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Employer concerns with the quality of the skills and knowledge of recently employed graduates in South Africa: Description, analysis and implications for tertiary education, public policy and practice
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This qualitative study examined the nature and significance of current employer concerns with the quality of the skills and knowledge of their recently employed graduates. Employers require graduates who are able to perform ...
Remote working and labour legislation in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The coronavirus pandemic has caused working arrangements to evolve to remote work across the globe, which has become an area of concern for labour legislation, particularly in South Africa. The Labour Relations Act 66 of ...
Evaluation of a psychological capital intervention aimed at improving flourishing of first year students at a selected university in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This study evaluates whether psychological capital can improve the flourishing of first-year students at a selected university in the Western Cape. The problem is that recently many students entering South African universities ...
Exploring the use of social networks in accessing housing: A focus on the back-yard dwellers of Hanover Park, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This study explored social capital and social networks within the affordable housing arena. Although Apartheid officially ended in 1994 with the first non-racial democratic elections, the current housing spatial planning ...
Experiences of simulated patients in a clinical skills laboratory in a school of nursing at a university in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Nursing simulations using simulated patients have proven effective in creating realistic opportunities to enhance the students’ clinical competence within a safe learning environment. This safe learning environment potentially ...
An exploration of the subjective lived experiences of pregnant survivors of cyber intimate partner violence
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Focussing on interpersonal relations, this research project aimed to investigate subjective lived experiences of the newer form of gender-based violence (GBV), that is cyber intimate partner violence (cyber IPV) in the ...
Intervention strategy to improve pmtct programme implementation for HIV-exposed children in a rural sub-district in North West province
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Despite the remarkable general decrease of mother-to-child transmission in the global HIV
response, a high number, 84%, of child HIV infections are occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa,
particularly in rural areas. Mother-to-child ...
HIV managers’ perceptions and experiences regarding implementing HIV policies at primary health care facilities in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The implementation of policy involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into action. One major problem involved with implementing HIV policy within the Western Cape, South Africa is that there is a lack of ...
Tumour suppression and subdual of cancer (tussc) in elephants: An in vitro study to shed light on Peto’s paradox
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Logic would suggest that cancer incidence is related to body mass and longevity. Gigantic
animals such as elephants with a longer lifespan (more lifetime of cell divisions) and a larger
body size (more cells) will have ...
Exploring the barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis for men who have sex with men and transgender women in Harare metropolitan province, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Zimbabwe has made great strides in lowering overall HIV incidence and prevalence rates. However, regardless of the type of epidemic or the local context, some defined groups referred to as key populations are at an increased ...