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The University Wits, on leaving their universities faced the Elizabethan problem discussed by Francis Bacon in his essay, "Of Seditions and Troubles" — schools were producing more scholars than there were opportunities. The University Wits found employment in theatre, not their first choice, but there was little else for them.
Christine Isabel Hofmeyr (born 1953) is a South African academic who specialises in literary studies and literary history.She is professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she became a professor of African literature in 1994.
This category contains late 16th century English playwrights commonly seen by scholars as belonging to the group known as the University Wits, most having been educated at the English universities (Oxford and Cambridge).
The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) was launched in 2014 and is based in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). [1] Initially started as Intercultural and Diversity Studies of Southern Africa (iNCUDISA) at the University of Cape Town, [2] WiCDS was then established at Wits in 2014 and aims to build capacity to meet the challenges of diverse societies ...
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (/ v ə t ˈ v ɑː t ə s r ɑː n t /), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in ...
Ruksana Osman is Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] Before then, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also the former Head of the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
[68] [69] Similarly, the investment in student education by each college at the university varies widely between the colleges. [70] Cambridge has 31 colleges, two of which, Murray Edwards and Newnham, admit women only. The other colleges are mixed. Darwin was the first college to admit both men and women.
The Oxford Wits, a term coined later, were an identifiable group of literary and intellectual aesthetes and dandies, present as undergraduates at the University of Oxford in England in the first half of the 1920s. Their leader in fashion was Harold Acton, but their later leader in intellectual matters was more noticeably Maurice Bowra.