QUESTIONS, QUERIES, QUIBBLES AND QUARRELS

Questions, queries, quibbles and quarrels

The South African Qualifications Authority was promulgated by enabling legislation through the SAQA Act (59 of 1995).The mandate of SAQA is quite simply to establish and maintain the National Qualifications Framework or NQF.This is a structure derived after study and investigation of a number of similar systems internationally, especially in the US

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Research integrity in times of pandemic

In 1994, Douglas Graham Altman, one of the greatest statisticians of all here time, wrote "We need less research, better research, and research done for good reasons".Twenty-seven years ago, Altman pointed out that the system favored unscientific behavior and that "bad science" was easy to publish, highlighting the financial implications of this am

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Yield and quality responses of drip-irrigated spinach to different irrigation quantities in a semi-arid region with a high altitude

The effect of different irrigation quantities on the growth, marketable yield, crop quality (antioxidant activity, mineral and total phenolic content) and irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) of spinach grown in a semi-arid region of high altitude (1795 m a.s.l.) was determined.Plants were irrigated with three different irrigation quantities whic

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