Universities South Africa
Inaugural National Higher Education Conference 2019
Teacher training programmes must respond to South Africa’s national priorities
The quality of South Africa’s teacher training programmes came under scrutiny during a high-level discussion convened by the national Department of Basic Education with education...
Using Digital Art to teach Mathematics: a practical, fun, innovative way of teaching Mathematics
A novel initiative to empower township learners with algorithmic thinking and digital art – even traditional African fabric shweshwe is being used as a teaching...
A DHET chief director applauds six years of entrepreneurial innovation at students’ intervarsity award ceremony
The EDHE programme represents an important contribution to transformation in Higher Education in terms of growing studentpreneurship, developing an entrepreneurial mindset in academics across disciplines...
New French partnership with USAf calls for AI and Blue Ocean Tech researchers
The Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme is going international through the French Embassy in South Africa. These were the introductory words of Dr...
Drug re-invention wins young pharmacist R100 000 and Studentpreneur of 2024 title
“I hate death. I want to save our people.” These words have driven the overall winner of the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2024, 28-year-old Emmanuel Kiyonga,...
The EDHE Intervarsity national finals event draws a prestigious high level crowd
The Director: Entrepreneurship, Universities South Africa (USAf), Dr Edwell Gumbo, began his opening address by naming those on the guestlist that included vice-chancellors, their deputies,...
System-wide collaboration and partnerships are the way to capacitating early career academics
The fourth plenary at Universities South Africa's Higher Education conference, titled Generating talent: transforming support for the research landscape in South Africa, was different to...
Entrepreneurship has taken root at numerous institutions with impressive results; however, universities still need to do far more
The question of graduates' readiness for the world of work took centre-stage at the recent National Higher Education Conference. Questions arose on: What attributes do...
Giant leaps for mankind – South African universities must stop being shy and move from research to entrepreneurial success
The session titled Imagining the exponential and entrepreneurial university of the 21st century at University South Africa's recent national higher education conference scored top marks...
Five speakers and five different views on which principles should drive the design for social justice in universities
The session on transformation by design at Universities South Africa's recent conference on higher education got off to an unexpected start. The title of the...
Ethics in research publishing has become a hotbed of concern for academics and institutions
One of the first sessions on the opening day of Universities South Africa's recent Higher Education conference addressed the gravity and extent of unethical research,...
It is all about the kind of university we want for the kind of society we want
The presentation by Professor Peter Maassen, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oslo, on the role of universities in society provided an international...
There are many ways of remaking a university but they all relate to the society in which it exists
Perhaps the topic was complex; or we could put it down to the panellists' need to talk about all aspects of transformation; but the session...
Learning through doing is the gold standard
Mr Gideon Potgieter proudly began his presentation with a picture of a beaming young man standing in front of a row of computer numeric controlled...