Date : 05 March 2009 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 Presenters: Andrew Jamison, Professor of Technology and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark Mr William Blankley, Director in the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII), HSRC Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers, Chair of…
Date : 10 March 2009 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Hosted by : ESSD Presenters: Dr Linda Chisholm and Mr Hlengani Baloyi, of the Education, Science and Skills Development Group, HSRC. Poor mathematics results were the subject of a major debate in the 2008 matric results.…
Date : 24 March 2009 Time : 18:00 – 20:00 Location : ENews – Atlas Studios, Milpark Presenters : Professor Antanas Mockus, the former Mayor of Bogota in Colombia, and leaders from a range of SA political parties The Democracy and Governance programme, HSRC in collaboration with the…
Date: 26 March 2009 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 Hosted by: The Native Club in partnership with the HSRC Presenters : Ian Davidson, Chief whip of the DA This is the fourth lecture in the series with the theme Informed Choice: Elections 2009. The aim of the series of lectures is to provide a platform…
Date : 02 April 2009 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenters : Professor Ivor Chipkin, Democracy and Governance, HSRC The decolonisation of Africa from the 1950s saw the irruption on the world stage of multiple, new nation-states. Between 1951 (Libyan independence) and 1994 (the end of…
Date : 07 April 2009 Time : 15:30 – 17:00 Hosted by : The Native Club in partnership with the HSRC Presenters : Rev. Musa Zondi, Secretary General IFP This is the fourth lecture in the series with the theme Informed choice: Elections 2009. The aim of the series of lectures is…
Date : 14 April 2009 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 Presenters: Astrid Szogs, PhD Candidate at the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence, Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden. African countries are faced with severe challenges regarding the accumulation of technological…
Date : 15 April 2009 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 Presenters : Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough, Faculty of Education University of Cambridge What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to live in the post 9/11 urban inner city, where intimations of incipient terrorism, both…
Date : 16 April 2009 Time : 18:00 – 20:00 Hosted by : The HSRC and The Native Club You are cordially invited to attend this round table discussion organised by The Native Club in partnership with the HSRC. The following lecture will be presented from Pretoria, but may be…
Date : 05 May 2009 Time : 12:30 – 14:00 Presenters : Prof. Servaas van der Berg, Professor of Economics, University of Stellenbosch South African school education is of a poor quality, as both internal and internal evaluations attest. This largely derives from weakly performing schools. For…
