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Download full textLamese Chetty; Brigitta Kepkey – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
In South Africa, many students enter university without the skills required for success in higher education. Extended curriculum programmes (ECP) were developed to provide students who showed potential but were underprepared with the necessary foundations to achieve success in higher education. Student support services are essential to student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Support Services, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness
Yolande Heymans; Courtney Strosnider; Jessica Pool; Marieta Jansen Van Vuuren – Open Praxis, 2024
Globalization and the call for global citizenship education have enabled virtual exchange to prepare healthcare students as emerging healthcare professionals for working in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world. Integrating virtual exchange opportunities into undergraduate curricula in higher education equips students with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes
Direct linkKleynhans, Carina; Roberson, Joseph; Nesamvuni, Alufheli; Masondo, Princess – Africa Education Review, 2021
Diversity influences students' learning experience and their ability to learn. Gender is one of the characteristics of student diversity that could affect students' attitudes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences manifest in men and women students' experience of collaborative learning. An existing questionnaire was used…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, College Students
Raisuyah Bhagwan; Lyrise Naidu – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Confronted by the disruption of work-integrated learning (WIL) placements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology experienced multiple academic and mental health challenges. This study highlights the impact the pandemic had on students from the Departments of Homeopathy,…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, COVID-19, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Maputle, Ms; Mthombeni, Cs – Cogent Education, 2022
Student accoucheurs were perceived to be uncomfortable conducting intimate clinical procedures, hence the struggle to attain the required clinical learning experiences when allocated in maternity wards. A qualitative explorative, descriptive, and contextual design was used. Five focus group discussions of midwives were purposively sampled. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Obstetrics, Males, Females
Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
Moosa, Moeniera; Rembach, Lauren – Perspectives in Education, 2018
Teaching practice is an important requirement to acquire a teaching qualification from South African universities. During teaching practice, it is customary for supervising teachers to guide and evaluate the students' performance. However, very little is known about how the interaction with supervising teachers influences the students' views about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Interaction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Sibiya, Anthony T.; Nyembezi, Nceba – Transformation in Higher Education, 2018
Background: This article seeks to examine factors that shape Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) engineering students' understanding of their future career choices. Moreover, given the promising and ambitious vision for growth in both TVET and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), as envisaged by the policy framework, White Paper on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Engineering Education, College Students
Alsemgeest, Liezel – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Communication about money is a social, cultural and psychological taboo and yet it is essential in the financial planning industry, as a financial planner cannot be effective if all information is not disclosed. This article examines how financial planning students perceive communication about money, their willingness to talk about it and their…
Descriptors: Money Management, Finance Occupations, Statistical Analysis, Financial Needs
du Preez, Michelle – South African Journal of Education, 2018
Prompted by the poor state of mathematics education in South Africa and the shortage of competent mathematics teachers, this study sought to identify what factors influenced 40 Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students at three universities in the Western Cape Province, with Mathematics as a major subject, to choose teaching as a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Occupational Aspiration
Zarestky, Jill; Ruyle, Leslie E. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
In northern Botswana, conflict between subsistence farmers and elephants can result in destroyed agricultural crops and death for both species. In June of 2016, students and faculty mentors from four universities traveled to the Okavango Delta region of Botswana to participate in a community education project designed to develop locally relevant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Animals, Agricultural Occupations
Hoadley, Susan; Tickle, Leonie; Wood, Leigh N.; Kyng, Tim – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
Graduates with well-developed capabilities in finance are invaluable to our society and in increasing demand. Universities face the challenge of designing finance programmes to develop these capabilities and the essential knowledge that underpins them. Our research responds to this challenge by identifying threshold concepts that are central to…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Finance Occupations, Online Surveys, Foreign Countries
Park, Thomas – South African Journal of Education, 2006
Any strategic plan to address the predicted shortage of teachers will have to include the promotion of the teaching profession as an attractive career. This will, however, depend largely on how successfully the campaign takes into account the favourable and less favourable opinions and perceptions of learners about the education system as a whole…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, High School Students
Peer reviewedCassimjee, R.; Brookes, H. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1998
A study investigated the concerns of 24 South African nursing students enrolled in a problem-centered, community-based training program. Results indicated most were not troubled by the problem-centered approach but were less positive about the community-based nature of the course. Most negative perceptions decreased over the three-month period of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anxiety, Attitude Change, College Students
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
