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Funding sources for public higher education in South Africa: institutional responses
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
Tuition fees and the use of student loans to complement government’s allocations
have become unavoidable because of increasing competing new priorities for funding.
This article addresses the funding sources of public ...
Conceptualising transformation and interrogating elitism: the Bale scholarship programme
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
In this article, we consider the extent to which a scholarship programme at the University of
the Witwatersrand (Wits) engages with the challenges of transformation. This scholarship
programme highlights the transformative ...
Queering transformation in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)
Transformation in higher education has tended to focus on race and sex, at the expense of other forms
of discrimination. This article addresses the silencing of ‘queer’ issues in higher education. Using queer
theory as ...
External group coaching and mentoring: building a research community of practice at a university of technology
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
Globally, a clarion call has been made for higher education institutions to establish
creative and effective research capacity-building systems with the purpose of
developing a next generation of scholars. The training ...
Enkele voorspellers van die akademiese prestasie van eerste- jaarstudente in drie- en vierjaar- kurrikulums
(University of the Free State, 2012)
English: Low success rates at South African higher education institutions instigated renewed interest in the predictors of academic performance. This study article investigates academic and psychosocial predictors of ...
Psychological mindedness and academic achievement of psychology students in a higher education environment
(University of the Free State, 2011)
English: This article aims to determine the relationship between psychological mindedness
and academic achievement and whether there are differences in demographic variables
in relation to both psychological mindedness ...
‘Breaking out of the cocoon’: academics’ experiences of integrating HIV and AIDS into the curriculum
(University of the Free State, 2013)
English: The South African Higher Education Policy Framework on HIV and AIDS tasks universities to address HIV and AIDS in teaching, research and community engagement. In a global economy, integration in academic disciplines ...
Participation in higher education: experiences of students with disabilities
(University of the Free State, 2011)
English: Higher education institutions are required to promote equal access to all qualifying students, including those with disabilities. These institutions are expected to create environments that accommodate the diverse ...
Higher education and the public good: precarious potential?
(University of the Free State, 2014)
Concerns about, and critiques of neo liberal policy regimes in higher education have
heightened the search for alternative normative and organisational models, many
of which have coalesced around the necessity to re ...
Validating a test of academic literacy at a South African university of technology
(University of the Free State, 2013)
English: The advent of a democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994 officially made it possible for historically disadvantaged groups, Black students in particular, to gain access to higher education at historically ...