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Audience insights on work-integrated learning and the responsibility of...
Entrepreneurship Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) and the Responsibility of Universities brought to the fore, the gaps warranting attention at universities, if entrepreneurship education is to yield...
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Sustainable development goals present viable opportunities for sustainable...
South Africa, though plagued by huge social problems amid rich natural resources, also presents significant opportunities in sustainable entrepreneurship – if only we could respond to the social,...
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Transforming entrepreneurship education; Elona Ndlovu’s perspective
During Day 2 of the 3rd Higher Education Conference by Universities South Africa, Ms Elona Ndlovu, a Chartered Coach and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT),...
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“A university cannot survive without water,” says Professor Kirsty Carden of...
“The availability of water of acceptable quality is one of our single greatest and most urgent development constraints. So we really do need to do something at all levels across the country to address...
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North-West University’s sustainability programme aims to drive societal change
Plastic litter is a big no-no at North-West University (NWU). From banning plastic bottles on its three campuses in Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark, to prohibiting the use of noisy poppers...
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Universities South Africa’s Strategy groups recap the outcomes of their...
One of the intended outcomes of the recent Higher Education conference of Universities South Africa (USAf) was to come up with proposals to enhance the sector towards a sustainable future of the...
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Cutting operational costs is one way public universities could survive,...
Stellenbosch University is considered to be a very well-resourced institution compared to others, said Bismark Tyobeka, yet it still faces a projected six-year deficit of R1.4 billion. Professor...
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“Mission accomplished” pretty much sums up USAf’s Higher Education Conference...
The 3rd Universities South Africa (USAf) Higher Education Conference 2024 set out “to bring the university sector with its multiple publics to engage in conversations related to sustaining the future...
View ArticleBeyond the classroom: SWEEP empowers the next generation of women entrepreneurs
“Success doesn’t happen overnight,” Ms Zana Boshoff, Project Manager for Universities South Africa’s (USAf) Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme emphasised in a one-on-one...
View ArticleBuild differently: global tech opportunities for SA Entrepreneurs
“One in four people in the world will be African by 2050,” declared global entrepreneur Ms Christine Souffrant Ntim at a roundtable discussion hosted by Universities South Africa (USAf) on Monday, 18...
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Effective mentoring can be about making people independent of any need for...
Mentoring does not have an end point – even if someone is on a specific mentoring programme with a cutoff date. “I hope when you get to the official end point, you don’t have the idea that it means you...
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There are as many models of mentorship as there are mentors and mentees, says...
In the true spirit of a community of practice (CoP), which meets to share knowledge and information and support on common concerns, the recent meeting of Universities South Africa’s (USAf’s) CoP on...
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Growing a movement: Women in Leadership (WiL)
The final session of the 2024 Women in Leadership (WiL) programme on 1 November 2024 began with a seemingly simple but profoundly symbolic activity: a group of women, holding a ball of string, throwing...
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Education must reclaim its place as a means to the betterment of life
If Dr Mimmy Gondwe could have her way, all higher education graduates would be fully active in the economy – selling and even exporting their skills to where they are needed the most. This was the...
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Early career academics talk about being mentored — what works and what could...
When Dr Heike Lucht, a research assistant at the University of Pretoria, was paired with a mentor affiliated with Rhodes University (RU) through an online programme, she was rather taken aback when she...
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WiL alumni gathering in 2025: sustaining the momentum
A significant gathering of the Higher Education Leadership and Management’s (HELM’s) Women in Leadership (WiL) alumni is set for early 2025, and is envisioned as the first of a series of events that...
View ArticleThe EDHE Intervarsity national finals event draws a prestigious high level crowd
The Director: Entrepreneurship, Universities South Africa (USAf), Dr Edwell Gumbo, began his opening address by naming those on the guestlist that included vice-chancellors, their deputies, deans,...
View ArticleDrug re-invention wins young pharmacist R100 000 and Studentpreneur of 2024...
“I hate death. I want to save our people.” These words have driven the overall winner of the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2024, 28-year-old Emmanuel Kiyonga, whose cancer and osteoporosis drug...
View ArticleNew French partnership with USAf calls for AI and Blue Ocean Tech researchers
The Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme is going international through the French Embassy in South Africa. These were the introductory words of Dr Edwell Gumbo (right),...
View ArticleA DHET chief director applauds six years of entrepreneurial innovation at...
The EDHE programme represents an important contribution to transformation in Higher Education in terms of growing studentpreneurship, developing an entrepreneurial mindset in academics across...
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