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EDITOR: BETTIE GILIOMEE
Brave kids honoured
Captain Courage, an event organised by the Reach For A Dream Foundation, is aimed at celebrating the bravery of young boys facing lifethreatening conditions. Reach For A Dream recently partnered with Coastal Water Rescue (CWR) for the Captain Courage event where the boys received handson water safety training. Read more about this on page 8. Pictured are Andrew Smit of CWR with little Aviwe. PHOTO: DONNA VD WATT PHOTOGRAPHY
NMMU student numbers rise
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NROLMENT figures at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) are set to increase in 2016 if initial registration statistics are anything to go by.
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dents – or more than 84% of the 2015 student body – had registered. This represents a 10% increase over the same period last year. With late registration beginning today and continuing until 29 February, and postgraduate registrations still ongoing, the 2015 figure of 26 376 is expected to be superseded in 2016. Of the 22 199 who have registered to date, more
than 87% of them did so online. All of NMMU’s faculties have thus far shown an increase in numbers (with percentage increase in brackets): ) Arts – 2702 (7.18%) ) Business and Economic Sciences – 7844 (9.89%) ) Education – 1628 (10.15%)
) Engineering, the Built Environment and IT – 3535 (9.17%) ) Health Sciences – 3063 (12.53%) ) Law – 1040 (21.07%) ) Science – 2193 (7.45%). Continued on page 3
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