scholarly journals The Launch of the National Rollout of the Municipal Innovation Maturity Index (MIMI) (A tool to measure innovation in municipalities).

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Director General ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The University

The MIMI project was initiated by the DSI in partnership with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the HSRC and UKZN. The purpose of this initiative was to develop an innovative tool capable of assessing and measuring the innovation landscape in municipalities, thus enabling municipalities to adopt innovative practices to improve service delivery. The outcome of the implementation testing, based on the participation of 22 municipalities, demonstrated the value and the capacity of MIMI to produce innovation maturity scores for municipalities. The digital assessment tool looked at how a municipality, as an organisation, responds to science, technology and innovation (STI) linked to service delivery, and the innovation capabilities and readiness of the municipality and the officials themselves. The tool is also designed to recommend areas of improvements in adopting innovative practices and nurturing an innovation mindset for impactful municipal service delivery. The plan going forward is to conduct learning forums to train municipal officials on how to use the MIMI digital platform, inform them about the nationwide implementation rollout plan and support municipal officials to engage in interactive and shared learnings to allow them to move to higher innovation maturity levels. The virtual launch featured a keynote address by the DSI Director-General, Dr Phil Mjwara; Prof Mehmet Akif Demircioglu from the National University of Singapore gave an international perspective on innovation measurements in the public sector; and messages of support were received from MIMI partners, delivered by Prof Mosa Moshabela, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) of Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Prof Leickness Simbayi, Acting CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). It attracted over 200 attendees from municipalities, government, business and private sector stakeholders, academics, policymakers and the international audience. @ASSAf_Official; @dsigovza; #MIMI_Launch; #IID

Ian Gordon Ross 1926 - 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gad Fischer ◽  
Robert G. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Electronic Spectroscopy ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Pi Systems ◽  
National University ◽  
University College London ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University

Ian Gordon Ross (1926?2006) was educated at the University of Sydney (BSc 1943?1946, MSc 1947?1949) and University College London (PhD 1949?1952), did postdoctoral research at Florida State University (1953?1954), and was a staff member at the University of Sydney, 1954?1967. In 1968, he moved to the Australian National University (ANU) as Professor of Chemistry, where he also became Dean of Science (1973), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1977) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Special Projects) (1989?1990). He was instrumental in setting up Anutech, the commercial arm of the University. He was a driving force behind the establishment of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering at the ANU. His research centred on electronic spectroscopy of pi systems.

Robert Street 1920–2013

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Barber ◽  
Paul G. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Solid State Physics ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
Research School ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The University

Following wartime work on radar and a University of London PhD awarded for measurement of absolute power, Bob Street developed his interest in low-temperature magnetism in solids while on the staff at Sheffield University. In 1960 he became Foundation Professor of Physics at Monash University where he built a department with strong capabilities in solid state physics. His own research continued at Monash but was put aside when he became Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University (1973–7) and then Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia (1978–86). Although the ANU experience was not a happy one, he flourished at UWA where his initiatives and strategic thinking laid the groundwork for advancement of the university. Street had kept up with advances in his research field and upon retirement he went back to it with notable success in publication, supervision of research students, acquisition of research grants and fruitful collaborations. He is fondly remembered as a first class physicist with a passion for cricket.

scholarly journals Exploring Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-153
Author(s):  
Saim Kayadibi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Director General ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

The International Conference on Research in Islamic Laws 2009 (ICRIL‘09)was held on 15-16 July 2009 at the University of Malaya’s (UM) Departmentof Shari`ah and Law. The 145 presenters focused on the contemporary challengesand prospects in Islamic studies. Zubaidah Ismail (director, ICRIL‘09)welcomed the audience and spoke of the importance of Islamic laws; IbrahimLembut (director general and chief Shari`ah judge of Malaysia) gave anopening address, and Ahmad Hidayat Buang (director, the Academy ofIslamic Studies) declared the event officially opened on behalf of Ghauth Jasmon(vice chancellor, UM) ...

Spaces of Autonomy, Spaces of Hope: The place of the university in post-colonial Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-482
Author(s):  
PHILIP HOLDEN
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Party State

AbstractThis article explores the background to and consequences of the resignation of B. R. Sreenivasan as the vice-chancellor of the University of Singapore in October 1963, after a public clash with the People's Action Party state government, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Sreenivasan's resignation has been the subject of radically different historical interpretations. It has been celebrated by some nationalist historians as part of a process of cultural decolonization, but criticized by others as precipitating a two-decades long erosion of academic freedom in Singapore. Careful attention to the event and its context, however, offers a powerful heuristic concerning the place of higher education in the process of decolonization, and the manner in which colonial universities came to be symbolic repositories of nationalism that enjoyed some degree of autonomy from the state. Debates on the role of the university that arose in Singapore after the resignation were plural, and diverse, and have much to teach us not only about the past, but also about a future in which international research universities such as the National University of Singapore embrace contradictory roles and yet still strive for new forms of academic autonomy.

scholarly journals The Extent to Which Universities Have Embraced Technology in Service Delivery: A Comparative Study of NUST (Zimbabwe) and University of Venda (RSA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
Njabulo Bruce Khumalo ◽  
Charity Baloyib
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Service ◽  
Global Village ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

nformation Communication Technologies have greatly impacted the education sector over the years leading to electronic service delivery. Universities all over the world are embracing Information Communication Technologies especially the internet, creating websites, making use of web 2.0 applications, that is, social networks and moving their services from manual based to electronic platforms. The study was comparative, looking extent to which the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) (Zimbabwe) and the University of Venda (RSA) have embraced ICTs in the conduct of business and how this has impacted on their service delivery. Universities have embraced ICTs in different levels, according to their capacity in terms of finances, human resources, institutional capacity and other variables. A combination of web content analysis and a comparative study of the web presence of the two universities was done which revealed that the universities are present on some web 2.0 applications though not fully exploiting all the functions. Websites for both universities were carefully analysed and the results showed that online service delivery was growing yet in need of full implementation and use. It is therefore recommended that these universities adopt online service delivery to enhance and develop lives of the university community. Keywords: Information Communication Technology, Information society, Global village, Universities, e-learning.

scholarly journals The extent to which universities have embraced technology in service delivery: a comparative study of NUST (Zimbabwe) and University of Venda (RSA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Njabulo Bruce Khumalo ◽  
Charity Baloyi
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Global Village ◽  
National University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

Information communication technologies (ICTs) have greatly impacted the education sector over the years leading to electronic service delivery. Universities all over the world are embracing ICTs, especially the Internet, creating websites, making use of Web 2.0 applications, that is, social networks and moving their services from a manual based to electronic platforms. The study was comparative, looking extent to which the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe) and the University of Venda (RSA) have embraced ICTs in the conduct of business and how this has impacted on their service delivery. Universities have embraced ICTs in different levels, according to their capacity in terms of finances, human resources, institutional capacity and other variables. A combination of web content analysis and a comparative study of the web presence of the two universities was done which revealed that the universities are present on some Web 2.0 applications though not fully exploiting all the functions.   Keywords: Information communication technology, information society, global village, universities, e-learning.  

scholarly journals The extent to which universities have embraced technology in service delivery: A comparative study of NUST (Zimbabwe) and University of Venda (RSA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Njabulo Bruce Khumalo ◽  
Charity Baloyi
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Global Village ◽  
National University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
The Comparative Study

AbstractInformation and communications technologies (ICT) have greatly impacted the education sector over the years leading to electronic service delivery. Universities all over the world are embracing ICTs especially the Internet, making use of web 2.0 applications, that is, social networks and moving their services from manual based to electronic platforms. The comparative study was done to find out to what extent the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) (Zimbabwe) and the University of Venda (RSA) have embraced ICTs in the conduct of business and how this has impacted on their service delivery. A combination of web content analysis and a comparative study of the web presence of the two universities was done which revealed that the universities are present on some web 2.0 applications though not fully exploiting all the functions. It is recommended that these universities adopt online service delivery to enhance and develop lives of the university community.Keywords: Information and communications technology, information society, global village, universities, e-learning.

scholarly journals IAU President Walter Kamba (1990–1995): A Man of Conscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Goolam Mohamedbhai
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe ◽  
Improving Teaching And Learning

AbstractIn June 1983, I participated, as representative of the University of Mauritius, in a training course on improving teaching and learning for academics from different African universities. It took place at the Roma campus of the National University of Lesotho. One afternoon, we were introduced to a distinguished guest speaker, Professor Walter Kamba, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe.

Lawrence Walter Nichol 1935–2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Jeffrey ◽  
Donald J. Winzor ◽  
Philip W. Kuchel
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Physical Biochemistry ◽  
Australian Universities

Lawrence (Laurie) Walter Nichol FAA was Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from 1988 to 1993, and before that, of the University of New England (UNE) from 1985 to 1988. His independent academic career began in 1963 at the ANU as a Research Fellow in the Department of Physical Biochemistry in the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR). The department was headed by Professor Alexander (Sandy) G. Ogston FRS. Thus, Laurie's career finally circled back, after overseas sabbaticals and other appointments at Australian universities, to the ANU.

scholarly journals The extent to which universities have embraced technology in service delivery: A comparative study of NUST (Zimbabwe) and university of Venda (RSA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Njabulo Bruce Khumalo ◽  
Charity Baloyi
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Service ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

 Information Communication Technologies have greatly impacted the education sector over the years leading to electronic service delivery. Universities all over the world are embracing Information Communication Technologies especially the internet, creating websites, making use of web 2.0 applications, that is, social networks and moving their services from manual based to electronic platforms. The study was comparative, looking extent to which the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) (Zimbabwe) and the University of Venda (RSA) have embraced ICTs in the conduct of business and how this has impacted on their service delivery.  Universities have embraced ICTs in different levels, according to their capacity in terms of finances, human resources, institutional capacity and other variables. A combination of web content analysis and a comparative study of the web presence of the two universities was done which revealed that the universities are present on some web 2.0 applications though not fully exploiting all the functions. Websites for both universities were carefully analysed and the results showed that online service delivery was growing yet in need of full implementation and use. It is therefore recommended that these universities adopt online service delivery to    enhance and develop lives of the university community. 

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