10 March 2021
Pretoria, Wednesday 10 March 2021 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Universities South Africa (USAf) are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2020 Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities. The 2020 Awards will, in addition to…
16 February 2021
Pretoria, Monday 15 February 2021 – In his 2021 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a bold and ambitious set of priorities such as defeating COVID-19, accelerating the economy, implementing economic reforms to…
29 January 2021
Pretoria, 28 January 2021 – The Limpopo Provincial Health Department and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with research partners, Epicentre, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the National Health…
26 January 2021
For more information regarding details of the survey please download the document below: Today the Centre for Social Change (CSC), University of Johannesburg (UJ) in partnership with the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research…
21 January 2021
Pretoria, Thursday 21 January 2021 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with research partners, Epicentre, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), and the South…
11 December 2020
Please find below the the PDF of the TIMSS powerpoint for the Western Cape province. The Western Cape is one of the two most economically affluent provinces and its economy demands high-skilled tertiary education graduates, especially in Science,…
09 December 2020
South Africa conducts National COVID-19 Antibody Survey (NCAS) Pretoria, Wednesday 9 December 2020 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with research partners, Epicentre, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases…
08 December 2020
Pretoria, Tuesday 8 December 2020 – South Africa participated in TIMSS 2015 and 2019, at the Grade 5 level, in order to monitor educational progress in the primary education system. The Mathematics achievement in TIMSS 2015 and 2019…
“The South African TIMSS 2019 Mathematics and Science achievement, at the secondary level, continues to increase, achievement gaps decreased slightly but are still significant, but the pace of achievement improvement must increase to meet the…
02 December 2020
Pretoria, Thursday 3 December 2020 – The Human Sciences Research Council will bring together a consortium of partners from the humanities and social sciences in the country, under the theme of Radical Reason at the Department of Science and…
