UCT-Harvard Mandela Fellowships – 2023

The Harvard-UCT Mandela Fellowships are intended to strengthen connections between the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and UCT. Closing date: 31 January 2023
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UCT graduates ‘highly sought after’

More than 50% of the University of Cape Townʼs (UCT) 2018–2019 graduate cohort are employed in South Africa’s private sector, with over 20% earning more than R20 000 a month.

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STELLA CLARK TEACHERS’ AWARD

UCT students are invited to nominate a teacher who is currently teaching in a secondary school and who, in your opinion, deserves recognition for years of dedicated teaching to students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
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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 Assessment
• Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching
• 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 advances educational development by partnering with staff and students to enhance pedagogical, curriculum and assessment practice through innovation, scholarship, and research. In the last two years, CHED’s mandate was put to the test but it has risen to the challenge. Through a multifaceted approach across its departments and units (higher education research, academic and professional staff development, student success pathways and support, curriculum design and change, language and numeracy literacies, digitally enabled education, design-thinking, careers support, and educational assessment), CHED, and in particular CILT, has led UCT in the transition to online and now hybrid modes of teaching and learning. To ensure that our ultimate beneficiaries, students and knowledge generation, are supported intentionally, CHED continues to lead the academic/education development project collaboratively and inclusively, in socially conscious ways to shape a sustainable future for all. We strive to embrace a “decolonial attitude and love that recognises alliances and affection and affirms each other’s humanity, across lines of difference” (Maldonado-Torres, 2016). Associate Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak Dean of Higher Education Development
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