201d UWC has already hosted an international workshop on the application of the kit. It was attended by various police representatives from South Africa, Lesotho and Ghana as well as local and international academics, among others. Besides assisting with criminal forensic investigations, the new kit could also play a role in genealogy, family and anthropology studies.\u00a0– Read the article on the UWC<\/a> site<\/p>\n TUT Ladies Football team score R200,000 first prize in national league<\/strong><\/p>\n Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Ladies football team\u00a0beat\u00a0Durban Ladies 4-0 and became Sasol League National Champions for the first time. Durban Ladies took silver for the first time in their 10 years of participating in the Sasol League and University of the Western Cape (UWC) took the bronze medal.\u00a0TUT Ladies were rewarded with R200,000 for their victory after a dream season with only two losses\u00a0and joined UWC to be the only two university teams to top their respective provincial logs<\/a>. – Read more on the article on the IOL<\/a> site<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News for and about students in South Africa. New project set to benefit 3000 students in Eastern Free State Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister Buti Manamela will launch the Thabo Mofutsanyana\u00a0District Municipality Project\u00a0 today (December 13). The project will benefit close on 3,000 learners with training in trades including plumbing, electrical, carpentry, tiling, bricklaying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,122],"tags":[66,246,59,68,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}