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International UCT

International UCT

International UCT

International UCT

International UCT

UCT is soUTh AfriCA’s oldesT UniversiTy. esTAblished in 1829, iT hAs mAinTAined A proUd TrAdiTion of ACAdemiC exCellenCe, whiCh TodAy sees iT rAnked Among The world’s leAding TeAChing And reseArCh insTiTUTes. renowned for iTs sTriking loCATion AT The fooT of TAble moUnTAin’s devil’s peAk, UCT is A miCroCosm of The CiTy in iTs TiTle. iT is home To A vibrAnT, CosmopoliTAn CommUniTy of over 26 000 sTUdenTs And 5 000 sTAff members from over 100 CoUnTries in AfriCA And AbroAd.

CONTENTS

Mission stateMent of the University of

Cape town 5

Message froM the viCe-ChanCellor 6

introdUCtion by the depUty viCe-

ChanCellor 8

history of the University of Cape town 10

>Transformation 11

>UCT today 11

history of internationalisation 12

international aCadeMiC prograMMes offiCe 14

>Welcome from the Director 14

>International Academic Programmes Office 15

>Vision Statement 15

>Mission Statement 16

iapo’s Core serviCes and fUnCtions 18

>Directorate 18

>African Partnerships and Study Programmes 18

>Confucius Institute 19

>Finance 20

>Mobility Partnerships and Programmes 20

>Systems, Communication and Information 21

>Short Term International Programmes (STIP) 22

>IAPO’s Core Services 22

internationalisation highlights 24

A watershed period in

internationalisation in higher education

globally

01 | Strategic PartnerShiPS and

ProgrammeS 28

> Africa Regional International Staff/Student

Exchange programme 30

> Universities Science, Humanities, Law and

Engineering Partnerships in Africa 32

>Worldwide Universities Network 34

>Scholars at Risk 36

>Organisation for Women in Science for the

>Developing World 37

> Trilateral agreement: A Leadership

Development Partnership between UCT, the

University of Fort Hare and the University

of Venda 38

>Australia-Africa Universities Network 39

> University of Cologne Global Network

Partnership 40

>The Southern African-Nordic Centre 41

>Erasmus Mundus 42

>Barnard College Scholarships 43

>Yale/Fox International Fellowships 44

> Miller-Sidgwick International Exchange

Scholarship: The University of Michigan and the

University of Cape Town 45

>MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program 46

> London School of Economics and Political

Science (LSE) / UCT July School 48

> Pennsylvania State University Strategic

Partnership 49

>Confucius Institute 50

> Strategic initiatives of the Research Office 51

02 | international mobility 54

>Semester Study Abroad 56

>UCT Students on International Exchange 58

>Staff Mobility administered by IAPO 60

03 | FacultieS 62

humanitieS 64

> International Students and Post-

Doctoral Fellows 65

>Staff Exchanges and Networking 65

>Institutions Visited on Staff Exchanges 66

>Projects and networks 66

>International staff and appointments 66

>Recent International linkages 66

>Visiting Scholars 67

>Future Internationalisation Plans 67

>Internationalisation Highlights 67

HealtH ScienceS 68

>Students 69

>Scholars 69

>Recent Internationalisation Highlights 69

>Teaching and Research Collaborations 70

Science 72

> International Students and Post-

Doctoral Fellows 73

> UCT Students Sent on Exchange 73

>International Staff 73

> Staff Exchanges and Networking 73

> International Visits, Conferences and Colloquia 74


>Recent International Linkages 74

>Future Internationalisation Plans 74


commerce 76

>Academic Staff Liaison 77

>Students 77

>International Student Overview 77

>UCT Students Sent on Exchange 77

> International Visits, Conferences

and Colloquia 77

>International Linkages 77



Graduate ScHool of BuSineSS (GSB) 79

4 u c t i a p o | I N T E R N A T I O N A L U C T

>International Accreditations 79

>International Faculty 79

>International Partners 80

>Exchanges 80


fACUlTy of lAw 81

>Staff Exchanges and Networking 82

>International Visits, Conferences and Colloquia 82



>Student Opportunities 83

>Student Exchange Highlights 84

>Faculty Highlights 84

>Alumni Highlights 85

engineering And The bUilT

environmenT 86

>Staff and Students 87

>Departmental Initiatives and Highlights 87

> School of Architecture, Planning

and Geomatics 87

>Department of Chemical Engineering 88

>Department of Civil Engineering 88

> Department of Construction Economics

and Management 90

>Department of Electrical Engineering 90

>Department of Mechanical Engineering 90

CenTre for higher edUCATion

developmenT (Ched) 91

>Visitors 91


ConTACTs 94

>International Academic Programmes Office 94

>Faculty of Commerce 94

> Faculty of Engineering and the

Built Environment 94

>Faculty of Health Sciences 94

>Faculty of Humanities 94

>Faculty of Law 94

>Faculty of Science 94

>Graduate School of Business (GSB) 94

>Admissions Office 94

>Research Office 95

inTernATionAl ACAdemiC progrAmmes

offiCe sTAff members 95

UCT inTernATionAl sTUdenT sTATisTiCs

(See inside back cover)

Internationalisation and Afropolitanism share a common

transformation vision

as both have the potential to create greater diversity

on campus.

G R O U P P R O F I L E

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) ASPIRES TO BECOME A PREMIER ACADEMIC MEETING

POINT BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA, THE REST OF AFRICA AND THE WORLD. TAKING ADVANTAGE

OF EXPANDING GLOBAL NETWORKS AND OUR DISTINCT VANTAGE POINT IN AFRICA, WE ARE

COMMITTED, THROUGH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, TO GRAPPLING WITH

THE KEY ISSUES OF OUR NATURAL AND SOCIAL WORLDS. WE AIM TO PRODUCE GRADUATES

WHOSE QUALIFICATIONS ARE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND LOCALLY APPLICABLE,

UNDERPINNED BY VALUES OF ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. UCT WILL PROMOTE

DIVERSITY AND TRANSFORMATION WITHIN OUR INSTITUTION AND BEYOND, INCLUDING

GROWING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMICS.

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

U C T i A p o | I N T E R N A T I O N A L U C T 5


MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR

UCT, seen by many universities around the world as the gateway to the rest of Africa, has become a major attraction for international scholars, students and institutions. Yes, our academics had forged research relationships with overseas universities even during the years of political isolation, and students and scholars had visited our shores often over that period. But many of those engagements were, of necessity, of the informal kind.

Since the advent of democracy in our country, the university’s more formal collaborations, exchanges and partnerships have proliferated. And as international ranking after international ranking has illustrated, UCT has become arguably the foremost university on the continent.

It’s that growing status that we wanted to tap into when, some six years ago, shortly after I joined the university, we intensified our internationalisation strategy. Today it’s known around campus as Internationalisation with an Afropolitan Niche. That strategy and vision was designed to build on our increasing relationships with colleagues on the continent following South Africa’s return into the global fold.

Through formal policies, funding incentives and word of mouth, that strategy – and Afropolitanism as a concept and vision – has seeped into every corner of the university’s activities, be it research, teaching or even the services delivered by our support

AN 18TH ANNIVERSARY MAY SEEM LIkE AN Odd YEAR TO COMMEMORATE, ANd

IT PRObAbLY IS. bUT FOR INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT – FORMALISEd WITH THE

FOUNdINg OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO) IN 1996 –

THE YEAR 2014 WAS WORTH MARkINg. bUT IT WAS A bITTERSWEET COMMEMORATION.

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departments. Testimony to that can be found within the pages of this document.

Much of the credit should go to Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo. With charm, humour, logic and sheer tenacity, he willed Afropolitanism into a buzzword around campus. More than just a buzzword, in fact. He has helped make Afropolitanism reality, patiently arguing for its value and place at the institution.

Professor Nhlapo retired from the university at the end of July 2014 and left a solid legacy. Hence the bitter to the sweet of UCT’s growing international profile, and the unconventional timing of this publication.

Professor Nhlapo will be sorely missed, and the university owes him a great debt.

But Professor Nhlapo would also be the first to admit that internationalisation and Afropolitanism continues without him. Because the true drivers of internationalisation are our scholars, who day after day build networks and contacts throughout the world, often without fanfare. It is also our students, who crave international exposure and embrace wholeheartedly the opportunities now offered to them. It is also the handiwork of many of our support departments – not least IAPO and the Research Office – who work tirelessly to support the UCT mission.

This document is by no means a comprehensive chronicle of internationalisation at the university, but by offering this glimpse, we hope to capture the spirit and essence of just how and why the university’s global footprint is growing.

DR MAX PRICEVICE-CHANCELLOR

M e s s a g e f r o M t h e v i c e - c h a n c e l l o r


INTRODUCTION bY THE dEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR

To say that this is a watershed period in internationalisation globally is to say a lot of other things besides. When IAPO was established in 1996 with a staff of three under the leadership of Dr Lesley Shackleton, internationalisation in universities was seen largely as having to do with student exchanges. At UCT the project had an important history and context, following the country’s first tentative steps into the democratic fold in the early years of the decade. It is a history that saw Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Martin West, with the full backing of Dr Stuart Saunders, the Vice-Chancellor at the time, attending the meeting of the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Accra, Ghana, in 1993 to state the case for the re-integration of South African Universities into the continental academic family. With the visionary support of friends such as Professor Tom Tlou, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Botswana, the mission was a success and Martin West went on to negotiate UCT’s first

IT gIVES ME gREAT PLEASURE TO INTROdUCE INTERNATIONAL UCT, A PROjECT bY THE

INTERNATIONAL ACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO) TO RECORd FOR POSTERITY

THE PROgRESS ANd CURRENT STATE OF INTERNATIONALISATION AT THE UNIVERSITY

OF CAPE TOWN. THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY THIS IS AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT TO

PRESENT THIS SNAPSHOT. IN THE FIRST PLACE, THIS IS IN MANY SENSES A WATERSHEd

PERIOd IN INTERNATIONALISATION IN HIgHER EdUCATION gLObALLY, ANd ESPECIALLY

ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. SECONdLY, ANd LINkEd TO THE FIRST ObSERVATION,

UCT EMbARkEd ON A PROjECT TO SEIzE THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTEd bY gLObAL

dEVELOPMENTS TO SHARPEN ITS THINkINg ANd ITS POLICY UNdERPINNINgS TO

TAkE FULL ACCOUNT OF NEW REALITIES. THIRdLY, ANd FINALLY, THIS PRESENTATION

COINCIdES qUITE SNUgLY WITH THE ENd OF MY OWN TEN-YEAR TENURE IN THE

INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIO, gIVE OR TAkE A FEW MONTHS.

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African consortium of note, the Universities Science, Humanities, Law and Engineering Partnerships in Africa (USHEPiA) which has endured for many years as UCT’s flagship partnership on the continent.

At the time, USHEPiA consisted of the Universities of Botswana, Dar es Salaam, Makerere, Nairobi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, and UCT. IAPO had three staff members and the number of international students was unknown. By the next year, in 1997, the staff had increased to five and the international student component was officially recorded as 1630. 1998 saw the launch of the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programme with 152 students, mostly from North America. In the next years the operation grew by leaps and bounds, with international full-degree and semester students averaging a steady 20% of the total student population, so that at the 10th anniversary of IAPO in 2006 this number was 4 374 from over 100 countries. IAPO had 22 staff.

And now, 18 years later, internationalisation is a global phenomenon which goes vastly beyond the constrained boundaries of student exchange to encompass staff mobility, research collaboration, curriculum development, external examinership, co-badged qualifications and joint degrees. And not only that: internationalisation today acknowledges the influence of drivers which were simply not on the horizon a little over a decade ago, including the emergence of China as an ambitious player in higher education (as both an exporter of students hungry for a western education and an aggressive importer of expertise), and thoroughgoing reviews of funding models for higher education in Europe and in the United Kingdom which in many cases involved drastic reductions in state funding and the consequent hiking of tuition fees. Responses to these stimuli have been creative and varied, ranging from the establishment of foreign campuses by some of the world’s leading universities to the proliferation of online courses for free or for sale. Consolidation of brands in the form of mergers and consortia offering a co-taught curriculum and the award of joint degrees have been popular options, as has the scramble for PhD recruits and post-doctoral appointments.

All of these responses require friends abroad, and UCT continues to be a sought-after partner globally. And this is where the Afropolitan mission of the university is paying dividends. As a leading institution on the continent, it makes sense for UCT to enter into relationships with partners in the global north as it is already positioned as a gateway to fruitful south-south collaborations that create value for all parties concerned. A succession of funders are finding these kinds of configurations attractive: one simply has to consider the competitive projects that UCT and other South African universities have won from the European Union, for instance.

