From Higher Education Reform Experts South Africa (HERESA) to HERE – Africa It is a pleasure to share with you the Outcomes Report generated from the Higher Education Reform Experts – South Africa (HERESA) Dissemination, Synergy and Sustainability Event. Importantly, this outcomes report captures our collective decision to take HERESA into its next phase. Thank…
Higher Education Reform Experts South Africa (HERESA), a three-year pilot that will come to an end in November, was “a success with tangible impact”, project coordinator Dr Sershen Naidoo told University World News at the end of the initiative’s final workshop in Johannesburg from 2-4 October. Desmond Thompson (University World News), chatted with Dr Sershen…
“The need to strengthen the capacity of leaders in higher education so that they can drive much-needed change in the sector was high on the agenda at a three-day workshop of Higher Education Reform Experts South Africa (HERESA) held in Johannesburg from 2-4 October.” Desmond Thompson (University World News), gave a summary and insight to…
Over the last three years, the Higher Education Reform Experts South Africa (HERESA) has championed reform in the higher education sector, shaping policy, forging strategic partnerships, and responding to evolving societal needs. As a network devised between THENSA and OBREAL Global, with funding from the Erasmus+ Programme, HERESA has solidified its reputation as an agent…
Shaping Tomorrow’s Graduates: CUT’s Journey Towards Competency-Based Assessment and Evaluation Recently, the Central University of Technology’s (Free State) (CUT) Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) hosted a workshop focused on the development of a Competence-Based Assessment and Evaluation tool. This initiative aims to standardise approaches used to assess and evaluate graduate attributes competencies…
Competence-Based Learning (CBL) is a pedagogical approach that has been gaining traction over the years. However, conceptually, it is not a new phenomenon, but an expansion of existing efforts to get students to take a more active role in their learning. For the fourth episode of the ‘Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoP)’…
Higher Education Reform Experts South Africa (HERESA) Calls for Leadership for Change in the Higher Education Sector Within the South African higher education sector, the need for dynamic leadership practices that safeguard against societal calamities is now more urgent than ever. Not only will these solutions advance the transformative changes necessary for the sector to…
“Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoPs)” is the second series of the HERESA Podcast. Over the episodes of this series, we hope to define a Community of Practice (CoP) by speaking to the four chairs of HERESA’s CoPs established in the fields of Entrepreneurship Education, Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Competence-Based Learning (CBL) and Curriculum…
Over five episodes, the Community of Practice (CoP) series will speak to the four chairs of the CoPs established in the fields of Entrepreneurship Education, Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Competence-Based Learning (CBL) and Curriculum Development for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). For the second episode of this series, we chatted with Professor Keo Motaung, previously the…
‘Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoPs)’, is the second series of the HERESA Podcast. In this first episode, we spoke to Dr Helen McGuirk, Head of the Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence at the Munster Technological University (MTU), who provided us with a definition of a CoP. She outlined how it facilitates research…
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