Are history textbooks constructing the past in a way that allows learners to develop empathy by walking in many different people’s shoes?
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, also known as Wits University, is a leading, internationally-ranked, research-intensive university located in Johannesburg, South Africa, the economic heartland of Africa. Committed to academic and research excellence and social justice, Wits generates high level scarce skills for a globally competitive world, while addressing local social and economic development. At the forefront of a changing society, Wits is a social leader, dedicated to advancing the public good.
Wits is known for its work in deep level mining, science, health sciences, accountancy, law, governance, and the humanities, amongst others. It houses five faculties which comprise 34 schools. Wits offers approximately 3 600 courses to about 32 500 full-time students, of whom about a third are postgraduate and 55% are female. Almost 65% of all doctoral candidates and about half of all enrolments are in the Science, Engineering and Technology fields. Wits has developed about 130 000 graduates in its 93 years of existence. It has a proud record in that about 87% of all publications are in accredited international journals.
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There are several benefits of nurses providing input in policymaking processes. In South Africa, though, there are several barriers that prevent this.
Censorship may not be the answer, but there needs to be acknowledgement of the challenges involved in the disruption of media that the internet is wreaking across the planet and in people’s homes.
The late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and political philosophers Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe top the list of writers who get routinely abducted by discerning pirates of the book world.
The much-awaited report into the Marikana Massacre of 2012 is finally out. A new book tells how the miners’ struggles went on to influence labour relations across industries in South Africa.
The misguided belief that banks create money out of nothing has generated public anger with organisations and individuals calling for an overhaul of the system and an end to money creation by banks.
King Crickets, or Parktown Prawns as they’re more commonly known in South Africa, have been terrifying Johannesburg residents for many years.
What if instead of dismissing wrong answers as a sign of failure, maths teachers tried to understand how their pupils came to that answer and then guided them in the right direction?
Drawing on models that have proved hugely successful in major cities around the world, Wits University is creating a large and ambitious Digital Innovation Zone.
South Africa’s cervical cancer strategy has not yielded great results. Despite this, the country has still not opted for an alternative screening methods.
The secrets of the embryonic dinosaurs whose parents roamed South Africa 200 million years ago are finally in the process of being hatched.
Nurses who moonlight admit they feel too tired to work and don’t provide the best quality of care on duty.
Chronic environmental noise, like cars zooming past or airplanes overhead, can make children struggle with reading comprehension and affect their memory.
South Africa needs a new rape policy that will change the way the police collect statistics.
As the African Development Bank Group changes leadership, Africa’s multilateral financier must chart a new course, including raising the contribution and voice of Africans in the institution.
Southern African countries do not face water scarcity and do not need to build joint water projects. But they do need talk to each other to avoid misunderstandings.
The Karoo provides not only a historical record of biological change over a period of Earth’s history but also a means to test theories of evolutionary processes over long periods of time.
As a signatory to the Rome Statute, South Africa is obliged to arrest Omar al-Bashir and end his status as a fugitive from international law for war crimes allegedly committed in the conflict in Darfur.
Science shows that thinking about sexuality in a binary fashion of hetero/homosexual is no longer accurate. Rather, evidence shows that there is a diversity of human sexuality and sexual orientations.
Scientific evidence shows that same-sex orientation is determined before you are born.
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Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Clinician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Wits Centre for Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Dinosaur Paleontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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SA UK Bilateral Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoc Research Fellow - Digital Governance and Media, University of the Witwatersrand
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Curator of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Palaeontology student, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Academic and treaty negotiator, University of the Witwatersrand
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Acting Head of Environmental Justice, Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