As for my own participation in these developments, it has been a singular honour to have had the opportunity to consolidate the position and profile of this great institution, continentally and globally. With the support of the Vice-Chancellor and the steadfast loyalty of IAPO, we have seen our university’s stature as a highly desirable international friend growing steadily, not only externally but also internally where appreciation for our role as a good continental citizen is now embedded in UCT culture in the form of Africa Month. Throughout all this, the fortunes of USHEPiA have more or less mirrored the growth and development of IAPO. Started as an office to service this fledging partnership, IAPO has grown into an adaptable instrument that has managed to keep USHEPiA alive through many financial challenges and changes of membership. The most recent cohort of the “new” USHEPiA is made up of graduate students from Dar es Salaam, Ghana, Makerere, Nairobi and Zambia. As we look forward to new challenges and new roles in the current internationalisation landscape, I would remind us all of the vision of the person who started it all, Martin West. USHEPiA’s resilience is as much a tribute to his vision as to anything I have been honoured to add in the interim. UCT now enters an era where internationalisation and research will be in closer alignment and the respective roles of the two enterprises more clearly defined. It is an exhilarating prospect, with UCT well-positioned by its historical experiences to make a success of this new adventure.

PROFESSOR THANDABANTU NHLAPODEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR

I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y T h e D e p U T Y v I C e - C h a N C e l l O R


THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) IS SOUTH AFRICA’S OLdEST UNIVERSITY, ANd IS

ONE OF AFRICA’S LEAdINg TEACHINg ANd RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. THE UNIVERSITY

WAS FOUNdEd IN 1829 AS THE SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEgE, A HIgH SCHOOL FOR bOYS.

THE COLLEgE HAd A SMALL TERTIARY-EdUCATION FACILITY THAT gREW SUbSTANTIALLY

AFTER 1880, ANd dEVELOPEd INTO A FULLY-FLEdgEd UNIVERSITY FROM 1880 TO 1900,

dUE TO INCREASEd FUNdINg FROM PRIVATE SOURCES ANd THE gOVERNMENT.

HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

By 2004, nearly half of UCT’s

20,000students were

black and just under half of the student

body was female.

Over this period, the South African College built its first dedicated science laboratories, and started the departments of mineralogy and geology. After the trial admission of four women in 1886, the College also began to admit women students permanently in 1887, in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The years 1902 to 1918 saw the establishment of a medical school, and the introduction of engineering courses and a department of education.

Finally, in 1918, UCT was formally established as a university, courtesy of a bequest by gold and diamond magnate Alfred Beit and substantial gifts from fellow mining moguls Julius Wernher and Otto Beit. The new university also attracted generous support from well-wishers in the Cape Town area and, for the first time, a significant state grant. Ten years later, in 1928, the university was able to move most of its facilities to its new Groote Schuur campus on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, land bequeathed to the country by Cecil John Rhodes as the site for a national university.

UCT would, over the following decades, establish itself as a leading research and teaching university. During this time Stellenbosch University, Wits University, and the University of

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The university views transformation as a multifaceted and integrated process by which it continuously renews itself in an ongoing effort to represent in all aspects of its life and functions the vision and ideals of its mission and values.

UCT TodAy

The university has six faculties: Commerce, Engineering and the Built Environment, Law, Health Sciences, Humanities and Science. These faculties are supported by the Centre for Higher Education Development, which addresses students’ teaching and learning needs.

UCT also has more than 60 specialist research units that provide supervision for postgraduate work. It is home to more than a quarter of South Africa’s A-rated researchers – academics who are considered world leaders in their fields.

Among its more than 100,000 alumni are the late Professor Christiaan Barnard, the world-renowned heart surgeon, and three Nobel laureates, Sir Aaron Klug, the late Professor Alan MacLeod Cormack, and JM Coetzee.

Pretoria also received university status, in 1918, 1922 and 1930, respectively.

From the 1960s to 1990s, UCT was nicknamed ‘Moscow on the Hill’, in reference to its sustained opposition to apartheid, particularly apartheid in higher education. The university admitted its first small group of black students in the 1920s, although the number of black students remained relatively low until the 1980s and 1990s. It was in the 1990s that the institution, embracing the forthcoming change in the country, committed itself to a deliberate and planned process of internal transformation. Over this period, the number of black students admitted to the university rose by 35 per cent. By 2004, nearly half of UCT’s 20,000 students were black and just under half of the student body was female. Today UCT has one of the most diverse campuses in South Africa.

TrAnsformATion

Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing and diversifying democratic society, UCT is implementing an action guide on transformation, looking at issues such as staff diversity, student equity and access, the curriculum, leadership and governance, and attitudes and behaviour.

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SINCE THE FOUNdINg OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT), INTERNATIONAL STUdENTS

ANd COLLAbORATIONS HAVE bEEN A FUNdAMENTAL PART OF THE UCT ExPERIENCE.

APARTHEId WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ISOLATINg UCT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

bUT, EVEN dURINg THIS PERIOd, UCT ENdEAVOUREd TO ENCOURAgE INTERNATIONAL

COLLAbORATIONS. IN THE EARLY 1990S, AS THE jOURNEY TOWARdS dEMOCRACY IN SOUTH

AFRICA bEgAN, UCT MAdE A CONCERTEd EFFORT TO ENgAgE WITH POTENTIAL PARTNERS

ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST dEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN 1994,

ANd ITS SUbSEqUENT EMERgENCE FROM SANCTION-bASEd ISOLATION, HERALdEd NEW

OPPORTUNITIES FOR UCT. THERE WAS A MARkEd INCREASE IN INTERNATIONAL INTEREST IN

VISITINg UCT ANd FORMINg LINkAgES ANd ExCHANgES.

HISTORY OF INTERNATIONALISATION

During 1994 and 1995 Dr Lesley Shackleton, who was to become the first director of the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO), was contracted to assist with the development of the University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa (USHEPiA) programme – an agreement with institutions in East and Southern Africa to develop the next generation of scholars on the continent. The university officially established IAPO in 1996, which was the same year in which the USHEPiA programme was officially launched. USHEPiA would, for many years, remain the university’s flagship international partnership, not just in Africa, but globally. IAPO’s staff grew by two that year, the second cohort of USHEPiA fellows were welcomed, IAPO published its first international student booklet, and the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE) signed an agreement with IAPO to host a study centre for study-abroad students at UCT. IAPO staff were welcomed to international conferences on internationalisation, and began to join strategic global organisations. In 1998, IAPO launched its Semester Study Abroad

(SSA) programme with 152 students, many from the United States of America (USA) and Europe. Formal welcoming and pre-registration processes were put in place for all international students.The number of international students continued to grow year by year – as did the size of IAPO, to keep up with the growing workload. The initial 1 630 students of 1997 quickly increased to over 2 000 in 1999, and by 2003 had reached the 3 000 mark, with students representing 92 countries. In addition, over 500 SSA students attended UCT. It became clear that, in line with changing national policy, UCT would have to define its internationalisation position.

Ten years after the establishment of IAPO, and two years after Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo was appointed as the university’s first Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) for International Relations, UCT launched its internationalisation policy in 2006. In this policy, UCT embraced internationalisation as a process that touches on teaching, research and service functions. The policy stated that ‘internationalisation affects curricula, teaching,

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research, administration, selection and promotion of staff, student recruitment, marketing, experiential learning through student and staff mobility, quality review, social responsiveness, and communication’. UCT adopted six key principles of internationalisation: excellence and mutual benefit; equity and institutional culture; a focus on UCT’s position in Africa particularly in respect of links and networks in the Southern African Development Community (SADC); research and academic autonomy; a curriculum benchmarked against international standards; and a set number of international students that would be accepted each year.

AfropoliTAnism

UCT became a sought-after destination for students from North America and Europe after the end of apartheid. This resulted in research networks and collaborations with countries in the Global North. As South Africa’s democracy became entrenched, the university’s focus shifted towards the African continent and South Africa’s immediate neighbours in the SADC region. The number of students at UCT who are from Africa and especially the SADC region has exceeded 2,000 every year since 2003.In 2005, IAPO hosted the university’s inaugural Africa Day celebrations and, in 2006, the first African student leadership exchange programme between UCT and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania was launched. By 2008, UCT’s new Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, had put a name to that vision – Afropolitanism. UCT readily adopted Afropolitanism as a strategic initiative, with DVC Nhlapo defining it as the university’s aspiration to embrace more meaningfully and more visibly its African identity and to play a significant continental role as one of Africa’s leading institutions.

Internationalisation and Afropolitanism share a common transformation vision as both have the potential to create greater diversity on campus and encourage curriculum development while impacting on the institutional climate at UCT. Additionally, Afropolitanism offers opportunities for redress by making it possible for UCT academics to travel throughout Africa on scholarly business. As with internationalisation, Afropolitanism aims to enrich UCT’s networks outside South Africa’s borders. These strategic alliances and partnerships

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have raised the university’s international profile and, when forged in the Global South, they have consolidated UCT’s position in the group of nations facing similar challenges, such as India, Brazil, China and Mexico, as well as other countries on the African continent. As global trends in donor funding change, UCT’s position as a gateway between the Global North and the Global South has attracted funding for research, student and staff exchanges, and regional and continental capacity-building initiatives.

Afropolitanism allows UCT to build on existing relationships around the continent. These already include several hundred research collaborations, countless capacity-building initiatives, informal research partnerships and structured partnerships. Many of these relationships are conducted in high-profile UCT units and institutes, while others are quietly continuing at departmental or individual level. Among these are joint research and publications, external examinerships, student exchanges and capacity-building programmes in curriculum design.

UCT has also been investing financially in its Afropolitan vision – about 50 per cent of the first round of awards made from the Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Fund, allocated in 2009/2010, was awarded to projects related to Afropolitanism. There are further initiatives that UCT plans to launch. These include offering special study modules and full degrees tailored to the needs of international students, developing course offerings in languages spoken on the continent, and creating virtual global classrooms for postgraduate seminars.


WELCOME FROM THE dIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)

IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INVITE YOU TO ENjOY INTERNATIONAL UCT, A PUbLICATION THAT

gIVES gLIMPSES INTO THE HIgHLIgHTS OF INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT.

In 2006, IAPO marked the department’s 10th anniversary with a publication where we focused specifically on the work done by IAPO. In this report we have instead adopted a broader approach and have thus included a section on strategic partnerships and programmes, many of which are collaboratively managed by iapo and the research office. You will also see reports from the faculties, which explore how the faculties engage with internationalisation.

As the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, notes in his foreword, this publication also marks the departure of Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo, who has since 2004 been responsible for internationalisation at the university. I would like to take this opportunity to thank and commend Professor Nhlapo for his contribution to internationalisation at UCT during his tenure.

I view my work and that of IAPO as a continuation of what has worked well over the past years. More specifically, our task is to align IAPO’s work with UCT’s Afropolitan vision. To achieve this we need to strengthen and extend our ties with the rest of the African continent, whilst maintaining our global position as Africa’s leading university.

The common vision that I as director share with my colleagues, is not only to uphold IAPO’s role for driving internationalisation at UCT, but also to renew and embed it into the academic enterprise of the university. Together, we shall strive to maintain UCT as a university that is used globally as a benchmark for internationalisation. This will take hard work and dedication, because internationalisation is an ever moving target.

This report is, as I have noted, a snapshot in time. During the past few months alone, new collaborations were formed, thousands of international students were welcomed, major bids were won, and new agreements and funding opportunities were negotiated.

International UCT is intended to be a celebration of internationalisation at UCT. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed compiling it.

PROFESSOR EVANCE KALULADIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE AND CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

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vision sTATemenT

The IAPO vision of Empowering Internationalisation at UCT is built on an understanding of the two pillars of IAPO’s contribution to internationalisation at UCT. The first, thought-leadership to develop policy, strategies and advice on key trends in internationalisation in order to enable IAPO and other units of the university to make appropriate, innovative and strategic decisions around internationalisation.

The second, the development and provision of effective tools for support and services to faculty, students, staff, visitors and the executive at UCT in order to maximise the extent to which internationalisation is an opportunity available to all at UCT and ensure that the university consistently produces graduates and staff equipped to be global citizens. The idea of empowerment implies the provision of information, support and advice that builds the capacity of others to maximise the opportunities they make available and the opportunities that are made available to them.

