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Direct linkEllery, Karen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Educational literature shows that students from working-class backgrounds are significantly less likely to persist to completion in higher education than middle-class students. This paper draws theoretically and analytically on Bernstein's ([1990. "Class, Codes and Control, Volume IV: The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse." London:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Social Class, Higher Education
Kiggundu, Edith; Moorosi, Pontso – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article presents the findings from the evaluation of the pilot of a new entry qualification for school principals in South Africa. The programme, Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) School Leadership, had networking as a distinctive feature, and this article examines candidates' perceptions and experiences of networking as a leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Admission Criteria
Venter, P. A.; Bezuidenhout, M. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
Quality assurance in higher education has a bearing on the policies, systems and processes directed at ensuring the quality of education provision in an institution (HEQC 1996, 14). To ensure a striving for excellence in academic programmes in a Faculty, to determine the extent to which this striving is achieved and to promote development and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Evaluation Criteria, Program Implementation
Blunt, R. J. S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This investigation elicited the perceptions of thirteen of the most successful research supervisors from one university, with a view to identifying their approaches to selecting research candidates. The supervisors were identified by the university's research office using the single criterion of having the largest number of completed research…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Supervisors, Supervisory Methods
Motaung, M. J.; Fraser, W. J.; Howie, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The use of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) in higher education to assess RPL candidates for admission into programmes of study met with a lot of criticism from faculty academics. Lecturers viewed the possibility of admitting large numbers of under-qualified adult learners, as a threat to the institution's reputation, or an erosion of academic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Prior Learning, Academic Standards, Adult Students
Bezuidenhout, M. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Quality assurance in medical education is a complex matter. Institutions and external critics of accreditation processes often question the objectivity of peer judgements. Members of accreditation panels similarly often feel at a loss for a lack of mechanisms to help them arrive at a collective assessment of the performance of an institution. In…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Participant Observation, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
