SA tightens its grip on ethics

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The discovery of falsification of data in a breast cancer trial has prompted South Africa to tighten ethical controls on medical research. The Health Department is assessing new ways to ensure that all research projects are monitored properly.

Medical research, Control

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Pretoria's plan proposes tiers and mergers but no money

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A South African government report proposes that the country's universities be reorganised in a three-tier system. It also suggests that up to 23 of the 36 higher education institutes could be merged.

Universities and colleges, Education and state

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SA dentist helps to heal racial abscess

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The task of transforming South Africa's higher education sector has been entrusted to Jairam Reddy who, being of Asian descent, was unable to pursue his chosen profession of dentistry at a South African university in the 1960s. The dept. of education's green paper on higher education released in late Dec. 1996, proposes sweeping reforms of South Africa's 21 universities and 15 polytechnics. A rapid expansion of higher education is planned with institutions being financially rewarded for satisfying the economy's need for more science graduates and the social need for more black graduates.

Planning, Higher education, Higher education and state

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