Kim de Boer, South African SKA Project Office, Johannesburg

As part of its student recruitment efforts, the South African SKA project office produced a student recruitment poster for the MeerKAT project. The poster highlights the different skills and disciplines required for the science and engineering of building and operating a world-class radio telescope. The poster was distributed to all South African universities. Copies are available; contact kdeboer@ska.ac.za.

The annual South African SKA bursars' conference will take place from Monday 26 November 2007 to Friday 30 November 2007 at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. The conference is an important networking and training event at many levels. It brings together the SKA/MeerKAT bursary holders, supervisors, potential supervisors and astronomers in southern Africa to network with each other and develop a community around MeerKAT, SKA and other radio astronomy initiatives. It also provides an opportunity for the MeerKAT team to interact with the local astronomy community. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work to each other and the wider radio astronomy community.