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Bringing together student mentors and first-year students from various academic programs to relax and connect with their peers in a fun and casual setting.
13 May 2024
Bringing together student mentors and first-year students from various academic programs to relax and connect with their peers in a fun and casual setting.
This Human Rights Day, the Faculty embarks on a renewed journey to amplify stories of exclusion from members of our Faculty community as well as alumni from years past. Our commitment is to build ways leading to greater inclusion.
To equip nurses, who work regularly or occasionally with sick children, with essential knowledge and skills to confidently provide the most appropriate nursing care to sick children and their families.
(Ends 17 September 2024)
This course will introduce nurses working with sick newborns to essential knowledge and skills. An assessment of clinical skills competence in participants' clinical settings is recommended.
(Ends 17 September 2024)
To equip nurses, who work regularly or occasionally with sick children, with essential knowledge and skills to confidently provide the most appropriate nursing care to sick children and their families.
(Ends 17 November 2024)The Centring African Languages to Decolonize Curricula (CALDC) project invites you to participate in a voluntary research study about the linguistic proficiency in African languages among staff and students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town.
The purpose of this study is to collect useful demographic information from and of people in the Faculty of Health Sciences that speak and use African home languages. This demographic information will help in developing clear strategies to strengthen the development and use of African languages in for teaching and learning. Participation in this study will involve completing a 27-item online language history questionnaire. Duration to complete the survey is approximately 20 minutes. Participation in this study is free and voluntary with no monetary compensation. Participants are free to withdraw from the study at anytime.
Who is eligible?
- Academic staff and students. For this study academic staff refers to all members of the faculty employed in an educator capacity by the University of Cape Town, therefore have UCT email addresses.
- Students refer to all those who are registered as students in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Complete this survey and stand a chance to win 1 of 4 pairs of crocs! Entry into the draw
is only through successful completion of the survey! Don’t miss out!
Research proposals may be in any discipline - including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health - as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the Wellcome Trust’s funding remit.
Funder deadlines (3 deadlines per year):
Please find the full call for the Early-Career Award opportunity here, and for the Career Development Award opportunity here.
Award details:
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