Wireless Power Transmission of Solar Energy from Space

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/wireless-power-transmission-of-solar-energy-from-space/

Multilingualism

Some notes, links and papers.

Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng nee Setati
Recently appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at UCT
She was at Wits, then at UNISA and now she is at UCT

http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9535

http://www.becomingyou.co.za/women-at-work-an-interview-with-professor-mamokgethi-phakeng/

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/78181996_Mamokgethi_Setati

MAMOKGETHI SETATI and JILL ADLER
BETWEEN LANGUAGES AND DISCOURSES: LANGUAGE
PRACTICES IN PRIMARY MULTILINGUAL MATHEMATICS
CLASSROOMS IN SOUTH AFRICA
http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/6ccc9e4059ebcfa562eecdcf71d20322/setati2000.pdf

Teaching Mathematics in a Primary Multilingual Classroom
Mamokgethi Setati
University of theW itwatersrand
http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/a87435f6a5b309faadee2952c100b4bf/10.2307@30034945.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony_Essien/publication/280942447_Research_on_multilingualism_in_mathematics_education_in_South_Africa_2000-2007/links/55cdadb008aebebb8f578608.pdf?origin=publication_list&ev=auth_pub_xdl

http://cyber.sci-hub.bz/MTAuNTk1MS9qcmVzZW1hdGhlZHVjLjQ0LjEuMDExOQ==/10.5951@jresematheduc.44.1.0119.pdf

http://mamokgethi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kgethi-CV-March-2014.pdf

http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/email/AbridgedCV.Phakeng.Dec2015.Final.pdf


THE CALCULUS OF SOCIAL CHANGE – MATHEMATICS AT THE CUTTING EDGE
Mamokgethi Setati Phakeng (Chair)
University of South Africa
The aim of this plenary panel is to explore the idea of a Mathematics Education that is at the cutting edge and on the cusp/crest of making a difference, hence the title, “The Calculus of Social Change – Mathematics at the Cutting Edge”. This theme will be addressed by four panellists. In this introduction I give the rationale for the plenary panel and describe how it has been organised.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.671.2061&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=353

The Universities and the challenges facing South Africa.

Our country is in crisis and our universities reflect that instability.
What is the actual situation at our universities?
Here are some articles which describe the challenges facing our universities
Please note that my publishing these links does not necessarily reflect my agreement or disagreement with the views expressed. I publish them with the intent of trying to understand the problems from as many different perspectives as possible.

1. The UCT Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price's restrained report on the UCT situation on Tuesday the 4th October 2016.
https://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9989

A report dated 4th November about the arrest of a UCT activist:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/uct-fallist-masixole-mlandu-arrested-again-for-vio

2. Pastor  Xola Skosana's war with privileged spaces
http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2016/06/10/pastor-xola-skosana-declares-war/ 

3. The thoughts of a socialist student leader - Athabile Nonxuba
http://www.studentinvestor.co.za/athabile-nonxuba-feesmustfall-interview/


4, Wits student leader Mcebo Dlamini
https://madibazradio.wordpress.com/politics/political-report-by-qhawe-ka-mkhwane/the-rise-and-fall-of-mcebo-dlamini/

5. Three old ones from 2013 and 2014 when Adam Habib had just been appointed vice-chancellor of Wits
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-30-00-mg-litfest-imagination-needed-to-face-this-new-moment-of-reckoning

http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2014/01/23/which-sa-universities-get-top-marks

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-11-07-varsities-we-darent-let-the-bucks-stop-here

6. A recent article about South African Business schools
http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2016/09/29/ranking-the-mbas-which-business-school-is-in-the-driving-seat

7. A overview of the senior management at UCT
https://www.uct.ac.za/about/management/execdirectors/

8. A New York Times Article about affirmative action at UCT
https://www.criminology-dev.uct.ac.za/usr/about/intro/transformation/new_york_times.pdf

9. Two articles from Achille Mbembe

http://www.litnet.co.za/interview-the-end-of-public-universities-in-south-africa/

 

http://mg.co.za/article/2016-09-22-mantashe-and-student-protesters-agree-on-university-shutdowns-but-this-is-the-last-thing-africa-needs-1

Entry Level University text books

Open source textbooks for entry level university courses
http://2012books.lardbucket.org/

2012 Book Archive

Creative Commons licensed, freely downloadable

What is this?

First off, this is not the website for the original publisher. Instead, this is the archive of a small project by Andy Schmitz to archive Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012. (That publisher has asked to remain unnamed here. For more information, see the attribution page.)
That publisher is a textbook publisher, focusing on (mostly entry-level) college textbooks. From their beginning until the end of 2012, they licensed all of their books under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license, allowing anyone who so desired to copy them, give them away, or modify them, as long as they acknowledged the authors, released the copies under the same license, and didn't do so for commercial gain. This was an unusual model, but they hoped it would work. (They sold access to additional study materials, as well as copies of books that would fit well on e-readers.)
In late 2012, they decided that the process of giving away access to their textbooks online wasn't working, and decided to switch to a different model, requiring students to pay for access to the books starting in 2013. (At least initially, these fees ware rather cheap compared to normal textbook prices, but still not free.)
Because the books were still available under a Creative Commons license at the end of 2012, I downloaded them to have copies known to be available under a Creative Commons license. I then repackaged them so that they are available outside of the publisher's website, and can be used by anyone under the terms of their Creative Commons license.