General News

View the list of winners of the Claude Harris Leon Honours Bursaries for 2013.

All Wits academics that have recently received NRF ratings were congratulated during a celebration that took place in the Wits Art Museum on 29 November 2012.

A summarized Power Point presentation was made at the University Research Committee on 22 August 2012.

Part of the mandate of the Knowledge Fields Development Directorate (KFD) is to promote new knowledge and to push the boundaries of existing knowledge and associated research capacity by stimulating and developing the entire spectrum of knowledge fields.

The Trust awards a limited number of grants each year for postgraduate study at Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral level.

The University has been granted access to the database of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), based at the University of Michigan.

Special Terms for African Researchers (STAR)

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Employees on 50% time or above may receive a 4% gross salary increment on completion of a recognized higher degree (Academic and Support Staff). Further, any member of the Academic Staff completing a PhD will receive a R 12,000 research grant.

The NRF has put a report on its website, which seeks to provide objective information and statistics and explain relevant procedures and policies.

View a list of NRF-rated scientists at Wits (current at February 2013).