by AMC Admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Higher Education, News
Welcome to the first HE Watch of 2019. Since the mid 1980s, ‘critical’ voices in the field of South African Academic Development have argued for wide-scale institutional change, involving staff and curriculum development, in order to address students’ negative...
by AMC Admin | Nov 28, 2018 | Conferences, Higher Education, News
Associate Professor Lynn Quinn Lynn Quinn is an associate professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University in South Africa. She has been involved in the field of Academic Development since 1995. In the early...
by AMC Admin | Oct 26, 2018 | Higher Education, News
New Public Management The August HE Watch focused on workshops offered by Professor Johann Mouton and his colleagues at the University of Stellenbosch in order to enhance the monitoring and evaluation of University Capacity Development Grants (UCDGs). In the...
by AMC Admin | Sep 26, 2018 | Higher Education, News, Uncategorized
Large scale research study on use of National Benchmark Tests (NBTs) The use of forms of testing alternative to the school leaving examination has a long history in South Africa given that disparities in the quality of schooling mean that not all learners have a fair...
by AMC Admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Higher Education, News
Higher Education Watch In this new section, we aim to keep you up to date with developments in the sector. Many AD practitioners are not aware of developments at a national level even though these might affect them and the work they are trying to do. HELTASA...
