Meeting postponed to January as Phakeng faces mounting opposition to her leadership at the divided campus, including accusations of flouting governance processes
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The university is being torn by a crisis of governance which has seen growing antipathy to vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s leadership
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The former deputy at the centre of the row was accused of misrepresenting her credentials
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She is accused of flouting governance processes, along with council chair Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly regarding the exit of deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange
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Campuses elsewhere in Africa have seen the damage done by student activism influenced by political parties, a matter that has raised concern at South Africa’s higher education institutions
The department’s proposal in this regard gives only variations on a homogenous system.
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/ 31 October 2011
The work-in-progress of liberation requires students to muster a daily heroism.
We need to understand why we have failed the
intellectual, ethical challenge, writes <b>Lis Lange</b>.
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The HEQC has audited 26 higher education institutions, 15 of them public, since the inception of the institutional audits in 2004.
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Twenty audits have been conducted by the higher education quality committee so far and have required an enormous amount of work from higher education institutions. They have had to prepare a comprehensive self-evaluation against the HEQC audit criteria, provide extensive supporting documentation, organise the logistics of hosting an audit panel.
Three years ago the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education was the subject of attention following the closure of 15 MBA degrees offered by public and private higher education institutions due to poor quality. The function of the committee is in the spotlight again following allegations of plagiarism and poor quality involving PhDs.