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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"African Universities"”.
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Transportation aspects of Southern African universities. Volume2
… by K.C.Wall "Transportation Aspects of Southern African Universities", to Deportment of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town. October 1971.
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Participative decision making (PDM) at South African universities
… of participative decision making (POM) at South African universities. The first aim was to investigate the extent to which these institutions practice participative decision making. The second aim was to establish whether certain managers' characteristics influence the practice of participative …
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Student financial aid at South African universities and technikons
… the current status of student financial aid at universities and technikons; (2) highlight implications for the NSFAS; and (3) consider the future role of institution-based schemes. The paper begins by drawing lessons from a selection of international literature. The main body of the text is …
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Libraries and academic development strategies in South African universities
This dissertation examines the role of university libraries in academic support and development programmes in South Africa. It focuses on how libraries and librarians can assist under-prepared students whose educational backgrounds under apartheid have not equipped them for the transition from …
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Integration of e-learning systems into academic programmes in South African universities
… usage of a C/LMS among lecturers in South African universities. The goal was to empower curriculum planners, educators, policy makers, learners, system administrators and developers, with insight to improve e-Learning activities, and to make conceptual and theoretical contributions to the …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
… from student movements across the South African higher education landscape, decolonisation, as an intellectual project, remains a popular emancipatory framework within universities, disciplinary communities, scholarly networks globally and in South African higher education. In South …
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The place of cataloguing and classification in the curricula of South African universities
… and information science curricula of South African universities today, and to determine whether, in compiling the syllabus comprising bibliographic description and subject analysis, new developments and changes are being taken into consideration. With this in mind, attention has been given …
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Software Support for Podcasting Mobile Lecture Content for Education in Sub-Sahara African Universities
Podcasting is fast gaining traction in developing regions as a means to augment classroom instruction. Commercial podcasting tools such as Apple’s Leopard Server, Tele-task and OpenEya, despite being successfully used in the developed world (where Internet connections are fast and students have …
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Accessibility of academic libraries for students living with disabilities in selected South African Universities
… with disabilities (SWDs) in selected South African universities. Academic libraries are central to higher education, yet systemic, physical and technological barriers often hinder access for students with mobility and visual impairments. The study investigated how academic libraries …
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Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
… who did not belong to the leadership band of universities, from six universities participated in the study. The findings revealed that South African university leaders are not adequately trained to lead during crises, and that leadership-enhancement programmes need to be developed to include …
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Black Students on White Campuses: Responses to Increasing Black Enrollments at Two South African Universities
This study employs a multi-method approach encompassing three techniques: a review of policy documents; administration of survey questionnaires among academic staff and students; and direct interviews with a select group of university administrators, academics and student leaders.
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The development of a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) curriculum change management model for South African universities
… the dire need for LLB curriculum change at South African universities. Not only did the Review call for ‘wideranging curriculum reform', but it also recommended that the minimum duration of the four-year LLB be extended by an additional year. Most institutions responded with minor changes to their …
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Mobilizing Higher Education for Development in Africa: A Case Study of the Association of African Universities
… Selvaratnam, 1988; Teferra & Altbach, 2004). African higher education has been particularly sensitive to these obstacles, due to the consequences of colonialism, globalization and neocolonialism, and efforts to combat these impediments to development have often been undermined by scarcity at …
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Sepedi or Sesotho sa Leboa: A sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from selected South African Universities.
… first language speakers from two selected South African universities, a university of technology in Pretoria (A) and a full-time university in Limpopo (B) ). The researcher endevoured to explore the Northern Sotho language name discrepancies in informative and descriptive documents such as study …
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Indigenization of the music curriculum through Maskandi as a learning programme in two selected South African universities
Student population in most African universities is predominantly black Africans, but the curricula at most of these universities is still dominated by Western epistemologies and knowledge instead of being dealt with in combination with indigenous knowledge. This study aimed to investigate and …
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Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
… women at three selected Historically Black Universities (HBUs). Although based predominantly within a feminist qualitative metholodogical framework, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used in this study. Based on the findings of the study, the recommendations illustrated …
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
… sources in South Africa today such as the South African History Online (a widely recommended archive) and the Publica[c]tion archive (2017) respectively to cover and unpack the activist nature of students against the state in different eras. This includes contextual situations, similarities and …
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Crisis management at South African universities: A case of the University of Cape Town crisis management strategies
In recent years, crises have become frequent in society, affecting individuals, organisations, and institutions. Traditionally, higher education institutions were regarded as protected spaces. However, with the rising cost of tuition that significantly affects students from less privileged …
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