The Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA), through its Student Learning Project Team, invites applications for student representation on the national HELTASA Student Forum. The Forum will aim to represent students from South African higher education institutions, who are actively involved in peer leaderships activities.

The Forum aims to create a platform that would:

• Enable critical dialogue about the South African higher education student experience.
• Stimulate opportunities for student agency to be activated, enhanced, and practiced.
• Engage with the HELTASA values and principles to foreground student presence, voice, and to advance knowledge and practice.
• Provide the opportunity for students, academic development practitioners, and academic staff to collaborate to ensure that the sector is systemically addressing student needs.
• Negotiate guidelines to formalise student presence and voice.

While the Student Learning Project Team will facilitate and coordinate the process, the Forum is designed to be student led and will require dynamic members who take responsibility for developing and sustaining the Forum as a community of practice within HELTASA. Forum members will also be responsible for succession planning and selected members will hold their roles for a period of one year.

How to get involved

Students wishing to be part of the Forum must apply using this link: https://forms.gle/gkP8kQahzeJ2JJ778

Applications must include the following (PDF only):

1. A motivation letter outlining why you are applying (make sure to highlight your student/peer leadership experience at a university, whether present or past)
2. An abridged CV (no more than two pages)
3. A recommendation letter(s) from a staff member in the university where you study (e.g., a programme coordinator/tutor coordinator/peer advisor coordinator/lecturer)

Only complete applications will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you.

The HELTASA Student Learning Project Team.

For queries, please contact the Student Learning Project Team at this email address: sslp.heltasa@gmail.com