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Las Vegas in Africa (2005)
Journal Article
Hall, M., & Bombardella, P. (2005). Las Vegas in Africa. Journal of Social Archaeology, 5(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605305050141

Recent years have seen substantial capital investments in 'destination resorts', manyof which utilize heritage themes to attract consumers. This movement was led by the renaissance of Las Vegas and by major urban destination project, and coincided wi... Read More about Las Vegas in Africa.

South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy (2005)
Journal Article
Hall, M., & Symes, A. (2005). South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy. Studies in Higher Education, 30(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070500043317

This paper tracks policies in the governance of higher education over the first decade of South Africa's democracy. The first democratically elected government of 1994 was faced with the formidable task of dismantling the structures of apartheid educ... Read More about South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy.

Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen (2005)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2005). Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen

Academic freedom and institutional autonomy are often assumed to be synonymous. In some debates about higher education in South Africa, this assumption has led to the supposition that universities are less autonomous – and therefore less free – than... Read More about Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen.

The virtual society (2005)
Journal Article
Morris, H. (2005). The virtual society. British Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 676-677

Are we equipped for wearables? (2005)
Journal Article
Power, E. (2005). Are we equipped for wearables?. Textile Asia, 36(11), 74-78

A collaborative project, which emphasized on the value of cross-discipline collaboration within the higher education curriculum in the areas of fashion, wearable computing, and electronics, is described. The project ran for a period of 10 weeks, unde... Read More about Are we equipped for wearables?.