The continuous professional learning of academics as university teachers is a national imperative in South Africa. At our university, Postgraduate Diploma Education (Higher Education) was introduced 2015 with the aim to professionalise teaching through formal qualification. Students (i.e., candidates) must transition two ways: firstly, from being disciplinary specialists students again; and sec...

Normal human epidermis, long since dismissed as merely a protective covering for the body, is now recognized as a complex immunological unit . This concept is based on the demonstration that Langerhans cells (LCs)t are potent APCs for a variety of T cell (TC) responses and that keratinocytes (KC), at least upon stimulation, can secrete a plethora of immunomodulating cytokines (reviewed in refer...

Frans van Winden presents a quick introduction to the dynamic ‘dual process’ model of social ties, which was developed by van Winden and colleagues in various publications during the last 20 years. Drawing on evidence from economics and psychology, van Winden argues that preferences are determined by different mixtures of emotional/subcortical and cognitive/neocortical brain activity, with the ...