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Bufumbira volcanic field is the southernmost of the four Ugandan small Pleistocene to Recent volcanic fields within the western branch of the East African rift system. The rocks consist of silica undersaturated and vesicular basalts with numerous primary structures. The rocks consist of basanites, leucitites, olivine basalts, trachytes, tephrites, trachyandesites and andesites. The basalts are picritic in the northern part of the field where they are dominated by olivine and are...
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Substantial costs are associated with attrition of key talent in South African organizations. As a result, organisations invest in graduate internship programmes to attract and retain high calibre graduate interns. The main objective of the research was to determine whether soft skills and technical skills training, as part of a graduate internship programme, contributed to the retention of graduate interns in a South African Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) company. An...
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The results obtained by the analysis of the questionnaire de- monstrate that the environment created by the teachers has been very positive, and so have been the learning expectations of the students during the program (90% positive answers). The teachers and the contents of the courses have been positi- vely evaluated by more than 80% of the participants. The leng- th of the program and the installations obtained less positive answers (only 40%). CONCLUSIONS By comparing the questionnaire...
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Female farmers play a vital role in African agriculture, accounting for the majority of the agricultural workforce. However, agricultural research and higher education are disproportionately led by men. There is an urgent need for greater representation of women in the field of agricultural science and technology (ST however, more in-depth analysis is needed to explain the underlying causes of these shifts and to what degree they represent structural changes. • Levels of female participation...
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This paper is centred around the partnership between the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Research indicates that a crucial dimension of international orientation is the internationalisation of education. Internationalisation is an instrument to improve the quality of education or research, it helps to prepare students for a professional career, which is increasingly international as a result of the global knowledge economy and teaches...
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This paper attempts to explain the major reasons for the low levels of entrepreneurship in South Africa. The paper challenges the commonly held notion that entrepreneurial success is correlated to educational achievement, even though entrepreneurship is heavily reliant on innovation processes. This paper uses the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study reports on South Africa as a reference framework for its theoretical analysis and raises issues related to ethnicity, education and...