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HERS-SA is a self-sustaining non-profit organisation, dedicated to the advancement of women in the Higher Education sector. For the past eight years this small organisation has advocated for, and contributed to, the career development of women employed in academia via carefully crafted interventions including hosting the first national conference on Women in Leadership in Higher Education and the annual HERS-SA ACADEMY that attracts women from all over sub-Saharan Africa.

4- 5 November 2012 at UCT - I will be attending this:)

The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity projects.  This innovative concept was developed by the Animal Demography Unit. For many people, a "museum" is a place to see stuffed animals on display. But the ADU's Virtual Museum is not like this. The scientific part of a museum contains collections of specimens, frequently large numbers of specimens of the same species from different parts of the range, all carefully preserved and labelled with the date and place where they were collected. The ADU's Virtual Museum is like this, except that instead of specimens in draws or bottles, we have digital photographs arranged in a database.

Contribute to UCT Open Content like Kevin has - may also be a nice place to make Summer School podcasts available, like the great Texts/Big Questions series:)