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HEDSA appeals to vice-chancellors to prioritise the disability policy framework to enable its implementation
Disability units appear to be the only structures within universities that take the Strategic Policy Framework on Disability for the Post-School Education and Training System seriously. Ms...
Public universities’ poor performance on gender transformation targets must be penalised – two leaders suggest
The hearings that the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has conducted in the last ten years in the university sector indicate that the absence of...
A different approach to gender transformation could yield more favourable results, Dr Thandi Mgwebi suggests
The university sector should consider selling the benefits of transformation rather than force or impose change. Dr Thandi Mgwebi (left), Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and...
During Women’s Month 2021, USAf’s TMF and HERS-SA examine burning gender issues within Higher Education
August 2021 marks the beginning of a second round of a collaboration commemorating Women’s Month, between Universities South Africa’s Transformation Managers’ Forum (TMF) and Higher...
A meeting on decolonisation of pedagogy raises fierce debates among academics
A robust engagement around pedagogy in higher education institutions ensued on Friday, 30 October 2020, during the Transformation Managers' Forum (TMF) webinar. The session titled:...
Hunting down the elephant in the room: transformation and institutional culture
"The best way to stop a conversation about institutional culture is to attempt to get a shared definition of it." -- Prof André Keet The...