New fellowship programme, to bring researchers into government policymaking, launched  

The pilot phase of a joint programme of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), to bridge the gap between government and academia, was officially launched on Tuesday. Called the DSI-NRF Policy Placement Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, it is intended to allow excellent researchers and academics to contribute directly to government agencies and inform their policy-making processes. “This programme fills two very important gaps: one in which we …