THE INTERNATIONAL ACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO) SEES ITSELF AS

EMPOWERINg INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT THROUgH THE PROVISION OF

THOUgHT-LEAdERSHIP ON RELEVANT dIMENSIONS OF ANd dEVELOPMENTS WITHIN

INTERNATIONALISATION AS WELL AS LEAdINg THE ESTAbLISHMENT OF EFFECTIVE

TOOLS ANd SPECIALISEd SUPPORT TO SERVICE THE NEEdS OF INTERNATIONALISATION

AT HOME ANd IN COMMUNITIES VISITINg THE UNIVERSITY. IAPO WILL UNdERTAkE

THIS WORk WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AN AFROPOLITAN AgENdA THAT INFORMS ANd IS

INFORMEd bY THE NEEdS OF TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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Vision Statement:

Empowering internationalisation

at UCT

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)


mission sTATemenT

The work of IAPO is elaborated across three fields – thinking (thought leadership), action (partnership models for implementation and service provision) and a channel (providing a central space for both internal and external engagement with internationalisation at an institutional level).

Mission Statement:

In the service of UCT’s strategic goals IAPO aims to be the thought-leader, partner

and first port of call on all matters pertaining to

internationalisation for the global higher education

community participating at UCT.

The work of IAPO is targeted at the global higher education community participating at UCT including professors, students (full degree and visiting), researchers, visitors and, professional and support staff. These beneficiaries are at times stakeholders and partners in the process of internationalisation but the identification of the full range of ‘clients’ will ensure that work streams and prioritisation takes place across this spectrum.

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The mission also talks to the benefit of IAPO’s work within the framework of its role in servicing the goals of the university as a whole. As the institutional home of internationalisation at UCT, IAPO will ensure

that the externalisation of internationalisation is built on and supported by internationalisation at home. The exchange of ideas and insights works from Africa out and from without into Africa through UCT.

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IAPO Internationalisation hub

Thought Leadership

Promulgating PolicyNetworked

Advocacy for Excellence

Effective Internationalisation

Tools

Specialised SupportInnovative Service Provision

GeneratingKnowledge

for Innovation

Developing Sustainable

Best Practice

Teaching

Foundational Ethos:Transformation through Afropolitan Agenda

Learning Research Advocacy


IAPO’S CORE SERVICES AND FUNCTIONS dIRECTORATE

The directorate comprises the following positions:

> Director: Internationalisation and UCT Confucius Institute

> PA to the director and Island Programmes Administrator

> Advisor: Special Projects> African Partnerships and Study Programmes

AfriCAn pArTnerships And sTUdy progrAmme

The African Partnerships and Study Programmes (APSP) section is responsible for developing and maintaining partnerships and programmes that strengthen UCT’s academic integration with other African universities with the aim to deepen UCT’s Afropolitan focus. In addition, APSP focuses on developing, implementing and

The international student body comprises

approximately

4 000full degree students

THE dIRECTOR LEAdS IAPO IN EMPOWERINg INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT bY

ALLOWINg IAPO TO bROAdEN ITS FOCUS ON INTERNATIONALISATION ACROSS THE FULL

RANgE OF UCT’S HIgHER EdUCATION ENdEAVOURS – TEACHINg, LEARNINg, RESEARCH

ANd AdVOCACY. THE dIRECTOR WORkS WITH THE IAPO MANAgEMENT TEAM ANd

THE IAPO ExCO TO ALIgN IAPO’S ACTIVITIES TO THE gOALS OF UCT, ESPECIALLY

INTERNATIONALISATION VIA AN AFROPOLITAN NICHE. THE SPECIAL PROjECTS AdVISOR

FORMS PART OF THE dIRECTORATE ANd PROVIdES ExECUTIVE-LEVEL ASSISTANCE

TO THE dIRECTOR FOR Ad HOC, SPECIAL PROjECTS WITH INTERNAL OR ExTERNAL

STAkEHOLdERS. THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT (PA) PROVIdES AdMINISTRATIVE ANd

PERSONAL ASSISTANT SERVICES TO THE dIRECTOR ANd IS ALSO RESPONSIbLE FOR

COORdINATINg THE IAPO ISLANd PROgRAMMES.

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monitoring UCT’s internationalisation policy with respect to Africa. The aim of strengthening UCT’s academic integration with the rest of Africa is achieved by managing existing African academic partnership programmes as well as implementing strategic programmes. Moreover, APSP aims to maximise co-operation within the higher education sector in Africa by facilitating visits and building strategic links with African academics and students across the continent. APSP has collated a database of partnerships that will serve as a basis for UCT in making decisions on future African initiatives.

The section further provides a wide range of support and services to international full degree students and Post-Doctoral Research Fellows (PDRF). The international student body comprises of around 4 000 full degree students and PDRFs from approximately 110 countries and each year between 350 to 500 new full degree students and PDRFs enrol at UCT.

The staff complement in APSP comprises:

> Manager: African Partnerships and Study Programmes

> International Student Co-ordinator> International Student Advisor> International Student Administrator> Co-ordinator: African Partnerships

and Programmes> Programme Officer: African Partnerships and

Programmes> Administrative Assistant: African Partnerships

and Programmes> Co-ordinator: MasterCard Foundation

Scholar Program> Recruitment and Peer Mentor Officer:

MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program> Finance and Program Administrator: MasterCard

Foundation Scholars Program

ConfUCiUs insTiTUTe

The Confucius Institute (CI) at the University of Cape Town promotes the learning of Chinese language and culture, and a broader and more informed understanding of China at UCT, in the greater Cape Town area and across South Africa.

i a p o ’ s c o r e s e r v i c e s a n d f u n c t i o n s

In light of the ever-growing business and trade relations between China and South Africa, the demand for learning Chinese is greater.

Cape Town, both as a beautiful scenic city and a hub of business, will play more important roles in the ties between China and South Africa. Officially launched in January 2010, the establishment of the CI at UCT is a big step forward in transformation at UCT in that it brings the Chinese language program to UCT and facilitates academic exchanges between students and faculty members at UCT with those at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China. The year 2014 celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the first CI in the world and also saw UCT’s CI enter its fifth year in operation.

The staff complement in the CI comprises:

> Chinese Director> Administrator> Four Volunteer Teachers


finAnCe

The Finance Section has a dual responsibility:

> to Central Finance - adhering to a reporting structure covering monthly, quarterly, midyear and annual results; and ensuring the implementation of financial guidelines and policies

> to IAPO – providing cross-sectional financial expertise and guidance in line with strategic objectives; and ensuring tight controls on actual expenditure vs budget.

The key financial responsibilities are divided into two categories:

1. Continuing Financial Operations: Managing an ever-growing operational budget in access of R20m; and revenue generation in excess of R25m. The operational budget plays an integral role in achieving strategic success both internally and externally. Driving internationalisation globally and on the African continent demands sound business acumen and tight financial controls, which is not possible without institutional financial support. IAPO flagship international programmes such as the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programme, the International Full Degree (IFD) programme and the SADC student intake provides the foundation for revenue generation. UCT’s intention to grow these programmes via robust recruitment drives in order to complement the revenue stream from IAPO’s strategic partners will be a significant boost to the university.

2. Non Continuing Financial Operations: IAPO Finance manages and prepares all financial related data and documentation for a multitude of donors. The financial checklist is quite exhaustive but not negotiable as IAPO Finance ensures that the esteemed reputation of the university remains intact. The funding UCT receives from donors enables the university to deliver on key strategic goals and objectives, especially in the development of research and postgraduate education.

IAPO’s commitment to student mobility, exchange programmes and providing opportunities for tertiary

education to communities in need would not be possible without the generous contributions from donors. Ensuring proper disclosure and utilisation of funds for what it was intended is a major responsibility of the IAPO Finance team. It further enhances the reputation of our university, and creates opportunities for future endeavours. The staff complement in the Finance section comprises of:

> Manager: Finance> Assistant Finance Manager> Four Finance Officers

mobiliTy pArTnerships And progrAmmes

One of the largest contingents of exchange and semester abroad students received at UCT is received through the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programme. The growth of the SSA programme has resulted in UCT having the biggest study abroad programme in South Africa. Since the start of the SSA programme, when UCT hosted 152 students in 1998, SSA enrolment has increased to 972 students in 2014 from more than 65 partner institutions around the world. Many students come independently, too, as ‘free movers’. UCT is considered a prime destination for SSA students, owing to its location in Africa and the academic reputation of the university, as well as the reputation of the SSA programme, and the fact that courses are taught in English. Mobility Partnerships and Programmes (MPP) welcomes the SSA and exchange students with a vibrant and intensive two-week orientation programme that initiates students into campus and city life. MPP also provides 24/7 emergency support and works with a wide range of partners in South Africa and abroad.

MPP supports UCT student mobility to UCT’s partner institutions abroad and maintains reciprocal exchange linkages that facilitate these exchanges. Other services offered by MPP include: planning itineraries and facilitating meetings for international visitors and delegations, establishing and maintaining partnerships with international universities; and signing and maintaining memoranda of understanding with partner institutions.

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From the date of joining the Worldwide University Network in 2009, until January 2015, the manager of MPP was UCT’s Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) coordinator. MPP supported the WUN steering group at UCT and arranged major WUN-related events, such as the annual general meeting of all 17 partner universities, which was held in Cape Town in March 2014.

MPP has administered a number of Erasmus Mundus Action 2 student and staff mobility programmes since 2009, including the EMA2SA, EU-SATURN, INSPIRE and EUSA-ID programmes. Staff in the section also prepare bids for funding for these and similar programmes.

The MPP staff complement comprises:

> Manager: Mobility Programmes and Partnerships> Co-ordinator: Student Life and Exchanges> Exchanges Officer> Administrator: Partnerships and Visits> Administrator: Housing> Coordinator: SSA Academic> Four Study Abroad Programme Officers

sysTems, CommUniCATion And informATion

The Systems, Communication and Information (SCI) section of IAPO comprises of four main



areas namely: Front Office; Communications and Marketing; International Visits; and Systems & Information.

The Front Office welcomes local and international visitors and students to UCT. This includes responding to large numbers of e-mails, telephonic queries and drop-in visitors. The Front Office is responsible for maintaining the upkeep of all office equipment; transporting staff, students and visitors to specific meetings and events; and liaising with stakeholders within and outside UCT to respond to requests for information.

The Communications and Marketing area publicises the work of IAPO and maintains strong internal and external stakeholder relationships. IAPO has a vibrant social media presence on Facebook and Twitter. IAPO’s marketing strategy includes digitising all IAPO’s information booklets on branded USBs, distributing biannual and monthly e-newsletters, creating and maintaining the new IAPO website, actively participating in UCT events and compiling IAPO publications and reports. IAPO strives to maintain a bold and strategic presence at on- and off campus events. Events include the Teaching and Learning Conference, Parent’s Orientation, UCT Open Day and African Month events.

The international visits area moved into the SCI section in October 2014. The visits were previously administrated by the APSP and MPP. The demand for visits has rapidly increased by 53% in volume in 2014. The Systems and Information area strategically aligns in-house IAPO systems with institution-wide UCT systems and sources key information for the IAPO Management Team. This area is also responsible for the project management of the pre-registration process at UCT. There are various internal UCT systems as well as external systems that SCI uses to automate processes or present information. One of these systems is the UCT Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system which IAPO is using to automating most of its processes. The new CRM assists with the following:

> Partnerships and Links - which includes the storage of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)

> International visits

> Pre-registration> Office and resource administration> Stakeholder communication

The SIC portfolios are:

> Manager: Systems, Communication & Information

> Coordinator: Marketing and Communication> International Visits Assistant> Two Front Office Liaisons > Front Office Assistant

shorT Term inTernATionAl progrAmmes (sTip)

IAPO hosts a range of Short Term International Programmes (STIP), initially developed by CHED, but located within IAPO since January 2014.The primary objectives of STIP are to broaden the range of short courses offered in collaboration with our partners both in the global north and the rest of Africa, and to create an operating surplus specifically designated for providing financial support to outbound UCT students participating in international exchange programmes. These programmes are also undertaken in close cooperation with UCT academics and other units such as the Centre for Open Learning. These programmes are provided to higher education providers. STIP are customised for each client institution, and cover a broad range of client requirements.

