Why traditional skills teaching is often a waste of time
You’ve just paid money for yet another certificate programme and are excited to learn something new. As you go through the introductory materials, you find that the course wants you to spend three to four hours a week on study over the next 12 weeks.
This doesn’t sound too bad, except you’ll need to take time away from your family to do it. You tell yourself: “This is an investment in me and it’s worth it.”
Later in the week, you’re sitting in front of your computer, staring at the enormous amount of information in front of you. There are beautifully presented words with vivid images and entertaining videos.
University leaders say governance risks imminent collapse
The idea that some United Kingdom higher education institutions are facing imminent collapse is not entirely new, but what makes Henley Business School’s latest ‘Universities Governance’ report stand out from the crowd is that many of the quotes supporting these claims come directly from university leaders themselves.
The report forms a small part of a two-year research programme conducted by a team of researchers at the school, who conducted in-depth interviews with 43 higher education leaders, exploring board governance and focused on the role of independent directors.
We asked a key question of senior figures: ‘How can independence be gained, sustained and lost?’
Transformation? Impossible if word remains undefined
A failure to define what ‘transformation’ means and how it may be measured is blocking prospects of broader change at South Africa’s public universities. In fact, the term is so “overladen with what may be called ‘surplus politics’ that it obscures, rather than clarifies, research and debate”, according to a number of the country’s leading higher education analysts and former planners.
The discourse around the concept, which was first popularised by anti-apartheid activists, has obscured the actual changes taking place within the system – such as the significant increase in the numbers of black students and academics at South Africa’s higher education institutions.
Professor Christof Heyns: A giant in human rights education
01 April 2021
The monumental contribution that Professor Christof Heyns has made to advance human rights in Africa and beyond emerged this week from a memorial Facebook page created to honour the former director of the Centre for Human Rights, which is part of the faculty of law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
The 62-year-old Heyns died on 29 March while on a hike near Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Heyns was the director of the Centre for Human Rights from 1999 to 2006, the dean of the faculty of law at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 2007 to 2010 and thereafter became the founding co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at UP.
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