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The everyday life information behaviour of visually impaired students at Stellenbosch University
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018)
This article investigated the everyday life information behaviour of students with visual impairment at Stellenbosch University (SU). Ten students with sight disabilities from various faculties completed a questionnaire ...
"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to university
(Routledge, 2014)
Most new students experience school to university transition as challenging.
Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are
most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic ...
Producing relevant medical education through community-engaged scholarship
(FIRE, 2018)
Some African higher education institutions (HEIs) were founded on the notion that they would serve the specific needs of African communities. Other HEIs have borrowed the concept of community-engaged scholarship (CES) from ...
The academic transitional experiences of masters’ students at the University of the Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)
Transition has been a major focus of educational institutions. However, most of the research into student transition focuses on the challenges related the transition from high school to university. Not much emphasis has ...
(Mis)framing higher education in South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)
The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at ...
Student nurses' experiences of the common teaching platform for undergraduate nursing in the Western Cape Province, SA
(2013)
The higher education system in South Africa transformed over the last two decades in response to societal changes and the new democratic order since 1994. Nursing education programmes in South Africa’s higher education ...
The infusion of emerging technologies in complex higher education settings
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2015)
In the context of an increasing reliance on, and integration of, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the Higher Education (HE) sector, innovative approaches are being sought in response to infrastructural ...
Attending to the affective: exploring first year students’ emotional experiences at university
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
This study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research ...
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the
importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies
to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...