The STIP portfolios are:

> Manager: Short Term International Programmes> Administrator> SCEZONS: partner provider for research and

programme support

iApo’s Core serviCes

> Establishes and maintains partnerships with leading universities worldwide

> Promotes the Afropolitan vision by initiating agreements with African universities

> Coordinates funded consortium mobility programmes with African and worldwide partners

> Welcomes nearly 5 000 international students to UCT every year

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> Organises exchange and scholarship programmes for students to study abroad

> Runs orientation programmes for new international students

> Runs the pre-registration process for all international students

> Assists students with finding short- and long-term accommodation

> Assists students with study permit renewals> Provides certain financial services> Runs the Semester Study Abroad (SSA)

programme> Works closely with student leadership structures

and sponsors certain international student societies’ events

> Promotes and facilitates exchange opportunities for UCT students. These include:

> IAPO General Exchanges: UCT students in their first year of undergraduate studies and those doing their Master’s or doctoral studies (minimum two-year programme) may apply

to go on a semester exchange to one of our partner universities in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom or Australia.

> Erasmus Mundus: South Africans with a Bachelor’s degree may apply for a semester exchange or to complete a full degree at a European university, participating in one of the following programmes: EMA2SA, EUSATURN, EUROSA+, EUSA_ID, AESOP, and Intra-ACP. See www.uct.ac.za/about/iapo/erasmusmundus for further information.

` > Special Exchanges: First-year female students in the Humanities and Science faculties can apply for a semester exchange at Barnard College in New York. At the end of 2015, this funding will come to an end after a successful five-year partnership. Master’s and doctoral students may apply for the Sidgwick-Miller or Fox scholarships for a year-long research exchange at the University of Michigan and Yale University.



INTERNATIONALISATION HIGHLIGHTS

2014 2013 > The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) annual general

meeting was hosted in Cape Town by UCT from 31 March to 3 April. As part of the WUN annual general meeting, the following workshops were facilitated:

> The WUN Resilience in Young People/Adolescents Working Group Workshop was held from 27 to 28 March.

> The WUN Global Challenges Conference: Public Health and Climate Change was held from 28 to 30 March.

> The third WUN In-FLAME Annual Workshop was held from 30 to 31 March.

> The WUN Migration and Health working group meeting was held on 31 March.

> The USHEPiA Programme Vice Chancellors attend the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) African presidents meeting in Cape Town during the WUN conference.

> The Confucius Institute moved from the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) to the International Academic Programmes Office. The Chinese director is Associate Professor Shengyong Qin and the South African director is Professor Evance Kalula.

> IAPO’s Director, Professor Evance Kalula represents UCT at the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) in Livingstone, Zambia from 3-5 March.

> The ARISE Programmes’ first scholar enrols at the University of Cape Town.

> UCT signs a funding agreement with the MasterCard Foundation, assuring USD$23 million in scholarships for disadvantaged African students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, to be offered over the next 10 years. More than 300 students from across the continent will benefit from the MasterCard Scholars Program.

> UCT holds its 3rd campus wide Africa Month celebration during May, with over 40 events, including sports, seminars, master classes, debates, a food fair, presentations and exhibitions.

> The IAPO Mobility Centre was established as a hub for student and staff mobility. This centre is shared with study abroad partners Arcadia, International Study Abroad (ISA), and the Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad (IES).

> UCT joined the Erasmus Mundus funded mobility programme INSPIRE as a full member.

> UCT enrolled 972 SSA students.

> UCT enrolled just under 5 000 international students

> UCT was awarded funding by the MasterCard Foundation to provide undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship opportunities to economically disadvantaged students from the African continent at UCT, under the theme ‘Developing First Generation African Professionals’.

> UCT awarded its first Africa Regional International Staff/Student Exchange (ARISE) scholarships to successful applicants. The ARISE programme will facilitate staff and student mobility between ARISE partner universities.

> UCT became a member of the Postgraduate Academic Mobility for African Physician Scientists (PAMAPS) and Entrepreneurship, Resources, Management Innovation and Technology (ERMIT) programmes, which are EU-funded Intra-ACP programmes for student and staff mobility.

> UCT joined the Erasmus Mundus funded mobility programme EUSA_ID as a partner university, in Target Group 1.

> The first London School of Economics / University of Cape Town July School was held at UCT.

> UCT sent 54 students on semester exchange to partner universities: 15 postgraduates and 39 undergraduates.

> The second Africa Month celebration was held at UCT during May, with 38 events, including sports, seminars, master classes, debates, a food fair, presentations and exhibitions.

> IAPO participated in the following on-campus events: Open Day, Parents’ Orientation, the EMA2SA Upper Campus Roadshow, and the Africa Month exhibition.

> IAPO was re-branded with a new logo and marketing materials, and marketing and communication materials were digitised.

> The World @ UCT newsletter was re-launched in html format.

> IAPO supported executive delegations to Brazil, the USA and Germany to foster relationships with university and network partners.

> The manager of MPP was invited to speak at the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference, to present a paper at the NAFSA conference on the topic of ‘International Network Partnerships’, and to display a poster at the Going Global conference.

> The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system was developed, enabling UCT to assist IAPO with the following processes: tracking international partnerships, links and visits; storing Memoranda of Understanding

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2013 2012(MoU) and other documents electronically; expediting the pre-registration process; SSA administration; Front Office administration; Invoicing; Off campus accommodation; and the roll-out of “Partnerships and Links” module

> Online applications introduced for SSA students applying for the first semester of 2014

> IAPO’s annual social responsibility activities:

> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to children in need and the elderly for Christmas.

> For the Mandela Day 67 Minutes initiative, IAPO was part of a drive to make and deliver 461 lunch packs to children at the Garden Village School.

> UCT enrolled 979 semester study abroad and exchange students.

> UCT enrolled 4 930 international students.

> Dr Loveness Kaunda retired after six years of service as director of IAPO.

> Professor Evance Kalula is appointed as the new IAPO director.

> UCT hosted the 16th annual International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference. The director launched a special interest group, ‘Internationalisation of the Curriculum’, at the conference.

> UCT was selected to lead the African consortium in the ARISE bid. ARISE is an EU-funded intra-ACP programme, which offers a grant of €2 million, for staff and graduate student mobility in Africa.

> UCT was promoted to the position of South African coordinator for the EMA2SA consortium (www.ema2sa.eu)

> UCT joined the EU-SATURN consortium, for staff and graduate student mobility between South Africa and Europe (www.eu-saturn.eu/). IAPO worked with the Centre for Open Learning to develop the cooperative 2013 July School with the London School of Economics.

> IAPO led its first highly successful Africa Month festival, which was upsized from the annual one-day Africa Month Day festivities. This month long extravaganza consisted of 24 events in the form of lectures, seminars, exhibitions and performances. A few key highlights include the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, the Law Faculty’s ‘Afropolitan Through Fabric’ fashion show, the Exuberance Project by the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts, the Plaza Event hosted by the Students Representative Council, the Africa collaborations exhibition in the Baxter Theatre and various other scholarly debates and seminars.

> The DVC led a delegation to East Africa and the Great Lakes in the 2nd year of the annual Afropolitan visits programme.

> IAPO participated in the following on-campus events: Open Day, Parents’ Orientation, the EMA2SA Upper Campus Roadshow, and the Africa Month exhibition.

> IAPO’s social responsibility activities:

> IAPO staff donated equipment to the Christine Revell Children’s Home in Athlone.

> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to children in need for Christmas.

> IAPO participated in the Mandela Day 67 Minutes initiative.





2011 2010 > The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) internal

steering group was established at UCT.

> UCT joined the EMA2SA Erasmus consortium, for staff and graduate student mobility between South Africa and Europe (www.ema2sa.eu).

> IAPO hosted the WUN Understanding Cultures meeting, together with HUMA, at UCT.

> IAPO hosted the WUN Global Health conference in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), together with the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), at UCT.

> An internationalisation video was launched, showcasing UCT as an international university (http://youtu.be/1455pk_Tr94).

> IAPO published an independent review of the international full degree student experience at UCT, entitled ‘Evaluating the Impact and Value of the International Full Degree Students at the University of Cape Town’ (http://www.uct.ac.za/usr/iapo/apply/RevisedFinalIFDReport(vFINAL2_SJ-JT_21Feb11).pdf)

> IAPO facilitated more than 100 visits to UCT from around the world.

> The IAPO offices relocated to Level three of the Masingene Building on UCT Middle Campus.

> IAPO hosted its first spring braai event. This is an annual event that provides international students with the opportunity to socialise outside the classroom environment.

> IAPO successfully lobbied the Department of Home Affairs to allow international students with pending visa applications to register.

> Two IAPO staff members are elected to IEASA’s Management Council and Directors’ Forum.


> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to children in need for Christmas.



> The intake of Semester Study Abroad (SSA) students is the largest, at 1 026, since the programme began in 1999, with fewer than 150 SSA students.

> IAPO received an IEASA Golden Key award for best collaborative initiative between the international office and international students.

> IAPO published an independent review on the strategic impact and value of the SSA programme (http://www.uct.ac.za/usr/iapo/news/IAPO%20SSA%20Final%20Report%20(16April10).pdf)


> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to orphaned children for Christmas.

> UCT enrolled 1 026 semester study abroad and exchange students.


2009 > IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for

Excellence in Internationalisation in the category ‘International Students as a Percentage of Total Student Registrations’.

> The USHEPiA planning group visited all partner universities as part of its review.

> UCT joined the Worldwide Universities Network, a global network of 17 of the world’s leading research universities.


> UCT enrolled 4,307 international students.

2008 > IAPO launched its newsletter, World @ UCT.

> IAPO and the Department of Student Affairs established the SRC International Students’ Forum.

> The Rockefeller Foundation funded the strategic review for the future of USHEPiA.

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2008

2007

2006 2004

2005 > Six USHEPiA fellows graduated with PhDs, and one fellow

received a Master’s degree.



> UCT, together with the Department of Home Affairs, hosted an immigration legislation awareness seminar at UCT for Western Cape institutions.

> The Eric Abrahams Academic Visitorships programme was launched for scholars at risk.



> Dr Loveness Kaunda started her first year of tenure as director of IAPO.

> IAPO established the International Management Advisory Group (IMAG) to advise, and to be a policy reference group for, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor on Internationalisation at UCT.

> IAPO celebrated its 10th anniversary. See http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/iapo/10years_internat pdf.

> UCT’s Internationalisation Policy was launched.

> The first Semester Study Abroad in Africa programme between UCT and the University of Dar es Salaam was launched, called the UCT/UDSM African Leadership Exchange Programme.

> IAPO welcomed 418 SSA students in the first semester, which was the highest number of SSA students registered in one semester, with a total of 673 SSA students for the year.


> Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor with portfolio responsibility for International Relations, at UCT.

> IAPO hosted the eighth IEASA conference at UCT.

> IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Excellence in Internationalisation in the category ‘International Student Exchange Programme’.

> IAPO co-ordinated more than 30 inter-institutional memoranda of understanding and helped to facilitate a further 42 UCT departmental and faculty agreements.

> IAPO welcomed 579 semester study abroad and exchange students.

> The total number of international students was 3 908.

> IAPO co-ordinated its first ‘Africa Day’ celebrations. The aim of this event was to enhance the institutional culture of UCT, by using human, intellectual and material resources to give expression to the university’s Afropolitan vision.

> IAPO processed fees for more than 1 000 full degree international students, of non-SADC origin.

> IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Excellence in Internationalisation in the category ‘Quality Information for International Students’.

> IAPO co-ordinated its first Refugee Students’ Summit, attended by refugee students from institutions in the Western Cape.

> The USHEPiA programme had awarded 21 PhDs and 6 Master’s degrees since its inception.

> UCT registered 4,374 international students from 96 countries. Full degree students numbered 3 219, and there are 709 SSA students.


and Programmes

01STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

The InTernaTIonal academIc Programmes offIce (IaPo)

has as ITs core busIness To facIlITaTe and PromoTe all

faceTs of InTernaTIonalIsaTIon aT ucT.

THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO) HAS AS ITS CORE BUSINESS TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE ALL FACETS OF INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT

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A MAjOR AFROPOLITAN INITIATIVE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) IS ITS

CURRENT MEMbERSHIP OF THE AFRICA REgIONAL INTERNATIONAL STAFF/STUdENT

ExCHANgE (ARISE) PROgRAMME. UCT IS ONE OF THE PROgRAMME’S PARTNER

INSTITUTIONS ANd THE CO-ORdINATINg INSTITUTION FOR ARISE.

AFRICA REgIONAL INTERNATIONAL STAFF/

STUdENT ExCHANgE PROgRAMME

The programme is the result of the ambitious Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, which aims to promote co-operation between higher education institutions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP regions) and support mobility in these regions. More specifically, the scheme aims to increase access to quality education, thus enabling ACP students to undertake postgraduate studies, and to promote student retention in the region along with mobility of staff (academic and administrative), while increasing the competitiveness and attractiveness of the institutions themselves.

