09 June 2022
Volume: 10
Issue: 26
Second overall ranking for UKZN’s Graduate School of Business and Leadership in the Professional Market Research Africa (PMR).africa annual national survey.

GSB&L Maintains Second Highest Ranking for SA Business Schools

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UKZN’s Graduate School of Business and Leadership (GSB&L) has maintained its second overall ranking in the Professional Market Research Africa (PMR).africa annual national survey of Accredited Business Schools offering MBA degrees in South Africa.

Community Engagement sectors in the College of Humanities help communities affected by the recent KZN floods.

College of Humanities Lends Helping Hand to KZN Flood Victims

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UKZN staff and students, through Community Engagement sectors in the College of Humanities, recently assisted communities that were affected by the recent KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) floods which left hundreds of people dead, and thousands displaced.

Graduate School of Business and Leadership webinar series.

Webinar Focuses on Efficient Administration and Good Governance

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Is South Africa Succeeding in Promoting Efficient Administration and Good Governance?

Some of the UKZN-SAICA Students’ Awards recipients.

High-Achieving Accounting Students Recognised at UKZN-SAICA Students’ Awards Ceremony

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Forty-nine top achieving first, second and third-year and postgraduate students in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance were recognised for their academic excellence at the annual virtual UKZN-South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Students’ Awards Ceremony.

Clockwise from left: Dr Sibonsile Zibane, Professor Nhlanhla Mkhize, Dr Nontobeko Buthelezi, Ms Nokukhanya Zondi, Ms Fundile Ndlanzi and Ms Elaine Brass.

UKZN Honours First Cohort of Ma’at Institute Interns

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Twenty-four (24) interns who were part of the first cohort of the COVID-19 Psychosocial Internship Programme (CPIP) were recently honoured at an award ceremony.

Data Science Initiative - Africa: Research Training on Harnessing Data Science for Global Health Priorities in Africa launch, Durban, May 2022.

Symposium Focusing on DSI Africa Launch

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The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan), USA, and Heidelberg University, Germany hosted a symposium focusing on research training and the harnessing of data science for global health priorities in Africa.

Top from left: Dr Stacy Maddocks, Dr Alvin Munsamy, and Dr Diane van Staden. Bottom from left: Professor Saul Cobbing and Ms Zandile Shezi.

SHS Academics Table Medical Education Transformation on World Stage

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Academics from UKZN’s School of Health Sciences recently presented a virtual workshop at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education.

Mr Mohamed Hoosen Suleman at the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva.

Inspiring Top Medical Student Attends WHO’s High-Level Meeting in Geneva

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Mr Mohamed Hoosen Suleman, a fourth-year Medical student at UKZN, was selected as one of only three Medical students globally for the Changemaker Scholarship to attend both the Youth Pre-World Health Assembly (Pre-WHA) and World Health Assembly (WHA) held at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Sinethemba Ximba who received a PhD in Plant Pathology.

Going Bananas for Academia

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‘UKZN has laid a great foundation for my academic career as I have been a student here since first year,’ says PhD graduate in Plant Pathology, Dr Sinethemba Ximba.

Dr Gill Lawrie applauded by the School of Clinical Medicine for her passion and contribution to dermatology.

KZN Specialist Dermatologist Applauded for Passion in Patient Care and Training

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The School of Clinical Medicine (SCM) would like to acknowledge and congratulate Dr Gill Lawrie for her boundless and unselfish contribution in setting up the dermatological surgery service which not only benefits patients, but also trains registrars in this component.

Professor Mark Hunter.

Connections Between Unemployment and Drugs from the 19th Century to the Era of Whoonga

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The College of Humanities recently hosted a webinar on Drugs at Work - Connections Between Work/Unemployment and Drugs from the 19th Century to the Era of Whoonga presented by Professor Mark Hunter from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Student Support Services in the College of Law and Management Studies is here for students.

CLMS Mentorship Training Programme

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Student Support Services (SSS) in the College of Law and Management Studies (CLMS) rolled out a two-day intensive training programme with staff from the Academic Monitoring and Support unit on 11 and 14 April 2022.

Professor Mariam Seedat-Khan delivers the keynote address at the KZN Blind and Deaf Society.

UKZN Clinical Sociologist Delivers Keynote at KZN Blind and Deaf Society

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Clinical Sociologist in the School of Social Sciences, Professor Mariam Seedat-Khan delivered the keynote address at the KwaZulu-Natal Blind and Deaf Society’s Mother’s Month Breakfast.

UKZN graduate, Ms Nozi Masondo.

New Workplace Harassment Code: What You Need to Know

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On 18 March 2022, Mr Thulas Nxesi, the Minister of Employment and Labour, repealed the Amended Code of Good Practice on the Handling of Sexual Harassment Cases in the Workplace and replaced it with the new Code of Good Practice on the Prevention and Elimination of Harassment in the Workplace in terms of section 54 of the Employment Equity Act (EEA).