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Direct linkCase, Jennifer M.; Heydenrych, Hilton; Kotta, Linda; Marshall, Delia; McKenna, Sioux; Williams, Kevin – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation
Chaka, Chaka; Lephalala, Mirriam; Ngesi, Nandipha – Perspectives in Education, 2017
This paper reports on a desktop review study of undergraduate and postgraduate English studies (both English literature and English language) module offerings (n = 48) of 24 English departments at 17 South African higher education institutions (HEIs) conducted in 2017. The review focused on the presence and purpose of the term, decolonisation, in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Foreign Policy, English Departments
Paxton, Moragh – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
The study described in this article sets out to understand the barriers and affordances to successful completion of the short research thesis required in many advanced undergraduate courses or Honours programmes. In the study, the genre features of students' research projects and the criteria used to assess them were analysed and both students and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Undergraduate Study, Interviews
Jawitz, Jeff – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper explores the use of situated cognition theory to investigate how new academics learn to judge complex student performance in an academic department at a South African university. The analysis revealed the existence of two largely separate communities of practice within the department, one centred on the provision of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Constructivism (Learning), Student Evaluation, Epistemology
Boersma, F. K.; Reinecke, C. J.; Gibbons, M. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
A major requirement for transformation contained in the new education policy in South Africa is that the graduate outputs of the higher education system should match the needs of a modernizing economy. This paper addresses the organizational aspect of university-industry relationships that is an element of the transformation. In empirical terms,…
Descriptors: Industry, Information Science, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Winberg, S. L.; Schach, S. R.; Inggs, M. R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
The use of effective knowledge management is becoming an essential part of technical development projects in order to enable developers to handle the growing complexity of these projects. In this article we discuss an innovative approach to address this concern from the perspective of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. Instead of adding…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Educational Strategies
Walker, Melanie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This paper proposes a human capabilities approach for evaluating student learning and the social and pedagogical arrangements that support equality in capabilities for all students. It outlines the focus on valuable beings and doings in the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen, and Martha Nussbaum's capabilities focus on human flourishing.…
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Learning Processes, Student Evaluation, Social Influences
Download full textKommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Sharef, Nurfadhlina Mohd, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference on Educational Technologies 2013 (ICEduTech 2013), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites
Pretorius, Rudi W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2004
The department of geography and environmental studies of the University of South Africa recently played a pivotal role in implementing an inter- and multidisciplinary undergraduate programme in environmental management. This programme prepares students for entry-level occupations, and equips them with the knowledge, skills and values needed to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Environmental Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
