Singapore has a visa for foreign students which expires after their studies are completed. After this, there is an option for working in Singapore through the application of a post-study work visa. Many students who have come here think that this is a big deal for them now that Singapore has become a global business hub. It is easy to gain experience in your career by getting exposure to international working standards.
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Post-Study Work Visa in Singapore – How and What to Apply For
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Children in SA are starving – One out of ten children had to go to bed hungry last year
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About 2.1 million children live in households where there is not enough food. Just over a third of these children live in KwaZulu-Natal and another 20% live in Gauteng. This is among the findings in a report titled “The South African Child Gauge 2019” released earlier. This comprehensive study of the circumstances in which South..
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ANC regime blows millions of rands on students to study medicine in Cuba – Costs amount to more than double the amount it would cost in SA
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Allegations are being made that the ANC Free State paid more than R330,000 per student to study in Cuba to become a doctor. This is more than double the amount it would have cost in South Africa, and the biggest problem is that the students did not graduate. It takes six years to graduate as..
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ANC uses social grants as ace card for the coming general elections – social grant recipients are scared they will lose grant if they vote for an opposition party
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When voters chose their parties on May 8, it’s likely that personal issues, such as grants and RDP houses, will have a major bearing. Most South African social grant recipients do not believe that the opposition parties would not take away their government grants. And this could influence who they vote for, come May 8’s..
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New study at Stellenbosch University will look at synthetic blood products for the resuscitation of trauma victims
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A large, multi-institutional clinical trial conducted by emergency medicine experts from Stellenbosch University (SU), in partnership with United States Department of Defence, will evaluate the use of synthetic blood products for the resuscitation of trauma victims before arrival at hospital.
The Division of Emergency Medicine at SU’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences will be the coordinating centre for the study, which includes 21 hospitals and 27 ambulance bases across South Africa. These include public and private academic institutions and healthcare facilities. For this study, SU is also partnering with the Universities of Cape Town (UCT), KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Witwatersrand (Wits) and Pretoria (UP), collectively representing the body of academic emergency medicine in South Africa.
The study will evaluate the use of the haemoglobin-based oxygen carrier Hemopure (HbO2 Therapeutics LLC) together with Bioplasma FDP (National Biologics Institute), a freez
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Obesity costs SA economy more than R700bn per year
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Johannesburg – The economic impact of obesity in South Africa is more than R700bn per year, a study revealed. According to the Discovery Vitality OBEcity index for 2017, which presents insights on weight status and food purchasing behavior of Vitality members across six South African cities, the impact of obesity is not only limited to..
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