The primary funder of the scheme is the European Development Fund, which provided €40 million for the initiative. A further €5 million was provided by the South African government through the African Union’s Mwalimu Nyerere programme for Africa, a flagship project of the AU.

In 2012, UCT received funding from the Intra-ACP Mobility Scheme to partner with other institutions on the continent to start the ARISE programme. The ARISE partner institutions are the University of Cape Town (South Africa, co-ordinating institution), Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Nairobi (Kenya), the National University of Rwanda (Rwanda) and the University of Ghana, Legon

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(Ghana). ARISE’s technical partner is the University of Leuven (Belgium) and the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) serves as an associate partner.

The aim of ARISE is to support sustainable development and poverty alleviation by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional personnel in African countries. It does so by funding postgraduate studies, as well as opportunities for student and staff exchanges, within and between partner countries and institutions. ‘Food Security and Sustainable Human Wellbeing’

s t r a t e g i c p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d p r o g r a m m e s

was selected as a theme in response to the pressing Millennium Development Goals. The focus areas for the programme are agriculture, energy, engineering and the medical sciences.

ARISE will offer 100 mobility opportunities. Awards take the form of full-degree scholarships for Master’s and doctoral students, short-term exchanges and opportunities for academic and administrative staff mobility. The first 41 scholarships were awarded in 2013.

www.intra-acp-arise.org

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THE UNIVERSITIES SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, LAW ANd ENgINEERINg PARTNERSHIPS IN

AFRICA (USHEPA) PROgRAMME HAS bEEN UCT’S FLAgSHIP COLLAbORATION INITIATIVE

IN AFRICA SINCE THE EVE OF dEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

UNIVERSITIES SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, LAW ANd ENgINEERINg PARTNERSHIPS IN AFRICA

USHEPiA’s origins can be traced back to 1992, when the Association of African Universities (AAU) first began to recognise South African universities, once the international isolation South Africa had experienced during apartheid had ended.At this time UCT started talks with universities in southern and east Africa in an attempt to build new partnerships, and arranged a meeting that brought together 21 Vice-Chancellors and Deans for discussions. These talks resulted in a 1994 memorandum of understanding (MoU) between eight African universities, namely, the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa; the University of Botswana (UB); the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania; the University of Nairobi (UON), Kenya; the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya; Makerere University (MU), Uganda; the University of Zambia (UNZA); and the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The aim of the MOU was to investigate the possibility of a capacity development programme for African academia, as many African institutions were suffering the ongoing brain drain of young academics, lured to institutions elsewhere in the world.

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The USHEPiA programme was officially launched in 1996, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. The aim was to offer postgraduate fellowships to staff members from all eight universities interested in pursuing Master’s and doctoral studies in the sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences. The programme took on a split-site structure, incorporating both home and away supervisors for each student. This ensured that the topic of research would be of benefit to the home country and not only the host institution.

At the end of the 2009 financial year, the funding was not renewed, as the donors were shifting their focus to the sponsorship of contemporary academic initiatives. At an USHEPiA Vice-Chancellors’ board meeting, the members decided that the USHEPiA model was too valuable to abandon and opted to self-fund the programme. The current partners are UDSM, UCT, the University of Ghana, MU, UON and UNZA.

By the end of 2013 – with seven fellows on board – USHEPiA had capped two Master’s and 53 doctoral graduates in the 17 years of its existence. To mark the closing of the donor-funded model, the programme will hosted an alumni celebration in 2014. This event aimed, in part, to follow up with alumni and gauge how USHEPiA has shaped the careers of these African scholars following their participation in the programme.

So influential and path-breaking has USHEPiA been that today it serves as the blueprint for other similar initiatives at UCT. Key to its success have been close consultations between members, agreement on the programme’s objectives, high-level co-operative management with strong local management and support, and a flexible fellowship model that tailors the fellowship to the needs of the students and supervisors. Another critical factor has been the programme’s ‘enthusiasm principle’ – energetic support from institutions and administrators.

www.ushepia.uct.ac.za



THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) jOINEd THE WORLdWIdE UNIVERSITIES NETWORk

(WUN) IN OCTObER 2009, IN LINE WITH THE UNIVERSITY’S INTERNATIONALISATION

STRATEgY. IN bEINg ACCEPTEd AS A MEMbER OF WUN – A COLLECTION OF 17 RESEARCH-

INTENSIVE UNIVERSITIES – UCT bECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN PARTNER IN THE gLObAL

CONSORTIUM, jOININg INSTITUTIONS IN AUSTRALASIA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA ANd

SOUTH-EAST ASIA.

WORLDWIDE UNIVERSITIES NETWORk

of Global Challenges, looking at four thematic challenges – climate change, understanding cultures, global higher education and research, and public health and non-communicable diseases.

Founded in 2000, WUN sought to create a global research community that responds to global needs and challenges. To address these ‘issues of global significance’, the network runs a programme

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WUN’s projects comprise more than 90 active initiatives in the arts, the humanities, social sciences, engineering, science, health and medicine. International research collaborations are fostered by a developed global support framework that pools the resources of its members towards research under its four themes.

Through its Research Development Fund, WUN reinvests a significant proportion of member subscription fees into seeding sustainable, international research collaborations. More than 1 000 faculty and graduate students are actively engaged in WUN initiatives, with many more taking part in a vibrant schedule of conferences, workshops and virtual seminars.

In 2012, two research development grants were made to two projects led by UCT scholars. The first of these went to Professor Naomi Levitt, head of the Division of Diabetic Medicine and Endocrinology, and senior medical officer Dr Tolullah Oni, for their study on non-communicable/communicable disease syndemics (interaction) in transitional societies. Dr Celeste de Jager of the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine is looking into the prevalence and impact of dementia in low-income areas in South Africa as part of the second WUN grant.

Other WUN-related activities by UCT included a WUN colloquium on the epidemiological overlap between infectious and non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries and the health-system implications, hosted by Levitt and Oni in 2013. The 2014 Annual General Meeting of the network was held in Cape Town in April. In the run-


up to the meeting, UCT staged several WUN-related events, including a joint conference on public health and climate change and a workshop on inflammatory non-communicable diseases.

Dr Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of UCT, recently took over the reins as chair of the Partnership Board of WUN. At the AGM conference dinner in March, he outlined the collective vision of the organisation, revealing that WUN aims to increase its membership to 25 universities over the next five years. He pointed out that WUN had no members from South America and membership gaps in, among other regions, Africa, South East Asia, central Europe and mainland China. ‘By increasing our spread we establish ourselves as a network that tackles world issues,’ he explained.

Price observed that WUN members ensured their students were prepared for an increasingly globalised world by facilitating student mobility and by generating large research grants that can sustain cross-continental, cross-institutional research projects. Price added that the network played a crucial role in the development of leadership, explaining that university leaders were able to ‘draw on the wisdom of (their) peers’.

Occasions such as the AGM, which brought together all members of WUN, advance the university’s strategic objective on ‘Internationalisation with an Afropolitan Niche’ by linking WUN partners with universities in Africa. They also strengthen UCT’s growing role and standing in WUN.

www.wun.ac.uk


POLITICAL INSTAbILITY ANd INSUFFICIENT FUNdINg OPPORTUNITIES FRUSTRATE THE

AMbITIONS OF MANY SCHOLARS IN AFRICA. IN 2007, IN AN ATTEMPT TO ASSIST SUCH

AT-RISk SCHOLARS FROM THE CONTINENT ANd ELSEWHERE, UCT ANd THE Uk-bASEd

SIgRId RAUSINg TRUST ESTAbLISHEd THE ERIC AbRAHAM REFUgEE SCHOLARSHIPS,

AS A bURSARY FUNd FOR REFUgEE SCHOLARS, ANd THE ERIC AbRAHAM ACAdEMIC

VISITORSHIPS (EAAV).

SCHOLARS AT RISk

Many of these scholars – mostly women – are at risk because of a lack of resources and government support in their home countries, and include academics defined as ‘at risk’ by the New York-based Scholars at Risk organisation. The main objectives of the funding are to promote African research in areas where either the research topic or the researcher is at risk, to enable talented but disenfranchised academics to bring their research into the global

arena, and to promote the opportunity for ongoing collaborative African research projects and interactions at UCT. Recipients include scholars from Ethiopia, Iraq, Nigeria, the Philippines and Uganda, among others. The six-year grant, which ran until 2014, was valued at UK£342,000.

www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/grantees/University-of-Cape-Town-Trust

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THE ORgANISATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE FOR THE dEVELOPINg WORLd (OWSd)

IS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FORUM TO UNITE EMINENT WOMEN SCIENTISTS FROM

THE dEVELOPINg ANd dEVELOPEd WORLdS. THE ObjECTIVE OF THE ORgANISATION –

bASEd AT THE OFFICES OF THE ACAdEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE dEVELOPINg WORLd

(TWAS) IN TRIESTE, ITALY – IS TO STRENgTHEN THE ROLE OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS ANd TO

PROMOTE THEIR REPRESENTATION IN SCIENTIFIC ANd TECHNOLOgICAL LEAdERSHIP.

ORGANISATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE FOR THE dEVELOPINg WORLd

The OWSD’s flagship programme is the Postgraduate Training Fellowships for Women Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDC) at Centres of Excellence in the South, which creates funding opportunities for women scientists to commence postgraduate studies leading to a PhD. The University of Cape

Town (UCT) first joined the programme in 2007, when three UCT students (from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) received fellowships. The agreement was renewed in 2012 and, to date, 19 fellowships have been awarded to UCT students.

owsd.ictp.it



A LEAdERSHIP dEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP bETWEEN UCT, THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT

HARE ANd THE UNIVERSITY OF VENdA bEgAN IN 2013, TWO YEARS AFTER IT WAS

FIRST PROPOSEd.

TRILATERAL AGREEMENT A LEAdERSHIP dEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP bETWEEN UCT, THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE ANd THE UNIVERSITY OF VENdA

The outcome of the trilateral agreement is intended to be the development of strong academic leaders through the collaborative generation of new knowledge and expertise. The main focus of the agreement is capacity development, although it is hoped that the partnership will also serve as a platform for further teaching and research collaborations. Joint supervision is a key element in the programme, which takes on a split-site format (students are assigned two supervisors: one at UCT, the other

at their home institution). One tangible target envisioned by the partnership is the graduation of 12 doctoral students by the end of 2018.

In addition to their academic work, the senior academics also participate in committee work, teach, attend conferences, take part in journal clubs and round-table discussions, and are encouraged to develop a holistic sense of academia. The focus remains on leadership development at an executive level.

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THE AUSTRALIA-AFRICA UNIVERSITIES NETWORk FOCUSES ENgAgEMENT OF

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES IN SUb-SAHARAN AFRICA TO ENAbLE THE PROVISION OF

SPECIFIC ExPERTISE ACROSS AREAS OF PRIORITY FOR AUSTRALIA ANd AFRICA.

AUSTRALIA-AFRICA UNIVERSITIES NETWORk

Key objectives for the network are:

> Provide an intelligence and advisory portal for government institutions, the corporate sector and media to access, via a ‘one-stop-shop’, a range of expertise on Africa.

> Develop institutional research partnerships on Africa.

> Develop capacity building and training programmes, for example, in governance, public sector reform, education, mining, agriculture and health.

> Produce innovative policy solutions through position papers with key academics, non-government organisations, business and political representatives.

> Provide post-training support for African scholars, including an alumni network, linking with African communities in Australia as appropriate.

The Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) comprises leading universities in Australia and Africa,

and brings together researchers and academics through institutional partnerships in which they seek to address challenges facing both continents. The network is led by Professor John Hearn of the University of Sydney and Professor Cheryl de la Rey of the University of Pretoria (formerly of the University of Cape Town), and builds on current educational links between the continents. One objective of the network is to develop capacity building and training programmes in areas such as food security, public sector reform, mining and minerals, education and public health. Activities include a regular AAUN International Africa Forum (two were hosted in 2013), targeted workshops, research awards, a knowledge-sharing portal, and an alumni network. The aim is to have an equal number of Australian and African universities in the network. Currently, the AAUN comprises 11 Australian and eight African institutions, including UCT.

aaun.edu.au



THE gLObAL NETWORk PARTNERSHIP IS THE PREMIER INTERNATIONAL COLLAbORATION

PROgRAMME OF gERMANY’S UNIVERSITY OF COLOgNE (UoC). THE INITIATIVE IS

dESIgNEd AS A ‘COMPREHENSIVE ANd INTENSIVE’ COOPERATION MOdEL, AddRESSINg

bOTH RESEARCH ANd TEACHINg.

