Introductory Chinese (students)
Sporty two blaze to glory
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South Africa failing its children - report
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Obituary: Graham Beck
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Plant physiologists goes gold
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New award to encourage young medical scientists
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Crash course in South Africa for US visitors
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Students divided on long vac
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Be creative, Price tells new managers
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A retreat from the hospital
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Pinup science for nation's schools
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Lydia Hall and Frans Mamabolo, sports administrators in UCT's Sport & Recreation section, were recently honoured by University Sport South Africa (USSA) for their service and commitment to student sport and their work within USSA specifically. 
The South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 can probably be summed up as a damning report on the state of health of South Africa's young. The Gauge is an annual publication of the Children's Institute at UCT, and aims to track and report the situation of the country's children. 
Mining entrepreneur, self-made billionaire, renowned horse breeder and famous for his eponymous wines, Graham Beck, died on 26 July at a clinic in London. Beck, who would have been 81 in December, had been diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2010. 
If water stress is the Achilles' heel of agriculture and climate change is just tightening the screws, it's a good thing that scientists like Professor Jill Farrant are "working on the right thing at the right time". 
Young medical researchers were honoured for their outstanding output at the first Best Publication Awards held by UCT's School of Medicine on 26 July. Opening the ceremony, deputy dean Professor Greg Hussey said that he hoped the awards would become a regular event, and will encourage and retain young researchers at the faculty. 
Master's and PhD researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in the US, led by Professor Mary-Beth Gasman, were warmly welcomed by UCT's International Academic Programme Office (IAPO) and the Centre for Higher Education and Development (CHED) at a function on 21 July. 
It was back to old routines yesterday when UCT students returned to lecture rooms following an extraordinarily long six-week winter vacation, thanks, in part, to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. So everyone had the first-day blues, as student Lorraine Netshivhambe puts it, with long-separated classmates hugging one another. 
A new cohort of line managers was unveiled at UCT when 12 staff members celebrated the completion of a national certificate in management programme, offered, for the first time, through the Staff Learning Centre. 
The Faculty of Health Sciences has officially launched a new student learning centre in the Cape Flats suburb of Retreat, where students will work and learn in the kinds of health-care conditions they will probably run into often during their careers. 
Thousands of edu-taining posters and flyers are part of UCT's Faculty of Science's contribution to this year's National Science Week, which takes place from 2 to 7 August. The three posters, targeting mainly primary school learners, are fact-filled, full-colour sheets on the themes The Secret Life of Viruses, Metal-Making in the Past, and Evolution: the Process of Natural Selection.