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2023-04-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

A university that defies barriers to deliver education for the marginalised

In celebration of Unisa's 150th anniversary, esteemed scholars and industry giants share their thoughts on how this august university positively impacts society in South Africa and the globe.

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2023-02-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

Long live Unisa, long live!

Unisa staff and students share their well wishes ahead of the university's 150th anniversary (#Unisa150) official academic opening ceremony on Friday 10 February 2023.

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2023-02-06 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Featured, Featured, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Unisa participates in the 2022 National Three Minute Thesis Competition

The College of Graduate Studies facilitated the university's participation in the 2022 National Three Minute Thesis Competition. Through three of its students, Unisa joined over 900 universities worldwide that participated in 2022.

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2022-11-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Dept Business management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Unisa's ODL expert garners global recognition

Prof Paul Prinsloo, an academic from the Business Management Department based in the Unisa College of Economic and Management Sciences, has recently been appointed by a Nigerian open university as a visiting scholar to participate in a vibrant educational project of applying learning analytics in distance education.

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2022-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Accounting Sciences, Featured, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Unisa's Value Creators team aces university category for second month in a row

The Value Creators team from Unisa won the August University Speculator category in the JSE Investment Challenge for the second month in a row, taking home the prize with growth of 20.71% in July and then 10.04% in August.

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2022-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Guiding future tourism professionals to make informed choices

Unisa recently participated in the annual National Tourism Career Expo by providing practical career guidance to future tourism professionals and to contribute to the tourism sector’s promotion efforts, which contribute positively to the country’s GDP.

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2022-10-05 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate

Defying the odds: Student with multiple disabilities to graduate at Unisa

Lehutso Jonas Ntini, who is a paraplegic and has a speech defect, has completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Management at Unisa through sheer willpower and an immense contribution from the university’s Advocacy and Resource Centre for Students with Disabilities.

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2022-05-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Keeping hope alive and learning how to dance in the rain

Refusing to give up during the darkest time of her life, Riaana Robberts wrote her final exams going through chemotherapy after being diagnosed with aggressive stage-three breast cancer.

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2022-05-09 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Dept of Decision Sciences, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

Meet Professor Kerstin Jordaan – A whiz with numbers

As a B3 NRF-rated academic, Professor Kerstin Jordaan is one of only three B-rated female mathematicians in South Africa. She is also only the fifth female in her field to have been rated in this category since the inception of the NRF ratings in 1984.

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