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Research Report: Student-centred universities

The study that Universities South Africa’s (USAf’s) Transformation Strategy Group (TSG) embarked upon from 2020, titled Reshaping Universities to Create a Student-Centred Higher Education System in South Africa, has borne...

Guidelines document: Student-centred universities

The Framework for a Student-centred Higher Education System is accompanied by a set of guidelines (i.e. Student-centred Guidelines) at universities’ disposal, when operationalising the Framework and customising it for implementation. Institutions are...

PowerPoint presentation: Student-centred universities

This PowerPoint presentation summarises the Reshaping Universities to Create a Student-centred Higher Education System in South Africa study report; from conceptualisation, the study phases, the methodology it employed and...

Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions Determined in Terms of Section 27(2) of the Higher Education Act 101 of 1997 as Amended

This is the policy instrument that the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation gazetted in October 2020, to provide a framework for the development and strengthening of indigenous...

Higher Education Conference 2021 Report

The 2nd Higher Education Conference of 2021 enabled genuine contemplation of the transformation required of universities, for them to realise The Engaged University ideal. Read more

Higher Education in the melting pot: Emerging discourses of the 4IR and Decolonisation

Out of the deliberations of a September 2019 colloquium of the Education Deans Forum, where the deans explored the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its implications, particularly for teacher...

The SEP-TLF Study Report Shines a Spotlight on Academic Staff Experiences during the Pandemic

The long-awaited study that was exploring Staff Experiences of, and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and its Future (SEP-TLF) has been concluded. This study, a joint project of the...

Guidelines for Universities to follow Regarding Work Integrated Learning in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Following the hard (Level 5) lockdown in 2020, Universities SA’s Work Strategy Group conducted a study in collaboration with the Council on Higher Education and the Department of Higher...

Students’ Access to and Use of Learning Materials

A study completed by the University of the Free State’s Centre for Teaching and Learning has brought to the surface, students’ experiences of emergency remote teaching and learning during...

USAf has adopted a Code of Conduct re: POPIA as a guide to universities

In the quest to prepare and enable its member institutions to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), Universities South Africa compiled a Code of Conduct for...

South Africa’s universities’ visit to China: 14-24 October 2019

A 12-person delegation of South Africa’s universities visited China’s top five universities in October 2019, to explore building a collaborative relationship between universities of the two countries — that...

South Africa’s Scholarly Presses; Essential to the knowledge enterprise

Notwithstanding the significant contribution of scholarly publishers to knowledge production nationally and globally, changes taking place in the world of publishing – including digitisation; the rise of social media...

Scholarly Presses in South Africa; how sustainable are they?

Late during 2018, the CEO of Universities South Africa commissioned a study of South Africa’s scholarly presses. The purpose was to generate an understanding on how the scholarly presses...

What we’re learning about our university students

The three-part series of publications titled Understanding Students — published in March, October and November, 2018, shares findings from a set of surveys of students, and to an extent,...

Challenges from the re-absorption of outsourced services call for increased introspection and information sharing for the sustainability of universities

As universities consider and adopt the different approaches to insourcing in response to union and student demands and also for delivery of social justice, it is evident that insourcing...

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