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Collaborating and partnering for change
"Collaborating and partnering for change: 2013-2017" is a booklet that showcases CHED's contribution to UCT's strategic goals.
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Saturday, 20 October 2018
Academics conflicted by blended learning during protests

UCT academics expressed mixed feelings about blended learning, which was one of the strategies adopted to complete the academic programme during the 2016/17 student protests, researcher Genevieve Haupt said at the 2018 Teaching and Learning Conference.

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Publication Date:
Friday, August 3, 2018 - 09:00
Adopt Mbembe’s ‘pedagogies of presence’ – Lis Lange

Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor Lis Lange, has called on the university community to build a collective sense and common purpose around student success and experience at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This, she said, is imperative if UCT is to achieve the same level of academic excellence as its research enterprise.

Lange was speaking at the opening of the 2018 Teaching and Learning Conference on 17 July, with its theme ‘Care. Connect. Create.’

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Publication Date:
Monday, July 23, 2018 - 09:30
Translanguaging: Facilitating multilingual teaching

A new emphasis on multilingualism in South African universities is gaining momentum through a translanguaging project currently under way at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

The project, led by Professor Mbulungeni Madiba at the Multilingualism Education Project (MEP) in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), is aimed at bringing students’ multilingual resources into the classroom.

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Publication Date:
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 14:45
Collaborating and partnering for change

We are excited to release a booklet which showcases CHED's contributions to UCT's Strategic Plan, 2016-2020.

Download CHED: Collaborating and partnering for change: 2013-2017 to find out about our many collaborations and partnerships with schools, departments, Faculties, students, and academic staff over the past five years that have contributed to UCT's five strategic goals. 

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 15:45

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Why CHED at UCT?

What is CHED?

CHED’s mission is to promote equity of access, effectiveness of teaching and learning, and the enhancement of curriculum, with the aim of improving student success and developing UCT graduates who are locally relevant, socially responsive, globally competitive and representative of South Africa’s diverse population. Headed by the Dean of Higher Education Development, CHED’s organisational structure consists of a Dean’s Office and six departments: • Academic Development Programme
• Careers Service • Centre for Educational Testing for Access and Placement • Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching • Centre for Extra-Mural Studies • UCT School of Design Thinking (d-school).

CHED’s Vision

CHED aspires to be a significant contributor to innovative educational development, practice and scholarship in teaching and learning, in order to champion and advance social justice and transformation within CHED, UCT, the higher education sector and the broader society.

CHED’s Values

CHED’s values reflect an aspiration to put students at the centre of all that we do, realised through the foundational principles of transformation and collaboration. Key values are:

  • A commitment to social justice and transformation;
  • Students as influential agents of change and one of UCT’s greatest assets;
  • Educational development work informed by research based on ethical principles;
  • Partnership with faculties to achieve common goals of access and success

 

CHED’s mission and vision are reflected in a wide range of services which recognize two important realities about UCT’s students: Firstly, they are amazing, being some of the most talented and academically capable students in the country and from across the continent. Secondly, many of these very same students arrive at UCT, against great odds given the ongoing legacy of unequal provision of education. By providing ‘enabling pathways’ for students to flourish and contribute to UCT’s excellence, CHED realises its commitment to social justice and transformation that underpins all its work.
Suellen Shay
Former Dean of Centre for Higher Education Development
CHED

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Email: ched@uct.ac.za

Phone: 021 650 2645

Postal Address:
Centre for Higher Education Development
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3
RONDEBOSCH
7701
South Africa

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