Quote of the week
The main hall was barely half-full when Matt Hancock arrived on stage to give his conference speech and even emptier by the time he had finished. Under the circumstances, a kindness to everyone involved. Not least the health secretary himself. The past 24 hours have not been kind to Hancock. The Man-Boy has built his entire life on never taking a position he can’t later reverse. Often within weeks, if not days. But now he had finally made the potentially career-ending mistake of saying he believed Charlotte Edwardes to be an entirely reliable witness, without first considering the prime minister’s exemplary record with women.
The Guardian
LLM scholarships at UCT: 2017
Claude Leon Foundation Scholarships in Constitutional Governance 2017
2 LLM scholarships (R80 000 each for 2017)
Prof Pierre de Vos, the Claude Leon Chair in Constitutional Governance at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, invites suitably qualified applicants to submit applications for the above post-graduate scholarships. The successful applicants will preferably be South African citizens (although non-South African citizens from the rest of the continent would be awarded the scholarship in exceptional circumstances) who plan to embark on Master’s degree by dissertation in 2017 in the fields of South African or comparative Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law or other legal and political questions relating to constitutional governance, constitutionalism, rights discourse or the promotion of social justice – including topics that require interdisciplinary research. The dissertations will be supervised by the Chair in Constitutional Governance.
- The successful applicants will have an excellent academic record. In making the selection, the selection panel will strive to select a cohort of recipients broadly representative of South Africa’s racial and gender composition.
- The scholarship will be awarded for a period of one year;
- The selected scholars will be required to provide reasonable research assistance to the Chair in Constitutional Governance; and
- The selected scholars will be expected to live in Cape Town or surroundings to be reasonably present at the University of Cape Town.
For further information contact: pierre.devos@uct.ac.za or 021 6503079.
Applicants must send a covering letter providing motivation for the application, accompanied by a full curriculum vitae with the names and contact details of three referees, all available undergraduate degree transcripts and a short (no more than one page) proposal indicating the possible topic of the post-graduate research to: pierre.devos@uct.ac.za by no later than 24 June 2016.
