The role of higher education centers in improving the academy1

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called â€˜Mapoch Grondenâ€™, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the â€˜Mapoggersâ€™ settled in the newly built â€˜townshipâ€™ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe â€“ a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni â€“ testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

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HACIA UNA DIRECCIÓN UNIVERSITARIA CON EFICIENCIA EN EL TRABAJO DE LAS FACULTADES. REFLEXIONES.

REVISTA CIENCIAS PEDAGÓGICAS E INNOVACIÓN ◽

10.26423/rcpi.v1i1.50 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Margarita de las N. Lamas González. ◽

Sandra Canalias Lamas

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Resources ◽

Formation Process ◽

University Management ◽

Educational Management ◽

The People ◽

Palabras Clave ◽

Recursos Humanos ◽

Higher Education Centers ◽

Efficient Work

Una de las formas de agrupación dentro de los centros de altos estudios, para la gestión de los recursos humanos, que posibiliten el trabajo estratégico, sistémico, humano y eficiente lo constituyen las Facultades Universitarias. El análisis incursiona en algunas reflexiones teóricas sobre la gerencia universitaria por facultades en la actualidad, retomando publicaciones especializadas en dirección empresarial y educativa; así como la experiencia de las autoras en este desempeño. Concluye que la dirección universitaria tiene un valor metodológico significativo al establecer que ésta solo tiene sentido si se relaciona íntimamente y responde al objeto de estudio de la pedagogía, es decir al proceso de formación integral de las personas. Palabras Clave: Recursos Humanos, Gerencia Universitaria, Pedagogía, Formación Integral. ABSTRACT University Faculties constitute one of the ways of grouping within higher education centers for the management of human resources to make strategic, systemic, human and efficient work possible. This analysis involves some theoretical thoughts on university management held by faculties, retaking specialized publications in business and educational management, as well as the experience of more than four decades of the author of this paper. The analysis concludes that university direction has a significant methodological value and it establishes that it makes sense if it is closely related to the object if study of pedagogy, that is, to the people´s integral formation process. Keywords: Human Resources, University Management, Pedagogy, Holistic EducationRecibido: abril, 2012Aprobado: julio, 2012

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CONCEPTUAL BASES OF ADAPTATION OF UKRAINE’S HIGHER EDUCATION TO THE STANDARDS OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF THE EUROPEAN AREA

The Pedagogical Process Theory and Practice ◽

10.28925/2078-1687.2018.1-2.2331 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nina Batechko

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Quality Assurance ◽

European Higher Education Area ◽

Quality Of Higher Education ◽

European Area ◽

European Higher Education ◽

European Standards ◽

Conceptual Foundations

The article outlines the conceptual framework for adapting Ukrainian higher education to the Standards and Recommendations for Quality Assurance in the European higher education area. The role of the Bologna Declaration in ensuring the quality of higher education in Europe has been explained. The conceptual foundations and the essence of standards and recommendations on quality assurance in the European higher education area have been defined. The Ukrainian realities of the adaptation of higher education of Ukraine to the educational European standards of quality have been characterized.

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