From Teachers to Perfect Humboldtian Persons to Academic Superpersons: The Teaching and Research Activities of the South African Academic Profession

2013 ◽  
pp. 277-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charl C. Wolhuter
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
The South ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Activities

scholarly journals Chartered accountancy and resistance in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Terblanche ◽  
Y. Waghid
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
The South ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
Chartered Accountants

In recent times, the chartered accountant profession was regularly in the news for reasons pertaining to the unethical and unprofessional behaviour of members. The profession has an important role to play in the South African economy, as members will often fulfil important decision-making roles in business. In a response to the dilemmas the profession is facing, we analysed the implications for the profession and society due to a resistance to include research as a pedagogical activity in the chartered accountancy educational landscape. Through deliberative research activities, students have the opportunity to engage with community members and with societal challenges that could foster reflexivity and humaneness in students. In addition, critical and problem-solving skills are cultivated. These are skills that are difficult to assess in the form of an examination, and the absence of research as pedagogical activity in this particular educational landscape, impacts the cultivation of these skills in future chartered accountants. This is so, as the chartered accountancy educational landscape is significantly influenced by the power that resonates within the profession and culminates into the disciplinary power mechanism of the examination. The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) set an external examination, called the Initial test of Competence (ITC), which graduates need to write upon leaving institutes of higher learning. Success in this SAICA-examination therefore impacts on the teaching and learning pedagogy adopted by chartered accountants in academe. If chartered accounting students were instead primarily being exposed to technical content assessed via an examination, also being exposed and introduced to deliberative research, the possibility exists that students, through critical reflexivity, could move beyond the constraints of the self to that of the communal other in line with the African notion of ubuntu can be enhanced.

scholarly journals More than 40 years of excellence: the outstanding contribution of the South African Edward A. Ueckermann to acarology

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1480
Author(s):  
P.D. Theron ◽  
Gilberto Moraes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The South ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Professional Capacity ◽  
To Receive

Great contribution to acarology has been provided by the South African taxonomist Edward A. Ueckermann, for the knowledge of mites of his country and of several other countries. His major contribution for more than 40 years concerns predaceous and phytophagous mites of many different families. He has conducted collaborative works with researchers from different countries, including Cape Verde, Marion and Reunion Islands, Israel, Kenya, Egypt, Zambia, Zimbabwe, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Brazil, Iran and USA. In addition, he has trained researchers and students of different countries in his specialty. More than 240 new species and 23 new genera were described by him, in more than 212 high quality scientific papers. His contribution has been recently recognized by the South Africa National Research Foundation, entitling him to receive incentive funding. Despite retiring in January 2016, he continues to participate in research activities in full professional capacity, collaborating with researchers from South Africa and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Management and Governance in Higher Education: South African Universities under Siege

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
C.C. Wolhuter ◽  
P. Langa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South African ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
University Management ◽  
The South ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Governance In Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
South African Higher Education

The recent spate of changes in university management worldwide should be carefully considered, interrogated and assessed against its impact on the capacity of the university fulfilling its unique role in society. For various justifiable reasons, South African higher education has been finding itself under the spotlight of the international community since 1994. The article surveys the South African academic profession vis à vis the changes that have been taking place regarding university governance and management. It is concluded that the South African academic profession, as far as (de jure and de facto) governance and management are concerned, find themselves sandwiched between two forces: from national and institutional governance on top, and the student corps from the bottom. This threatens the very survival of the university. A new exercise surveying the South African academic profession, as provided for by the Academic Profession in Knowledge Society (APIKS) international survey of the academic profession currently taking place, appears both timous and promising.

scholarly journals Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon F. Steyn ◽  
Lyndon S. Anthony ◽  
Faical Azaiez ◽  
Shadley Baard ◽  
Robert A. Bark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Radioisotope Production ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Activities

The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70~MeV commercial cyclotron is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.

Applications of additive manufacturing at selected South African universities: promoting additive manufacturing education

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 752-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal Omotayo Alabi ◽  
Deon De Beer ◽  
Harry Wichers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
South African ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The South ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
South African Universities ◽  
Support Programmes

Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent applications of additive manufacturing (AM) research and activities within selected universities in the Republic of South Africa (SA). Design/methodology/approach The paper is a general review of AM education, research and development effort within selected South African universities. The paper begins by looking at several support programmes and investments in AM technologies by the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST). The paper presents South Africa’s AM journey to date and recent global development in AM education. Next, the paper reviews the recent research activities on AM at four selected South African universities, South Africa AM roadmap and South African AM strategy. The future prospects of AM education and research are then evaluated through a SWOT analysis. Finally, the paper looks at the sustainability of AM from an education perspective. Findings The main lessons that have been learnt from South African AM research activities within selected universities are as follows: AM research activities at South African universities serve as a platform to promote AM education, and several support programmes and investments from South Africa’s DST have greatly enhanced the growth of AM across different sectors, such as medical, manufacturing, industrial design, tooling, jewellery and education. The government support has also assisted in the actualisation of the “Aeroswift” project, the world’s largest and fastest state-of-the-art AM machine that can 3D print metal parts. The AM research activities within South Africa’s universities have shown that it is not too late for developing countries to start and embrace AM technologies both in academia and industry. Based on a SWOT analysis, the future prospects of AM technology in SA are bright. Practical implications Researchers/readers from different backgrounds such as academic, industrial and governmental will be able to learn important lessons from SA’s AM journey and the success of SA’s AM researchers/practitioners. This paper will allow the major investors in AM technologies and business to see great opportunities to invest in AM education and research at all educational levels (i.e. high schools, colleges and universities) in South Africa. Originality/value The authors believe that the progress of AM education and research activities within SA’s universities show good practice and achievement over the years in both the applications of AM and the South African AM strategy introduced to promote AM research and the educational aspect of the technologies.

scholarly journals Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

Instruments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Steyn ◽  
Lyndon Anthony ◽  
Faiçal Azaiez ◽  
Shadley Baard ◽  
Robert Bark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Radioisotope Production ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Activities

The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70 MeV commercial cyclotron (for protons) is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.

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