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Digital literacies in the era of AI; A lively discussion
The rapid rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators and policymakers to grapple with urgent questions: How should universities prepare students for an AI-driven world? Who bears...
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Who owns AI? Digital literacy, inequality, and the future of learning
Tools like ChatGPT have become a daily part of life for students and educators alike. But beneath the surface of convenience and efficiency lies a deeper, more uncomfortable reality that questions not...
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Emerging researchers and scholars encouraged to use available support tools...
“We cannot claim to have covered all the bases concerning the support and empowerment of early career researchers and academics, but we are getting there,” Dr Phethiwe Matutu, Chief Executive Officer...
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Open student engagement about AI would be more beneficial than policing them...
Professor Sioux McKenna, a professor of Higher Education Research at Rhodes University, recently led an online workshop titled Future-Proofing Postgraduate Education in the Age of AI. She was the first...
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Senior academics’ insights shared at the postgraduates and AI workshop
Universities and AI are such a hot topic, generating so many differing views and queries that a recent webinar on it triggered a stream of conversations in the Chat facility. This was at Universities...
View ArticleReflecting, Renewing, and Realigning: A baseline study of conceptions of...
Universities South Africa (USAf), through its Teaching and Learning Strategy Group (TLSG), and the Council on Higher Education (CHE), through its RELATE project, collaborated on a research study with...
View ArticleUniversities South Africa delivers a response to irresponsible commentary on...
Universities South Africa has issued a response to the scathing attack on public universities by Mr Dawie Roodt, the economist, published in BusinessTech, the online platform, in May 2025. Read more...
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A discussion from a LUNCH & LEARN webinar on Institutional AI Policies and...
The panel presentations at the LUNCH & LEARN webinar of 22 May, titled “Institutional AI Policies and Guidelines in South Africa for Learning and Teaching,” triggered rich discussions and led to an...
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Institutional AI Policies and Guidelines in South Africa for Learning and...
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT have become common on South African campuses, but their rapid uptake has necessitated responses concerning governance, training and assessment design. On May 22,...
View ArticleAdvancing academic excellence; A case for transformation and...
In recent public discourse, questions have been raised about South African universities prioritising hiring foreign academics over local talent. These claims, though understandable in the broader...
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