Best South African Restaurants (According To Eat Out Magazine)
Best South African Restaurants (According To Eat Out Magazine) We understand that there are a lot of Food & Beverage Management, Food Service Management as well as Tourism & Hospitality researchers studying at VUT, so we thought this’d be a little interesting for ya’ll! If you want to sample flavours from the best restaurants in South Africa, here’s a few of last year’s category winners according to Eat Out Magazine and Mercedes Benz South Africa. Maybe you can grab a few tips from how they plate up, style or manage their restaurants. Restaurant of the Year Cape Town seems to be the foodie capital of South Africa, but that’s no surprise considering the amazing restaurants that dot the Mother City and the Winelands. [...]
How To Be A Confident Researcher
How To Be A Confident Researcher Confidence is never really taught to any of us. It is always assumed that we know how to be confident. Before walking into an interview for a new position or walking into a test venue to write an exam, we’re always told by our peers and mentors “be confident”. Unfortunately, there is no easy way of becoming a more confident person. Confidence is definitely a result of years of morale-affecting circumstances and situations that either make a person more positive about a situation, and therefore more likely to expose these emotions to the people around them, or increasingly negative. Our definition of confidence is that it is a positive mood development that occurs when someone knows that [...]
Space Travel In The Next Decade
Space Travel In The Next Decade Space travel has been predicted to really kick off in the coming years as governments and important role players start to visualise the importance of settling on other planets and mining on distant asteroids. The belief is that in the next decade we will start seeing private commercial interests move toward the vastness of space because of the presence of rare and important minerals on asteroids that circle the earth and the solar system. The next ten years are made even more important because of promises that NASA and many other privately funded space programs have made regarding their intent to land on the red planet; Mars. A renewed interest in the ‘Space Race’, this time to [...]
How To Be An Empowering Manager
How to be an empowering manager Not everyone can run a business, or at least manage a particular division within an organisation. But if you’re reading this you’re most likely a student (who is standing in good stead to attain a management position in future) or even a business management student (who will most definitely manage employees and be responsible for company assets in future), and will therefore require the skills necessary to be an empowering manager. All managers who are good at their jobs are likely to empower both themselves and their staff. Luckily, this skill can be learned and improved. Here’s a few steps you can take as a future manager to become empowering. The first job is creating an environment [...]
How IT Can Ease Traffic Congestion
How IT Can Ease Traffic Congestion Birmingham University IT researchers have designed a novel system to predict traffic congestion, and the results are impressive, but not surprising. The United Kingdom, much like South Africa, suffers from extreme traffic congestion in inner city areas during rush hours, costing those in transit huge sums of money in both time and fuel. IT researchers at Birmingham University took it upon themselves to collect large volumes of data regarding inner city traffic. The data was collected in a few first-world metropolitan centres such as Boston, Rio de Janeiro, and Porto. How was the data collected? Through the access to mobile phone data, pinpointing commuters’ locations and the directions in which they travel. The data would tell them [...]
What Makes a Great Creative Director?
What makes a great creative director? Many students at VUT are lucky enough to be studying a research degree in the arts. From Hospitality to Multimedia we offer a number of courses that gets researchers’ creative juices flowing. Many students of the arts will enter the field expecting to create, invent and discover, helping businesses achieve in the way of new grounds and development. However, through years of experience, some will become Creative Directors. This position involves overseeing the creative process from start to finish in any number of fields where a creative collaboration of people is necessary for the end product. The job requires hard work, inventiveness, a keen eye for innovation and the ability to carry projects forward from start [...]
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