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Rossouw, J. P. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
An increase in research productivity is of vital importance in the development of countries worldwide. However, when research outputs are measured, many higher education faculties neither meet the expectations regarding quality nor quantity despite the increasing drive towards publications. This paper examines how academic managers can reform a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, College Faculty, College Environment
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Mahlangu, Vimbi Petrus – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
The paper emanates from the Chancellor's address that I presented on the 5th of March 2019 at the University of South Africa. Betrayal Trauma Theory (BTT) was used as a lens in understanding toxic leadership in work places. BTT focuses on the ways in which toxic behaviour of leaders may violate or negatively affect trust and well-being of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Work Environment, Power Structure, Trust (Psychology)
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McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark – South African Journal of Education, 2020
The concept of decent work is intuitively desirable, an ideal to strive for, and a human right. Awareness of the decent work agenda has been raised in career counselling and is posing challenges about what role, if any, career counselling can play towards the achievement of sustainable decent work for all. Feeding into the social justice values of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Social Justice, Labor Market, Civil Rights
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Belluigi, Dina Zoe; Thondhlana, Gladman – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
With inequality persistent across geopolitical contexts, 'transformation' continues to be expediently cited in the rhetoric of higher education institutions. Illuminating alike issues worldwide, the paper critically examines race, inequality and oppression among the black and women academics who were selected as recipients of post-apartheid…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, African American Teachers, Women Faculty, College Faculty
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Mavunga, George; Cross, Michael – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Employee learning which is known by terms such as "human capital development" and "lifelong learning" is an aspect of post-school learning which people engage in for purposes of enhancing their work-related competencies and possibly achieve upward professional mobility. There are different views on how best employee learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning, Employees
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Fricke, I.; Horak, E.; Meyer, L.; van Lingen, N. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
International benchmark studies confirm that school mathematics and science education in South Africa is weak and suffers from systemic problems. The Teacher Mentorship Programme (TMP) based at the Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering of the University of Pretoria was borne out of lessons learnt from ongoing outreach and awareness…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Pilot Projects, Educational Change