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE gLObAL NETWORk PARTNERSHIP

The programme seeks to establish innovative and sustainable structures as part of the partnership. Exchange activities target academics, students and professional staff. Partners are selected on the basis of their structural similarity to the UoC, and their standing in their countries and regions. UCT is the chosen African member in the six-university network, whose other partners are universities from Belgium, China, Japan and the United States of America (USA). Representatives from the IAPO and the Research Office were part of the UCT delegation that attended the 2013 Global Partner Network conference, held in Cologne.

An early outcome of UCT’s membership of this network is the collaboration with the University of Cologne on the DIES Proposal Writing Course. This course forms part of the Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies (DIES), which is a programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). The aim of the DIES Proposal Writing Courses is to enable researchers and younger PhD holders (up to 40 years of age) from countries in the Global South (mainly Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia) to develop grant proposal writing skills that meet international standards, and to design, write and budget a promising grant proposal for national and international research funding. The course was offered at UCT from 2 to 6 June 2014. Three months

of e-learning followed the course, which ended with another contact session from 17 to 21 November 2014 at UCT. Thirty three participants who are researchers and young PhD holders from South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi, attended the course.

verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/international/content/university_partnerships/global_network_partneruniversities/index_eng.html

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THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN-NORdIC CENTRE (SANORd) IS A NON-PROFIT PARTNERSHIP

bETWEEN HIgHER EdUCATION INSTITUTIONS FROM ALL THE NORdIC COUNTRIES ANd

SOUTHERN AFRICA, WHICH INCLUdES THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN. ITS PRIMARY AIM

IS TO PROMOTE MULTILATERAL RESEARCH COOPERATION ON MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE

TO THE dEVELOPMENT OF bOTH REgIONS.

SOUTHERN AFRICAN-NORdIC CENTRE

fields and research topics where the sharing of resources and expertise will expand the capacity and achievements of each member.

Activities include workshops, an annual SANORD symposium, and an international SANORD conference, held every two years. The 2013 conference was held in Malawi. The SANORD International Symposium at Karlstad University, Sweden was held from 10 to 12 June 2014, where the theme was ‘A Sustainable Future – Information Technology and Welfare Development’.

sanord.uwc.ac.za/pages/default.aspx

Starting with eight founding members in 2007, the partnership has since grown to include 42 institutions. Of these, 25 institutions are in southern African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and 17 are Nordic institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. SANORD seeks to stimulate multilateral research and innovation by researchers who team up across institutional, disciplinary and national boundaries. Member institutions bring together people, experience, expertise and equipment in multilateral and cross-disciplinary research groups. They identify academic


SINCE 2011, THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN HAS bEEN PART OF THE ERASMUS MUNdUS

PROgRAMMES. MANY POSTgRAdUATE STUdENTS ANd STAFF MEMbERS HAVE RECEIVEd

SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUdY ANd RESEARCH AT VARIOUS EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES.

THE VARIOUS PROgRAMMES FORM PART OF THE ERASMUS MUNdUS ANd ExTERNAL

COOPERATION dIVISION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

ERASMUS MUNdUS

UCT has participated fully in the following programmes, which are administered for the European Commission by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA):

> EMA2SA (Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa)

> EUROSA (Europe and South African Partnership for Human Development)

> EU-SATURN (European–South African programme in Tuning for Regional Needs in Higher Education)

> AESOP (A European and South African Partnership on Heritage and Past)

> EUSA_ID (Capacity Building in Higher Education for improved cooperation between the European Union and South Africa in the field of Development Studies)

UCT is proud to be associated with the EUSA_ID, EU-SATURN and INSPIRE scholarship programmes for the academic years of 2014 and 2015. UCT students and staff are eligible to apply for these scholarship programmes as part of the Target Group 1 category. Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) is the European co-coordinating partner of EUSA_ID, while the University of the Western Cape is the South African coordinating partner.

The co-coordinating partners for the EU-SATURN programme are the University of Groningen and the University of the Free State. In the case of INSPIRE, the partners are Uppsala in Sweden and the University of the Western Cape.

The EUROSA scholarship programme is co-coordinated by the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. UCT students will be eligible to apply for a EUROSA scholarship as part of the Target Group 2 category.

Upon return, students and staff are able to integrate and share their experiences and renewed outlooks with the UCT community at large. The concept of internationalisation at home is thus further embedded. Returning exchange scholars become an invaluable resource in creating an international campus.


ONE OF THE FLAgSHIP OUTbOUNd MObILITY PROgRAMMES IS THE RELATIONSHIP

bETWEEN UCT ANd bARNARd COLLEgE.

BARNARD COLLEgE SCHOLARSHIPS

It has facilitated fully paid scholarships for a semester at Barnard College for four female undergraduate students per year, from 2011 to date. UCT sent 20 undergraduate women students to Barnard by the

end of 2015, when this agreement came to an end. UCT and Barnard College hope to continue their collaboration in the future, once a new source of funding is secured.


THE YALE FELLOWSHIP PROgRAMME IS A PRESTIgIOUS TWO-WAY INTERNATIONAL

ExCHANgE PROgRAMME bETWEEN UCT ANd YALE UNIVERSITY, SUPPORTINg

OUTSTANdINg STUdENTS WITH dEMONSTRATEd LEAdERSHIP POTENTIAL FROM THE

WORLd’S FINEST EdUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, ANd ENAbLINg THEM TO SPENd AN

ACAdEMIC YEAR AT YALE UNIVERSITY, PURSUINg INdEPENdENT RESEARCH.

YALE/FOX INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS

In return, UCT accepts Yale students as international affiliates who come to UCT to pursue independent research and collaborate with various UCT departments. Grant awards for all students selected include tuition, airfare, health insurance, housing and a stipend for living expenses.

UCT is one of the 12 international institutions whose students benefit from the Fox International Fellowships. Talented students at Master’s or PhD

level from institutions in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and South Africa are selected to participate in research at Yale University for one year. Selected students need to start their period at Yale in August of the year of the award and they return to UCT the following June. To date, UCT has sent 12 students to Yale.

foxfellowship.yale.edu


THE MILLER-SIdgWICk IS AWARdEd TO ExCEPTIONAL STUdENTS IN SUPPORT OF

TELLURIdE ASSOCIATION’S MISSION OF PROMOTINg INTELLECTUAL INqUIRY ANd

dEMOCRATIC SELF-gOVERNMENT.

MILLER-SIDGWICK INTERNATIONAL ExCHANgE SCHOLARSHIP: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIgAN ANd THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

The UCT Miller Scholar is housed in the Michigan Branch of the Telluride Association (MBTA). The MBTA residence houses 25 undergraduate and postgraduate students attending the University of Michigan, as well as visiting faculty. Students participate in community life at the residence while also developing and carrying out a public service activity in Ann Arbor. In return, UCT receives one University of Michigan student on the Semester Study Abroad programme for a one-year period as an exchange student.

www.tellurideassociation.org/programs/university_students/us_awards.html

The Scholarships were established by a bequest from the family of Reese Miller, Deep Springs ’52, Cornell Branch ’53, Telluride Association ‘55 and Lincoln Exchange Scholar ‘59.

In collaboration with UCT, the Telluride Association offers an international exchange opportunity for UCT postgraduate students. The Miller-Sidgwick International Exchange Scholarship enables one postgraduate student to attend the University of Michigan for one year of study. All university fees, travel costs, insurance, and living expenses are paid for by the scholarship through funds from the Telluride Association and the University of Michigan.


IN dECEMbER 2013, THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PARTNEREd WITH THE MASTERCARd

FOUNdATION IN ITS gLObAL SCHOLARS PROgRAM; AN INITIATIVE THAT WILL PROVIdE

ACAdEMICALLY TALENTEd YET ECONOMICALLY dISAdVANTAgEd YOUNg PEOPLE FROM

dEVELOPINg COUNTRIES – PARTICULARLY FROM AFRICA – WITH ACCESS TO qUALITY

ANd RELEVANT SECONdARY ANd UNIVERSITY EdUCATION.

MASTERCARD FOUNdATION SCHOLARS PROgRAM


The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cape Town “Developing First Generation African Leaders” will facilitate the development of the next generation of transformative leaders by enabling 300 young leaders to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCT over a period of ten years. UCT’s first MCF scholars arrived at the institution in February 2015.

UCT’s partnership with The MasterCard Foundation will build on and strengthen the university’s strategic position, and in particular, its ability to achieve its strategic Goals of ‘Internationalising UCT via an Afropolitan Niche.’ In line with its vision and mandate to “Empower Internationalisation at UCT,’ IAPO is the institutional hub of the Program. Implementation of the project at UCT commenced in January 2014. IAPO, in partnership with the following offices, constitute the MasterCard Foundation

Scholars Program Implementation Working Group: the Office for Postgraduate Studies, the Postgraduate Centre and Funding Office, Careers Office, the Department of Alumni and Development and the Office of the Registrar. Input to the project has further been sought from departments across the university including the Department of Student Affairs and Communications and Marketing.

The Scholars’ Program is one globally-branded program with distinct executions at the secondary and university levels. In partnering with the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at UCT, the university recognises the powerful impact of a Scholars Program to transform the lives of Africans in Africa.

www.mastercardfdn.org/youth-learning/the-mastercard-foundation-scholars-program


LSE and UCT offered the second LSE/UCT July School in July 2014. This innovative two-week programme provides students, graduates and professionals from around the world with an exciting new opportunity to study important social science issues relevant to Africa today. The programme is taught by outstanding faculty members from UCT and LSE, two of the world’s leading institutions in teaching and research.

THE FIRST LSE/UCT jULY SCHOOL WAS HELd IN 2013, ANd WAS ATTENdEd bY 100

PARTICIPANTS FROM MORE THAN 30 COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, EUROPE, ASIA ANd THE

AMERICAS. IT WAS A COLLAbORATIVE EVENT ORgANISEd bY LSE ANd THE CENTRE FOR

OPEN LEARNINg AT UCT.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ANd POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)/UCT jULY SCHOOL

UCT has also welcomed two PhD students from LSE as international affiliates and has sent two UCT PhD students to LSE for a short research exchange period.

www.lse.ac.uk/study/summerschools/


The UniversiTy of Cape Town (UCT) is The primary sTraTegiC parTner in afriCa

for The global engagemenT neTwork (gen) of The pennsylvania sTaTe

UniversiTy (psU) in The UniTed sTaTes of ameriCa (Usa). The Two insTiTUTions

share a long hisTory of CollaboraTive projeCTs.

PENNSYLVANIA sTaTe UniversiTy sTraTegiC parTnership

Major research initiatives include HealthWise South Africa, a five-year randomised trial on the effectiveness of HealthWise, a comprehensive universal prevention programme to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS and STDs; the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research and Training programme; and research related to climate change. The partners have also collaborated on several educational projects. These are the Cape Town Arts and Sciences Programme, which is administered by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE); the Environmental Justice in South Africa programme, with the Centre for Advanced Undergraduate Study and Experience; and an initiative known as Parks and People,

developed in collaboration with the Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency. In addition, there have been exchanges between the two institutions’ law schools.

UCT and PSU hosted a day-long scholarly engagement on shale gas extraction in 2014. This interdisciplinary conversation will likely be expanded in the coming months to include international partners from Brazil and Eastern Europe. Key focal points for discussion at present include: macro-economic and socio-economic issues, environmental and public health issues, technology and resource exploration, governance issues, environmental humanities, and energy planning.


ON THE bASIS OF A gENERAL AgREEMENT bETWEEN CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

HEAdqUARTERS (HANbAN) IN CHINA ANd THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SIgNEd

AT THE 2Nd CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES CONFERENCE IN bEIjINg IN 2007, UCT ENTEREd A

PARTNERSHIP WITH SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY IN gUANgzHOU, CHINA, IN ESTAbLISHINg

A jOINT VENTURE – THE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN.

CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

language and culture around the world, and to oversee cultural exchanges. The Confucius Institute at UCT runs a host of extra-curricular and credit-bearing Chinese-language courses.

