{"id":50,"date":"2014-08-12T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=50"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:58","slug":"cardiff-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2014\/08\/12\/cardiff-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les Phillips, a Cardiff alumnus and Fellow of\u00a0the University who is living in Johannesburg,\u00a0sent us this update from a recent event:<\/p>\n<p>On 9 August, at the annual\u00a0conference of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Johannesburg, attended by\u00a0over 500 doctors, nurses and other medical\u00a0practitioners, a graduation ceremony was\u00a0held for those who had completed the\u00a0Masters and Diploma courses in Diabetes\u00a0by distance learning from Cardiff University.\u00a0Professor David Owens, from the Institute\u00a0of Molecular and Experimental Medicine\u00a0at the University\u2019s School of Medicine,\u00a0conducted the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>A number of those present were Cardiff alumni and I met with them the previous\u00a0evening to discuss the formation of a Cardiff\u00a0University Alumni Chapter in South Africa.\u00a0Over 20 have now signed up to forming\u00a0a Chapter and I hope that I will be able\u00a0to contact more alumni over the next few\u00a0months, so that branches of the Chapter can\u00a0be started in Johannesburg, Kwa Zulu Natal\u00a0and Cape Town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you live in South Africa and would\u00a0like to join this association, please contact\u00a0Les on<a href=\"mailto:elmaandles@worldonline.co.za\"> elmaandles@worldonline.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 9 August, at the annual conference of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology in Johannesburg, a graduation ceremony was held for those who had completed the Master's and Diploma courses in Diabetes by distance learning from Cardiff University.","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}