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Mignonne Breier is a former journalist, lecturer and researcher. At the University of Cape Town, the University of the  Western Cape and the Human Sciences Research Council she specialised in research on adult and higher education including adult literacy, student drop out and poverty, recognition of prior learning and professional education.  She  published extensively on these topics before  joining the Research Office at UCT to run researcher-development programmes. She is the author of the 2013 Letters to My Son and  has also had poetry and short stories published.