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Thomson, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This article is contextualised within the field of post-graduate, continuing teacher education in South Africa, through an essentially "distanced", that is, part-time, mixed-mode teaching and learning model. It draws on a broader phenomenological research study into the experiences of students taking a one semester module, "Reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Experience, Phenomenology
Uys, P. G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This study interrogated the central theoretical statement that understanding and learning to apply the abstract concept of classical dramatic narrative structure can be addressed effectively through a useful audiovisual teaching method. The purpose of the study was to design an effective DVD teaching and learning aid, to justify the design through…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Video Technology, Scripts, Film Study
Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In this article I offer a defence of cosmopolitanism as an enabling condition for university education in Africa. Recent xenophobic outbursts in South Africa suggests that the enactment of defensible virtues in societies remain distant from the practices of many people. My contention is that university education ought to take seriously the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Death, Criticism, Educational Change
Blunt, R. J. S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This investigation elicited the perceptions of thirteen of the most successful research supervisors from one university, with a view to identifying their approaches to selecting research candidates. The supervisors were identified by the university's research office using the single criterion of having the largest number of completed research…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Supervisors, Supervisory Methods
Chireshe, R.; Shumba, A.; Mudhovozi, P.; Denhere, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
The study explored university students' perceptions of attributions to success or failure. A random cross-sectional survey design was employed. Seventy-two students (male = 44, female = 28) were randomly selected from the student population of a state university of age ranges 20 to 49 years. The data, collected using a self-administered…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Age Differences, College Students, Academic Achievement
Gbadamosi, G.; de Jager, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Tertiary institutions play a major role in providing relevant education that best meets the needs of the various constituencies served; and an assessment of factors that influence students' choices and satisfaction is thus useful. This article examines the gap between students' perceived experience and the importance they hold of service delivery,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Satisfaction, Universities
Geber, H.; Nyanjom, J. A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Mentor development in higher education in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Botswana is explored in this article. Changes in education policy require mentors to engage in individual as well as organisational change and transformation. Most studies focus on mentee development and the resulting organisational change but there is very little…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Action Research, Focus Groups
Geertsema, J. C.; van Niekerk, F. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Universities worldwide experience continual change in order to achieve what is perceived as improvement. In these changes, there is usually an emphasis on the research function of a university, and the literature contains a number of themes in this regard. We contribute by presenting a detailed case study of a non-research-intensive university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Organizational Change, Educational Improvement
Naidoo, B.; Devnarain, B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
The decline in civic participation, dwindling support for social services and deficits in state budgets, has created a climate in which higher education, supported by several policies, has to make a commitment to contribute to the reconstruction and development of society by linking academic programmes to community-based priorities (Campbell…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education
Nel, C.; Kistner, L. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In the light of the uncertainty surrounding the new National Senior Certificate that was written in South African schools for the first time in 2008, this article aims to examine the new Grade 12 National Senior Certificate results quantitatively in the context of the Grade 11 application score for entry into higher education and the Grade 12…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Grade 12, Grade 11, Academic Ability
Nel, C.; Troskie-de Bruin, C.; Bitzer, E. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
A successful transition from school to university is crucial to academic success--especially in the first academic year. Various studies have, however, shown that students are increasingly underprepared for higher education studies. Not only is the school-university gap increased by the school system that produces inadequately prepared learners…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Transitional Programs, College Bound Students
Schulze, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This article discusses an investigation conducted to identify challenges associated with teaching research methods in a distance education context. Constructivist learning was used as conceptual framework, in particular socio-constructivist theories, activity theory and Rich environments for active learning (REALs). Two research modules in a…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Investigations, Action Research, Distance Education
Smith, L. C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This study uses statistical analysis to estimate the impact of first-year academic development courses in microeconomics, statistics, accountancy, and information systems, offered by the University of Cape Town's Commerce Academic Development Programme, on students' graduation performance relative to that achieved by mainstream students. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis, Graduation
Tait, M.; de Jager, J. W. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Over the past decade the educational environment has not only become more competitive but also more commercialised. These trends have contributed to the introduction of service quality measurement at higher education institutions. Traditionally institutions assume that students have relatively homogeneous needs and expectations and the result is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Marketing, Educational Environment
Carl, A. E. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
It is essential for teacher training institutions to reflect continually on changes in education policy with the view of ensuring that teacher training programmes that take the present needs and policies into account are in place. This article describes a four-year process through which a particular faculty of education went in search of an…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs