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Navigating the National Qualifications Framework: the role of career guidance
(UNISA, 2009)
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) recently commissioned a review of the career development field in South Africa. The review was designed to clarify what SAQA’s role might be in assisting learners throughout ...
Re-imagining a picture: Higher education in lifelong learning
(IIZ/DVV, Hamburg, Germany, 2000)
In using “lifelong learning” as the frame to observe higher education institutions, our gaze focuses both internally and externally. Internally we see a concern to ensure high quality, and flexible teaching and learning ...
Flexible learning and teaching: Looking beyond the binary of full-time/part-time provision in South African higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This paper engages with literature on flexible learning and teaching in order to explore
whether it may be possible, within the South African context, to have flexible learning and
teaching provide a third way which goes ...
A realist assessment of the implementation of blended learning in a higher education context: the case of the Library and Information Science Department at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Opportunities for further studies by working adults came under threat as the University of the Western Cape stopped the offering of after-hours classes in most of its Faculties. Unqualified and under-qualified librarians ...
Keeping the doors of learning open for adult student-workers within higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The Freedom Charter of the African National Congress (ANC), the triumphant South African liberation movement, proclaims that ‘the doors of learning shall be open’ for all. Twenty years since coming to power, the doors of ...
Building common knowledge: negotiating new pedagogies in Higher Education in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Discussions in this chapter are located within an action research-based study which aims at supporting the integration of enhanced pedagogies in one university in South Africa. The study recognises that even full-time ...
Making sense of the transitional maelstrom of part-time students and their conceptions of learning as mediated by conceptional domains of work, family and self. A case study of undergraduate, part-time political studies students at a university in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The traditional trajectory of young students in higher education in South Africa is currently under sharp scrutiny and the general provision is considered to be inadequate in terms of quality, diversity and quantity. There ...
New challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1999-06-28)
The imperatives for lifelong learning in South Africa are driven by its reinsertion into the global economy and by the social and political necessities of equity and redress after the years of colonialism, segregation and ...
Lifelong learning and connected-up development: insights from South Africa
(UNESCO, 2011)
Lifelong learning through the four major stages of people’s development
(Schuller and Watson 2009) embodies the need for integrated, connected-up
approaches to development. I will reference briefly three examples in ...
Competency based training and national qualifications frameworks: insights from South Africa
(Springer, 2008)
During the last thirty years, National Qualification Frameworks have emerged as an attempt by the state to ‘manage’ the relations between education, training and work. Drawing on South African experiences of ten years of ...