Browsing by Subject "University"
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Body image, weight discrepancy and body mass index among university students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(AJOL, 2020)This study examined the relationship between body image, weight discrepancy and body mass index among female university students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A total of 183 university students aged 18.7±1.17 years volunteered ... -
Community-university partnership to enhance wellbeing of families: factors that sustain it
(Unisa Press, 2016)Universities have a civic responsibility to engage with communities to capacitate and develop for the purpose of health and wellbeing. Although service learning serves part of this purpose, there is an additional requirement ... -
Conquering the publishing silences of black academic women
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Although women fulfil and play meaningful roles in the academic life of universities, their contributions have seldom been acknowledged. The voices of women outside of the dominant western context of knowledge production ... -
Contract workers at HEIs within a framework of motivational leadership
(Unisa Press, 2013)Most literature sources are based on negative assumptions about contract workers and career success. Despite the growing number of contract workers employed at higher education institutions (HEIs), and the changes it ... -
Entering university studies: identifying enabling factors for a successful transition from school to university
(Springer Verlag, 2017)The South African higher education sector is faced with high attrition and low retention rates. Studies conducted by the Council on Higher Education in South Africa have found that 50% of black students who access university ... -
Experiences and perceptions of students with disabilities concerning factors influencing participation in recreational sport at a University in Western Cape Province , South Africa
(LAM Publications Limited, 2013)South African universities share a common purpose to make sport and recreation accessible to students at higher education institutions, including students with disabilities.Therefore, integrating students with disabilities ... -
Experiences of mentorship with academic staff doctoral candidates at a South African university
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Given the growing emphasis on academic research output and the challenges encountered in expediting completion of doctoral studies especially, mentorship is increasingly being utilised as a capacity development strategy ... -
Heteronormative higher education: challenging this status quo through LGBTIQ awareness-raising
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)This article focus on the challenges homophobia and transphobia pose to LGBTIQ students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a historically black peri-urban university located on the margins of Cape Town. Both the ... -
The impact of the neoliberal technological epoch and Covid-19 on the decolonization of the university curriculum
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)In this article we will argue that South Africa’s capitalist neoliberal agenda for higher education, where the focus is on the shift from a knowledge economy to a digital economy, will choke the life of indigenous knowledge ... -
Information security at South African universities-Implications for biomedical research
(Oxford University Press, 2020)In South Africa, a similar regulation strategy to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, called the Protection of Personal Information Act (No 4 of 2013) (POPIA), will be implemented, with a view to ... -
Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi
(UNISA Press, 2015)The study reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by lecturers in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University (MZUNI), Mzuzu, Malawi. By distributing a ... -
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings ... -
Oral hygienists' self-perceived competence on completion of a blended learning course in local anaesthesia at a South African university
(South African Dental Association, 2018)The expanding scope of practice of oral hygienists require universities to offer courses that would enhance their skills. Aim and objectives: To determine the self-perceived competence of oral hygienists to deliver local ... -
The role of family structure and parenting in first year university adjustment
(SAGE, 2018)The first year of university creates new experiences and challenges for first years and lays the foundation for the subsequent years of study. This first year has implications for academic development, mental health, and ... -
Sport for development. African international university Initiative (s.f.d-a.i.u.i.) justification and basic assumptions of a sport and development study programme in Southern Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This paper gives the vision of the initiators of the programme on the two basic elements of the title: 'Sport for Development' and 'African International Interuniversity Initiative'. This vision is already partly put in ... -
Stakeholders’ community-engaged teaching and learning experiences at three universities in South Africa
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021)Transformation forces in South African (SA) higher education and beyond have called for incorporation of community engagement into higher education. Specifically, the SA white paper 3 that informed the Higher Education ... -
Stress and smoking among university students at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)INTRODUCTION: Stress is one of the most commonly reported reasons for smoking and generally smokers are perceived to experience more stress than non-smokers. Reducing stress may thus be an important part of smoking ... -
The tale of academic practice in a rising knowledge society: focus on a university in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)This paper is based on a study conducted to establish if academic practice in a university designated as Azania is aligning or diverting from the expectations of the rising knowledge society in South Africa. The paper is ... -
Unintended positive consequences of development centres in University graduates
(Frontiers Media, 2021)This study investigated development centres as a method to improve the generalised self-efficacy of university graduates. This research was motivated by the various challenges, graduates face in order to successfully ...