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		<title>The State of Clinical Research in South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 13-member consensus panel of experts, chaired by Prof Bongani Mayosi (UCT), have compiled a 11 chapter report on the Revitalization of Clinical Research in South Africa (SA). This report provides a review of the overall state of clinical research in SA.
The report looks at: why clinical research is important, it&#8217;s history in SA, the national culture supporting it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/09/06/the-state-of-clinical-research-in-south-africa/</link>
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		<title>National Science Week 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in collaboration with the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA), held lectures during the National Science Week from 2 to 7 August 2010 in all nine provinces.
The lectures were aimed at encouraging students to further their studies up to post-graduate level, highlight the contribution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/08/16/national-science-week-2010/</link>
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		<title>SAJS: Land-cover change puts biodiversity at risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Land-cover transformation poses one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity and, in light of extensive land-cover change, protected areas are often viewed as a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for conservation. However, there has been growing awareness that formally protected area systems are failing to protect global biodiversity effectively.
Conservation initiatives have had to look beyond reserve fences, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/08/12/in-the-latest-sajs-land-cover-change-puts-biodiversity-at-risk/</link>
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		<title>Women still under-represented in S&amp;T, is consensus at TWOWS Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Representatives from the South African chapter of the Third World Organisation for Women in Science (TWOWS) attended the TWOWS Fourth General Assembly and International Conference on &#8220;Women Scientists in a Changing World&#8221;, which was held in Beijing, China on the 27-30 June 2010.
A  keynote speech by South African Minister of Science and Technology, Ms Naledi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/07/12/women-still-under-represented-in-st-is-consensus-at-twows-conference/</link>
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		<title>SciELO SA is growing!</title>
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The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is happy to report that four more journal titles are in the process of being added to the SciELO SA Open Access platform! They are: 
-          Psychology in Society (PINS)
-          South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP)
-          South African Journal of Animal Science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/06/10/scielo-sa-is-growing/</link>
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		<title>SciELO Brazil visits ASSAf</title>
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Working out who will win the World Cup?

Back: Thabo Radebe, Zweli Ndayi and Tawanda December
Front: Roberta Takenaka, Louise van Heerden and Solange Santos
Two representatives from SciELO Brazil Solange Santos (the SciELO supervisor) and Roberta Takenaka (SciELO System Analyst) visited ASSAf from 24 May to 2 June 2010 for SciELO IT and SciELO workflow training. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/06/08/scielo-brazil-visits-assaf/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name? The naming of Australopithecus sediba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof Alan Morris, UCT; Associate Editor of SAJS
The first person to describe a new fossil gets the rights to name it. This has got be done at the time of the first publication as the privilege is not retrospect. Hesitate and someone else will pip you at the post. The payout is pretty impressive because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/05/10/whats-in-a-name-the-naming-of-australopithecus-sediba/</link>
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		<title>Science Education in SA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof Diane Grayson, Committee Member, ASSAf STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Committee 
South Africa can never produce enough scientists, engineers and technologists until the quality of science education offered at schools improves. The factor that affects this quality the most is the quality of teaching. This, is turn, is affected by the school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/05/04/science-education-in-sa/</link>
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		<title>World Bank group announces that it opens data to all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following announcement has been made by the World Bank, and might be of interest. Click here to read the complete announcement on the World Bank website.
Development Indicators, and Global Economic Monitor are now free, open, and easy to access at data.worldbank.org.
Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/04/28/world-bank-group-announces-that-it-opens-data-to-all/</link>
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		<title>Securing the Humanities in an Age of Failing Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof Peter Vale, Co-Chair, ASSAf Consensus Panel on the Humanities
From almost every corner of the Anglophone world, the complaint is the same: “The Humanities are under threat”. I use the qualifier because, sadly, my ability to access other language worlds – beyond  the Dutch-Afrikaans link – is limited.*
The question is what is to be done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2010/04/07/securing-the-humanities-in-an-age-of-failing-economics/</link>
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