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Schalk Pienaar, Agbiz chairperson, says that the current drought is by far the worst he has experienced in his 35-year career in agriculture. The effects will have an impact on the entire Southern African economy and consumers can expect a major spike in food prices from August.
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CSERC '16 : Computer Science Education Research Conference South Africa, Pretoria, Cullinan, 5-6 July 2016
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INTRODUCTIONThis paper aims to assess the current Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure in higher education institutions (HEIs) whether it can support the use of collaborative web technologies (CWTs) in a blended learning (BL) environment. Our review of the literature shows that a good ICT infrastructure is an essential element when considering for the use and adoption of CWT-enabled BL in learning and teaching (Mtebe & Raphael, 2013; Toro & Joshi, 2012; Sife, et...
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Increasing drought frequencies due to climate change, pose a serious threat to rain-fed farmers in rural Africa where the policy thrust points to improving efficiency of these farmers. This article uses cross sectional data collected from 411 randomly selected farmers and applies the stochastic frontier method (SFM) to investigate the extent to which drought influences technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in Hurungwe, Zimbabwe. First, technical efficiency of smallholder farmers is...
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This article emerges out of qualitative data gleaned through semi-structured interviews with fifteen Gabonese and Congolese students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town. It draws on theoretical conceptions such as transnationalism, social exclusion and migrant adaptation, to interrogate the social experiences of francophone students and their tactics for dealing with exclusionary practices from peers and staff. Using selected excerpts from the data, this...
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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has become a global reality and most universities use it to achieve different objectives which indicate variation in how it is understood, used and encouraged. Some universities view it as the tool for broadening scholarship and thus as additional to established scholarships of discovery, integration and application similar to Boyer’s (1990) meaning. Other universities employ the SoTL in promotion and tenure while others have not engaged it in...
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Geographical information science (GISc) is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. Being a relatively new discipline, universities often provide training as part of geography, surveying, town planning, environmental and computer science programmes. This complicates professional accreditation assessments as the content, outcomes, extent and quality of training can vary significantly. In this paper one international and two South African GISc curriculum development models are...
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Equal But Separate: The Disproportionate Representation of African American Students in Special Education by
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In Brief Purpose: To describe a health and weight management intervention for children who are African American. Methods: Body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and fitness levels were measured in 222 students (kindergarten–eighth grade) from 2 schools (control and intervention). Baseline and outcome data were collected over the course of 2 academic years. The intervention group received education on good nutrition and active lifestyle. Intervention students were also given the Body Figure...
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This study reports on student experiences in an access programme in the science faculty at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, named the BSc Four Year Programme (BFYP). The programme has a preparatory 18 months phase after which students join the mainstream programme. The aim of the paper is to give a voice to students who enrolled in 2008 and are either still in the system or have successfully completed the degree programme. We identify three performance bands – good, moderate and...
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This article presents the preliminary findings of two community engagement/service learning case studies undertaken at one South African university. The following criteria were used for selecting the case studies: they were community needs-led, attracted a multidisciplinary team approach and involved service learning students from different disciplines. The findings highlight the challenges of negotiating these three dimensions, and the perceived learning benefits for community, staff and...
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This paper reports on the findings of an action research, pilot project called One-by-One. Six first-year students in the extended curriculum programme at the University of the Western Cape were mentored, supported and closely monitored during 2011 to overcome their low morale and fear of failure. The paper draws on motivation theories, social theories of learning and student learning theories as theoretical framework. These theories assisted with the focus of the project which was on...
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In South Africa four key policy discourses underpin doctoral education: growth, capacity, efficiency, and quality discourses. This article contributes to the discourse on quality by engaging with quality assurance from the perspective of the decision makers and implementers of macro policy (national), meso (institutional), and micro (faculty/departmental) levels. We explore the perceptions that members of higher degree committees in the field of Education have of the quality assurance of...
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Biodiversity is regarded as a key asset in safeguarding the well-being of future generations. The threat to biodiversity through indiscretionary human activities is increasingly gaining attention, from local to global scales. Biodiversity forms part of the agenda for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through addressing inter-linkages between the various components and systems comprising the environment. This has been illustrated throughout the Decade of Education for Sustainable...