In addition, the institute manages several programmes that offer exchange opportunities to UCT students. The Confucius Institute scholarship programme sponsors UCT students, scholars and Chinese-language teachers to study Chinese at universities in China. The Confucius China Studies programme comprises a series of fellowships and grants that allow students to conduct doctoral studies in China. The programme also offers opportunities to academics to do research at Chinese universities, funds publications on Chinese studies, and assists academics to host or attend international conferences on Chinese studies. A popular programme has been the Chinese Language and Culture Summer Camp, which offers students a chance to spend about two weeks in China. During this time, the students tour the country and take part in intensive Chinese language and cultural courses. A total of 95 UCT students participated in these camps between 2011 and 2014.

www.confucius.uct.ac.za

An opening ceremony was held on January 20, 2010. It was not until July 2010 that the Confucius Institute started functioning, devoting itself to the teaching of Chinese language, and to strengthening educational and cultural exchanges and friendly cooperation between China and South Africa. In 2010, the University of Cape Town (UCT) joined the global network of some 1 000 Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms, with the establishment of a Confucius Institute at the university. Together, these institutions and classrooms, affiliated to the Chinese Ministry of Education, are designed to promote Chinese

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A staff member was enabled to spend a number of weeks at the NIH’s offices in Washington, learning about the NIH’s key policies, processes and procedures. In addition, the Research Office secured a supplementary NIH grant that allows IEARDA awardees to pass on their grants management skills to other research administrators in Africa. To this end, six such awardees – including one from UCT – presented a five-day workshop on grants management to 22 participants from 15 institutions representing 11 Francophone African countries, in Dakar, Senegal, in May/June 2013. So successful was the workshop that the presenters were invited to present their case to prospective donors in Washington in August that year. Of all higher education institutions outside the USA, UCT receives the highest overall amount of funding in direct grants from the NIH – US$9 million in 2013, an increase from US$6.85 million in 2012.

UCT’s Global Partnerships Project is currently in the pilot phase and aims to establish a blueprint for PhD training that will stimulate the creation of new knowledge and support the next generation of researchers. Such a model will be founded on existing and productive research collaborations in the Global South, strengthened through executive-

level agreements, mobility funds and three-way PhD bursary packages. Ideally, each agreement will include partners from both the Global South and the North, forming a triangular research and supervisory relationship. The goals are to produce a cohort of exceptionally well-trained researchers whose work will be considered globally competitive, to increase the number of PhD graduates, and to formalise a model for supervision that supplements current PhD training practice. The project has started with the formalisation of partnerships based on existing collaboration and joint training of PhD students at universities in Brazil and Africa, Germany and the USA.

The work of the newly established Office of Research Integrity (ORI), located within the Research Office, is designed to support and underpin international collaborations and funding arrangements. So, for example, the ORI has conducted a review of ethics policies at UCT, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive conflict of interest policy that will cover the participation of UCT scholars in, among other initiatives, research projects that involve multiple sites in different jurisdictions. The ORI has also identified opportunities for input on policy


THE RESEARCH OFFICE MANAgES A RANgE OF ON-gOINg INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT THE

INTERNATIONALISATION OF RESEARCH. THE MANAgEMENT OF LARgE, COLLAbORATIVE

FUNdINg bIdS IS INCREASINgLY UNdER THE SPOTLIgHT ANd, TO ENHANCE THE

UNIVERSITY’S CAPACITY TO SUPPORT SUCH EFFORTS, THE RESEARCH OFFICE HAS SECUREd

AN INTERNATIONAL ExTRAMURAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCH dEVELOPMENT AWARd (IEARdA),

FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) IN THE UNITEd STATES OF AMERICA

(USA), TO HELP dEVELOP THE SkILLS REqUIREd TO SUPPORT SUCH ACTIVITY.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OF THE RESEARCH OFFICE


developments that pertain to research integrity and the internationalisation of UCT research. For instance, the ORI has commented on a draft policy of the NIH on the sharing of data from international genomics studies. The ORI is a resource that supports both UCT research and internationalisation, particularly initiatives that rely on research consortia, steering committees for scholarly resources, and data-sharing agreements.

A growing strategy in developing internationalisation is the use of research

information-management tools that, for example, look at patterns of research internationalisation. Amongst other things, such tools allow UCT to identify areas where it has strong international collaborations and to pinpoint emerging areas of interdisciplinary research.

These findings can help the university to tap into new research opportunities, and to direct the strategic use of funding. UCT has deployed Elsevier’s SciVal Spotlight management tool for ‘co-citation’ analysis.

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This tool, acquired through a partnership grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, identifies and analyses interdisciplinary areas of research excellence (or ‘competencies’) at the university. It has been used extensively over the last year to investigate UCT’s collaborations with international institutions, measured by co-authored journal publications.

The tool has, for example, pointed out that UCT researchers are among the world leaders in many of the 97 competencies identified for UCT.

The map indicates the number of universities in each country with which UCT collaborates.

UCT subscribes to ‘Research Professional Africa’, an online platform that allows access to the latest global coverage of research funding programmes, as well as to science and technology news and innovation policy documents.

African researchers are eligible for all international funding opportunities advertised on the site.

INTERNATIONAL Mobility

THE INTERNATIONAL ACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)

HAS AS ITS CORE bUSINESS TO FACILITATE ANd PROMOTE

ALL FACETS OF INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT.


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during this time it also became apparent that the links that had arisen between UCT and other partner institutions

needed to be managed and formalised. As a result, a permanent home for internationalisation had to be found within the university, and the international Academic programmes office (iApo) was therefore established in 1996.

The funding to establish IAPO was to be partly generated by developing a programme to bring in North American students to spend a semester at UCT. In order to benchmark the most successful programmes in countries where Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programmes had been implemented, Professor West visited universities in Australia. The idea was to create a similar programme at UCT, which would simultaneously bridge the gap of isolation forced upon students and academics during apartheid, and form part of an income stream for the newly established IAPO.

Although international universities had expressed interest in signing exchange agreements with UCT, this was not feasible at that stage due to high currency exchange rates and the weak rand. Bringing the SSA programme to UCT was a means of enabling ‘internationalisation at home’ through

Since 2002, the SSA numbers have grown by

84.7%– an average of 5.29 percent per annum

AFTER SOUTH AFRICA’S dEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN 1994 gLObAL ATTENTION SHIFTEd

ANd UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE WORLd ExPRESSEd AN INTEREST IN CREATINg ACAdEMIC

LINkS ANd PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT). AS A RESULT

OF THE MOUNTINg INTEREST, PROFESSOR MARTIN WEST, ONE OF UCT’S dEPUTY VICE-

CHANCELLORS AT THAT TIME, REALISEd THAT INTERNATIONALISATION WOULd PLAY AN

INTEgRAL ROLE IN THE dEVELOPMENT OF A dEMOCRATIC TERTIARY INSTITUTION.

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the integration of international students on campus and their participation in classroom discussions. The massive success of this programme at UCT solidified the dream of IAPO’s first director, Dr Lesley Shackleton, who viewed the SSA programme as an opportunity to ‘develop global citizenship and leadership’.

The programme is designed for international students who wish to spend one or two semesters at UCT, taking (mostly) undergraduate courses for the purpose of transferring credit, on the completion of these courses, to their home institution for (usually) undergraduate degree credit.

The success of the programme to date is self-evident – and is reflected in the statistics. In 1998, the SSA programme officially started, with

152 students coming to UCT during that year. By 2006, this number had grown to 673 per annum. In 2010, IAPO’s record year to date, 1,026 SSA students spent a semester at UCT. Since 2002, the SSA numbers have grown by 84.7 per cent – an average of 5.29 per cent per annum. The majority of SSA students come from the United States of America, with Norwegian students taking second place in terms of national numbers. A growing number come from the rest of Europe and the rest of the world.

Currently seven members of staff are dedicated to the SSA programme, and they are divided into academic-focused staff (academic queries, admissions, enrolment and transcripts) and supplementary-focused staff (student life, emergency response, orientation and housing).

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UCT STUDENTSON INTERNATIONAL ExCHANgE

Through the postgraduate funding office, UCT offers conference travel grants competitively to young researchers who

will contribute to future research. master’s students may receive funding for travel to conferences in the sAdC region, while phd candidates may receive funding for travel to both local and international conferences. in addition, the office offers scholarships for international travel, which are available to assist masters and doctoral students to proceed to an approved international institution for a visiting scholars’ programme, for research, or to attend specific and approved courses. The awards are intended for individual senior students and have been established to enhance their research activities being conducted for the completion of their degrees.

Linking postgraduate student mobility to research initiatives at UCT is a long-standing practice, with many principal investigators exchanging research students between their laboratories during the course of a research project. These mobilities are managed by the researchers themselves, and are funded from research funds.

UCT Students who are awarded an

MMUFscholarship

typically attend two undergraduate

conferences

THE INTERNATIONAL bEST PRACTICE FOR STUdENT ExCHANgE IS RECIPROCAL MObILITY

bETWEEN PARTNERS. AT UCT THIS IS A PRIORITY, bUT THE kEY CHALLENgE IS TO FINANCE

THE RECIPROCITY dESPITE UNFAVOURAbLE ExCHANgE RATES. AS A RESULT, THE VISIbLE

TRENd IS THAT MANY STUdENTS COME TO UCT, bUT FAR FEWER UCT STUdENTS gO

TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES. dESPITE THIS dIFFERENCE IN INbOUNd ANd OUTbOUNd

ExCHANgES, THE MEMORANdA OF UNdERSTANdINg (MOU) THAT UCT HAS SIgNEd HAVE

CULTIVATEd IMPORTANT PARTNERSHIPS THAT HAVE STRENgTHENEd OVER THE YEARS.

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UCT students also have access to international opportunities through scholarship programmes such as the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) programme, administered in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED). The MMUF programme is the centrepiece of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. UCT students who have been awarded an MMUF scholarship typically attend two undergraduate conferences, one in Atlanta and one at UCT, during their scholarship period.

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STAFFMObILITY AdMINISTEREd bY IAPO

The erasmus mundus programmes in which UCT participates offer opportunities for staff mobility scholarships, allowing UCT

academics and pAss staff to spend some time at the partner campus, engaging in teaching, research or professional development.

For PASS staff, additional exchange opportunities are offered through bilateral mobility arrangements with other universities. These exchanges are typically 7 to 21 days in length and are predominantly located at North American partner universities.

The award of such opportunities is by application and is competitive. Applicants are required to submit a proposal and project plan highlighting how they wish to benefit from the host institution and how this knowledge will be applied upon their return. If a PASS staff member is shortlisted, he or she is interviewed by a panel consisting of representatives from all faculties and two representatives from IAPO who specialise in mobility. A formal report needs to be submitted six weeks after the staff member returns.

At the time of writing, PASS mobility opportunities were available at Simon Fraser University, Canada; the University of California, USA; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

For

PASSstaff, additional

exchange opportunities are offered through

bilateral arrangements with other univiersities

IAPO FACILITATES THE MObILITY OF PROFESSIONAL, AdMINISTRATIVE ANd SUPPORT STAFF

(PASS), THROUgH gENERAL UNIVERSITY ExCHANgES, ANd THE MObILITY OF ACAdEMIC

STAFF, THROUgH SPECIFIC CONSORTIA OR bILATERAL ExCHANgE PROgRAMMES.

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FACULTIES

THE INTERNATIONAL ACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)

HAS AS ITS CORE bUSINESS TO FACILITATE ANd PROMOTE

ALL FACETS OF INTERNATIONALISATION AT UCT.


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HUMANITIES

The faculty addresses the university’s Afropolitan ambitions through initiatives such as the African Cinema Unit,

the Tombouctou project and Continental Connections programme of the institute for humanities in Africa (hUmA), the many projects of the democracy in Africa research Unit, the Africa, reading, humanities and Coetzee Collective seminar series in the department of english and the sawyer seminar series in the department of Anthropology.

The faculty further disseminates its scholarship in Africa – another strategic initiative – through HUMA seminars and meetings, the establishment of an African Film Collection in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, and through the role academics play as editors of scholarly publications. To broaden the pool of African scholars at UCT, departments and academics have established links with scholars and institutions from the rest of the continent. Students from other African countries are attracted to programmes like the Global Studies Master’s Programme in the Department of Sociology. Departments and scholars also explore avenues for collaborative research and teaching with colleagues based at other African universities, for example the Department of Philosophy’s links with the University of Ghana, and an agreement between the Department of Psychology and the University of Malawi.

In 2013, the faculty had registered

32registered postdoctoral

fellows, 17 of whom were international.

THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SUPPORTS THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN’S

‘INTERNATIONALISATION WITH AN AFROPOLITAN NICHE’ STRATEgY THROUgH THE

PROgRAMMES RUN bY ITS dEPARTMENTS ANd RESEARCH CENTRES, gROUPS ANd UNITS,

ANd THE RESEARCH INTERESTS OF ITS INdIVIdUAL SCHOLARS ANd RESEARCHERS. THIS

INCLUdES THE RESEARCH OF SENIOR POSTgRAdUATE STUdENTS ANd POSTdOCTORAL

RESEARCH FELLOWS.

