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Study reveals an urgent need for coherence in the curriculum reform efforts of SA’s universities
How is curriculum transformation conceptualised and implemented across South Africa’s public universities? Is there a common understanding of what curriculum transformation is and why it’s...
Decoloniality, language and student voice must shape curriculum change, senior academics say
Curriculum transformation cannot be reduced to policy compliance, reporting templates or sector-wide checklists. It demands honest confrontation with power, politics, teaching and learning practices, and...
Curriculum transformation must reflect context, challenge power and be inclusively consultative
For universities to drive meaningful curriculum transformation, they must operate with clarity, intentionality and a willingness to engage directly with entrenched power structures. This was a...
The CHE calls for sector-wide ownership of curriculum transformation that moves beyond compliance
Higher education institutions must take full ownership of curriculum transformation and help shape a forward-looking standard that surpasses compliance. This was the call from the...
Will there be a need for universities in future, or not?
Two presentations at the breakaway session of Universities South Africa’s (USAf’s) Teaching and Learning (T&L) Strategy Group triggered an informative discussion at the recent 3rd...
Challenging established rules is the way forward for teaching and learning at universities
A university is a space for challenging established ideas and engaging in open-ended inquiry, where students and faculty alike are encouraged to question, reflect, and...
The future of teaching and learning: a perspective from the African continent
“We asked our former students how much of the content that we taught them they used in their current work lives. One very prosperous student...
Unsettling paradigms; the quest for inclusive and democratised knowledge
From a scholarly project commenced in 2017, four academics had come together to share insights emerging from on-going research projects investigating what to change, how...
Unsettling paradigms; the quest for inclusive and democratised knowledge
She revolutionised the teaching of Instrumental Music Studies at Rhodes University by substituting western musical instruments for indigenous African performance practice. In just three years,...
Curriculum transformation:
At its first meeting of the year in 2016, the TLSG identified curriculum transformation as a strategic issue for discussion. Under the theme: “Curriculum transformation in...
Teaching and learning technologies:
It was reported at the TLSG meeting on 30 May 2017 that there is a significant move by publishers towards the development of custom digital publications,...
Teaching and Learning Strategy Group
Enhancing the student experience at public universities: Following an indication by the TLSG, that enhancing students’ learning experiences was not receiving adequate attention through the Quality...