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Direct linkNudelman, Gabrielle – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Employability development is a focus of contemporary engineering education, both abroad and in South Africa, from where this study emanates. However, pedagogic initiatives in service of this goal may fail to take into consideration the ideological underpinnings of this emphasis on employability, as well as of the curricula developed in its…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Employment Potential
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2021
The fundamental study of physics has played a crucial role in helping to understand natural phenomena and biological processes throughout history. However, physics as a discipline has not advanced at an equal pace around the globe. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), physics research faces major challenges including gaps in human capital, infrastructural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Partnerships in Education, International Cooperation
Chitakunye, Pepukayi; Takhar-Lail, Amandeep – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
This study contributes to existing methodological knowledge by showing how a transformed research methods curriculum, which is beyond the milieu of schooling, can engage postgraduate students in a critical dialogue on how knowledge is produced in industry and higher education. Initial insights are drawn from two interpretive studies that employed…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Curriculum, Graduate Study, Research Methodology
Download full textAmadi-Echendu, Anthea P.; Phillips, Magaret; Chodokufa, Kudakwashe; Visser, Thea – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
South Africa is characterised by high unemployment levels, a low Total Early Stage Entrepreneurial Activity rate, and a high small business failure rate. Entrepreneurship and small business development is seen as a solution to end unemployment in South Africa. A study to understand how to improve small business support was conducted at the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Unemployment, Higher Education, Small Businesses
Grundling, J. P.; Steynberg, L. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This article first identifies the principal forces that impact on and shape entrepreneurially-oriented higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, and then analyses the degree to which those institutions have succeeded in becoming entrepreneurial. The results reveal that South Africa's HEIs are still in the initial phases of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Developing Nations
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
