What will Unisa do upon receiving your application? Unisa will assess your application to ensure that you meet the admission requirements and that you have uploaded all the compulsory supporting documents. If your application is complete, it will be referred to the relevant academic department, where a selection process will take place during January/February 2026. Applicants will be informed during the first week of March 2026 as to the outcome of their application. You can track the status of your application. You have 10 days from the date of application to upload your compulsory supporting documents (the 10 days does not apply after the closing date for applications). If your application is declined because it is incomplete (ie you did not upload all the supporting documents), you may re-apply for admission during the current application period and upload your compulsory supporting documents, provided that the application period is still open. Alternatively, you will need to wait for the next application period.
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Successful application: Unisa will confirm this via e-mail and will also provide you with the contact details of a specific member of staff, normally your supervisor, within the relevant academic department. Please remember to register during the prescribed registration period. Unsuccessful application: Unisa will inform you of this via e-mail and provide you with a reason why your application was unsuccessful. If your application for admission was unsuccessful because you did not meet the minimum admission requirements, you may apply for admission via Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), provided that you are 23 years of age or older with at least 5 years current and relevant work experience related to the qualification you wish to pursue. Prior learning should have been gained through one or more of the following means: research experience, workplace learning, information/non-formal learning, company/industry-based training, working with experts or life experience. How will Unisa contact me? If you are a first-time Unisa applicant and do not have a myLife e-mail address, Unisa will communicate with you via the e-mail address and cellphone number you provided during the application period. If you were previously registered with Unisa, Unisa will send the outcome of your application to your myLife e-mail account. Please check this e-mail account regularly for information. Unisa provides all registered students with a free myLife e-mail address. It is your responsibility to activate your myLife e-mail account as soon as your registration is finalised. Your myLife e-mail account will be the only e-mail account recognised by Unisa for official correspondence to and from the university, and will remain the official primary e-mail address on record at Unisa. Click here for Unisa’s rules for students.
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Can I use 7-Zip in a commercial organization? Yes, 7-Zip is free software. You can use it on any computer. How can I set file associations to 7-Zip in Windows 7 and Windows Vista? You must run 7-Zip File Manager in administrator mode. Right-click the icon of 7-Zip File Manager, and then click Run as administrator. Then you can change file associations and some other options. Why 7z archives created by new version of 7-Zip can be larger than archives created by old version of 7-Zip? New versions of 7-Zip (starting from version 15.06) use another file sorting order by default for solid 7z archives. Old version of 7-Zip (before version 15.06) used file sorting «by type» («by extension»). Parameters field in «Add to archive» window, (or -mqs switch for command line version). You can get big difference in compression ratio for different sorting methods, if dictionary size is smaller than total size of files.
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If there are similar files in different folders, the sorting «by type» can provide better compression ratio in some cases. Note that sorting «by type» has some drawbacks. For example, NTFS volumes use sorting order «by name», so if an archive uses another sorting, then the speed of some operations for files with unusual order can fall on HDD devices (HDDs have low speed for «seek» operations). Increase dictionary size. It can help when ‘qs’ is not used. Specify ‘qs’ in Parameters field (or use -mqs switch for command line version). If you think that unusual file order is not problem for you, and if better compression ratio with small dictionary is more important for you, use ‘qs’ mode. Why can’t 7-Zip open some ZIP archives? In 99% of these cases it means that the archive contains incorrect headers. Other ZIP programs can open some archives with incorrect headers, since these programs just ignore errors.
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If you have such archive, please don’t call the 7-Zip developers about it. Instead try to find the program that was used to create the archive and inform the developers of that program that their software is not ZIP-compatible. There are also some ZIP archives that were encoded with methods unsupported by 7-Zip, for example, WAVPack (WinZip). Why can’t 7-Zip open some RAR archives? 7-Zip 9.20 supports RAR 2/3/4 formats only and doesn’t support RAR5 archives. But latest versions of 7-Zip supports RAR5 archives. Why does drag-and-drop archive extraction from 7-Zip to Explorer use temp files? 7-Zip doesn’t know folder path of drop target. Only Windows Explorer knows exact drop target. And Windows Explorer needs files (drag source) as decompressed files on disk. So 7-Zip extracts files from archive to temp folder and then 7-Zip notifies Windows Explorer about paths of these temp files. Then Windows Explorer copies these files to drop target folder.
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