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Jan Botha; Karen Webber; James Williams; Steve Woodfield – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Institutional Research associations across the world are re-imagining and redesigning their professional development and capacity building activities. This paper outlines the professional development activities of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) in the United States (est. 1966), the European Association for Institutional Research…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Institutional Research, Cooperation, Organizations (Groups)
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Letseka, Moeketsi; Pitsoe, Victor – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article debates access and success at the University of South Africa (UNISA). UNISA is an open distance learning (ODL) institution that provides higher education opportunities to working adults who would otherwise not have the opportunity to acquire a higher education qualification at full-time contact institutions. The article sketches the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Barriers, Debate
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Boshoff, N. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This article critically examines the methodology of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by generating raw scores for the "big five" South African research universities (Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Kwazulu-Natal, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand, henceforth referred to as SU, UCT, UKZN, UP and WITS) using the ARWU…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, Raw Scores
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Rouhani, Sepideh – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2007
During the past decade, there has been significant growth in the number of international students seeking access to South African higher education institutions. Concomitant with this growth has been a need for management of the internationalisation process at higher education institutions; however, this has not always been forthcoming. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, International Education, International Educational Exchange