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To strengthen UCT’s international research profile, scholars visit international institutions and, in return, host scholars from universities overseas. Research collaborations with leading institutions and scholars in Europe and the Americas form an important part of that process. The Global Studies programme with the University of Freiburg in Germany and India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University is a model for a co-badged degree and is unique in the faculty. Much of this engagement with the rest of the world is driven by individual scholars and departments, centres, units and groups in the faculty.

inTernATionAl sTUdenTs And posT-doCTorAl fellows

International undergraduate students in the faculty comprise 21 per cent of the total undergraduate student enrolment in 2013. At postgraduate level,

22 per cent of students are international students. The faculty remains a favourite destination for Semester Study Abroad (SSA) students, with about 700 students hosted annually. The SSA programme also provides financial support for the faculty’s students to travel abroad on exchange.

In 2013, the faculty had 32 registered postdoctoral fellows, 17 of whom were international (53 per cent).

sTAff exChAnges And neTworking

International exchanges and networking involve a range of activities, from research and teaching to presentations at conferences, as well as participation in colloquia, meetings and workshops. During 2013, staff were involved in a number of activities, visits, projects and networks. A selection of these highlights follows:

Country of Origin Department / Research Unit

Brazil Department of Religious Studies

GermanyLinguistics Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics

Italy (3)

Centre for Rhetoric Studies

Department of Religious Studies

School of Languages and Literatures, Italian

KenyaSocial Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics

NamibiaSocial Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics

Netherlands (2)

Centre for African Studies

Department of Psychology

Nigeria Centre for African Studies

United Kingdom (3)

Historical Studies

Linguistics Section of the School of African and Gender Studies,

Anthropology and Linguistics

United States of America (2) Centre for Social Science Research

Zambia Department of Sociology

Zimbabwe Centre for African Studies

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inTernATionAl sTAff And AppoinTmenTs

The faculty has many international scholars among its staff. In 2013 staff from Germany, the UK and Zambia were appointed.

reCenT inTernATionAl linkAges

International collaborations, partnerships and exchange programmes with institutions abroad vary greatly from department to department, and are too numerous to mention. The following are a few examples of new collaborations or partnerships formed in 2013.

The French Studies section in the School of Languages and Literatures has an exchange programme with the University of Montpellier III. This programme involves students from Montpellier attending classes at UCT and assisting students with French.

The Opera School has four ongoing collaborative international relationships with the following institutions: the University Opera College in the University of the Arts, Sweden; the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance; the Coget Centre for Humanities at Brown University, USA; and the Sibelius Academy, Finland. All these collaborations involve staff as well as student exchanges.

The Department of English is part of a three-way exchange, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with Kenyatta University in Kenya and the Free University in Germany. Together with the French Studies section, the English department has also entered into a student exchange agreement with Paul Valery University in France.

The national chair in social anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology hosts a civil-society project, the Archival Platform. The project’s primary constituency is southern Africa, but it has also developed a strong international profile. The Department of Religious Studies has a long-term relationship with the University of Hamburg’s Department of Education, which has led to faculty exchanges, conferences and joint publications.

Institutions Visited on Staff Exchanges> Mannes College of Music in New York, USA> Instituto Superior del Colon in Buenos Aires, >

Argentina> University of Cologne, Germany> School of Oriental and African Studies, University

of London, UK> Yale University, USA> Das Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin ist ein

-Institute for Advanced Study, Germany> University of Minnesota, USA> Indiana University, USA> Duke University, USA> University of Amsterdam, Netherlands> Cornell University, USA> Harvard University, USA> University of Illinois, USA> Auburn University, USA> Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands> University of Hamburg, Germany> University of Toulouse, France

Projects and networks> Africa-Asia Research Network> Afrobarometer project: a public opinion study of > 35 African countries, with colleagues in the USA

and Ghana> African legislatures project: a study of 17

countries> Legislating and Implementing Welfare Policy

Reforms (LIWPR) project: a study of 15 countries> Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP),

involving southern African countries> Civic Education and Democracy project, with

colleagues in the USA and Australia> Heritage Dynamics: The Politics of Authentication

and the Aesthetics of Persuasion, involving colleagues in Amsterdam, Ghana and Brazil

> The Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity: an international collaborative project

> Islam in Africa Network, involving colleagues in Africa and Europe

> Ministerial Special Project on the future of the Humanities and the Social Sciences

> Responses to Interpersonal Violence Network, involving colleagues from Sweden, the UK and Canada

> Indigenous Research Network, involving colleagues from the University of Sydney

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The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) has longstanding connections with colleagues and institutions in Senegal, Mali and Morocco through current and former PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows. HUMA has hosted visiting scholars from Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ethiopia. In Europe, HUMA scholars have ongoing collaborations with the Universities of Hamburg, Bergen and Leiden in Germany.

visiTing sCholArs

The faculty hosted 14 AW Mellon Visiting Scholars in 2013. These Mellon scholars came from Argentina, Australia, Colombia, India, Mali, the UK and the USA. Countless other scholars have also visited UCT. Most of the scholars hailed from the UK and the USA, but have also included academics from Israel and Uganda.

fUTUre inTernATionAlisATion plAns

A number of activities were scheduled for 2014. The French Section will host an international conference entitled Confluences: transoceanic encounters. The Centre for Film and Media Studies will explore formalising a collaboration with the University of Glasgow, UK, and the African Cinema Unit will host the third alt.Africa Film Festival, scheduled to coincide with Africa Month.

The Department of Political Studies will host a visit by José Manuel Durão Barroso, president of the European Union Commission. The South African College of Music will organise a teaching exchange with the musicology section of Germany’s University of Potsdam. The Department of Philosophy will host AW Mellon Scholar Professor Jonathan Wolff of University College London, and will also host the international Social Equality Conference in 2014.

The Department of English is collaborating with Extra-Mural Studies and with colleagues at Birmingham University and the University of Western Australia to co-convene a conference entitled Craft Wars on poetry in South Africa, Australia and the Caribbean, which will be hosted by UCT. The Africa, Reading, Humanities series hopes to attract scholars from the rest of Africa.

As part of the DAAD-funded exchange, staff from the Department of English will visit Kenyatta University in 2014, while a scholar from this university will spend time at UCT. The Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative and the Archival Platform will have a joint project with the Museum of Aids in Africa, incorporating multiple African partners. The Department of Religious Studies will host the biannual conference of the African Association for the Study of Religions. The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) will stage the acclaimed interdisciplinary theatre production, Hate Radio, addressing the Rwandan genocide.

inTernATionAlisATion highlighTs

International exhibitions were presented by staff from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. These included:

> Professor Jane Alexander’s solo exhibition, Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope), at St John the Divine, New York.

> Professor Stephen Inggs presented work at Graphic Arts from the World – Africa, at the International Centre for Graphic Arts in Poland.

> Associate Professor Berni Searle’s work entitled Refuge was on show at La Galerie Particuliere, France. Searle’s Distance and Desire. Encounters with the African Archive. Part II: Contemporary Reconfigurations was exhibited in the Walther Collection Project Space, New York, USA. Her Earth Matters was part of an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, USA.

> PhD student Brenton Maart was curator of South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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HEALTH SCIENCES

part of the faculty’s international portfolio includes attracting first-rate postgraduate students from

across Africa and building Africa’s emerging researcher capacity, whilst simultaneously supporting the conduct of research in African study sites and focusing on Africa’s health research priorities.

The faculty’s research enterprise engages internationally in the following ways:

> Research groups collaborate with scientists at foreign institutions.

> Research groups are supported by international funders.

> Departments train international postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

> Researchers provide advice via international health-related bodies, for example, the World Health Organisation (WHO).

> Researchers review journal articles and play editorial roles on international journals.

> Researchers conduct contract research trials for international funders, NGOs and pharmaceutical companies.

> Academics from foreign institutions sit on some of the faculty’s scientific advisory boards.

The number of international students in the undergraduate

programmes increased from

51in 2012 to

98in 2013

WITH REgARdS TO THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE, THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IS

ALREAdY STRONgLY ENgAgEd IN INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY, bOTH IN AFRICA ANd ON

OTHER CONTINENTS. A kEY RESEARCH STRATEgY IS TO PROMOTE COLLAbORATION

ANd PARTNERSHIPS. THIS INCLUdES COLLAbORATINg WITH gROUPS OUTSIdE OF SOUTH

AFRICA, LOCATEd IN UNIVERSITIES, SCIENCE COUNCILS, RESEARCH INSTITUTES ANd

NON-gOVERNMENTAL ORgANISATIONS (NgOS) IN AFRICA ANd gLObALLY. IN AddITION

TO PROMOTINg INVESTIgATOR-LEd COLLAbORATIONS, THE FACULTY OFTEN dEVELOPS

bROAdER STRATEgIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORgANISATIONS.

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These factors significantly shape the research that the faculty’s scholars conduct, both in volume and nature.

sTUdenTs

The number of international students in the undergraduate programmes increased from 51 in 2012 to 98 in 2013. The students represented 11 countries, nine of which are African countries. Similarly, at postgraduate level, there was a 98 per cent increase in the number of international students (from 413 in 2012 to 801 in 2013). The students represented 52 countries, of which 26 are African countries. The number of postgraduate students from African countries increased from 338 in 2012 to 673 in 2013. In addition, three students were involved in exchange programmes with Emory University in the United States of America (USA).

sCholArs

In 2013, the University Research Committee (URC) awarded six grants to academics in the faculty to support the hosting of conferences at UCT. These conferences were entitled ‘Immunology of Diseases’, ‘Emerging Trends in the Pharmacology of the RAS’, the ‘International Paediatric Surgical Research Society Symposium’, the ‘History of Anaesthesia and Ethics Symposium’, the ‘Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) 10 Year Anniversary Celebratory Symposium’, and ‘Heteronormativity and Health: Education and Practice’.

The URC also awarded 54 grants to the faculty’s academics in 2013 to support their attendance at international conferences. It is noteworthy that academics also attended numerous other conferences, supported by their own research funds.

In addition, researchers regularly visit international peers and collaborators. While many of these visits are funded by academics’ own research funds or by their international hosts, the URC specifically supported six international short research visits by faculty investigators in 2013. Similarly, the URC awarded nine grants that allowed academics to

host visiting scholars, while other visits were funded by researchers themselves, or by their visitors.

reCenT inTernATionAlisATion highlighTs

The Community Eye Health Institute (CEHI), founded in 2008, has been one of the front-running capacity-building initiatives in the faculty. In support of Vision 2020, the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness spearheaded by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), CEHI has run eye-care programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and other WHO regions. CEHI focused on management training and development support, while also providing invaluable monitoring and evaluation services. Since CEHI’s establishment, its four training programmes have been completed by more than 120 participants, hailing from over 20 African countries, as well as Afghanistan, the United Kingdom (UK) and Yemen. Of the participants, 25 have graduated with Postgraduate Diplomas in Community Eye Health and, in 2012, the first student completed the Master’s of Public Health (Community Eye Health track).

Professor Karen Sliwa, Director of the Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, is increasingly recognised as a leader in the study of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition experienced during pregnancy in which the mother’s heart dilates and weakens. Sliwa has worked to raise awareness of the disorder, and has established connections with the European Cardiac Society Working Group on PPCM, while overseeing a large international registry on PPCM. With a collaborator in Australia, she established a population study – the Heart of Soweto Study – to investigate the prevalence, presentation and management of cardiac disease in an urban African population. She has expanded the study, which highlights the high prevalence of hypertension, obesity and cardiac disease in women of childbearing age, to other African countries, including Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, and to include data on over 8 000 patients. Sliwa also co-leads, with a colleague in Mozambique, the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute for the Sub-Saharan Africa Region, which aims to improve research and knowledge on

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initiated a collaboration with associates in Brazil and India, and the project was entitled ‘Occupational Therapy Education for Social Transformation (OTEST): A pilot co-operative inquiry’. The project was funded by Higher Education South Africa and the National Research Foundation, under the auspices of the academic committee of the India–Brazil–South Africa Trilateral Forum.

Since 2007, Associate Professor Madeleine Duncan of the division has led two projects funded by the South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development. One project explores the dynamic relationship between poverty, disability and occupation, while the second investigates the mechanisms of disability-inclusive development through policy literacy. With collaborators in Europe, Duncan has developed ‘Competencies for Poverty Reduction’, known as COPORE, an international project that investigates how ‘poverty and cohesion’ problems are linked to health.

In other OT collaborations, Dr Helen Buchanan leads a team of researchers at UCT working with a group at the University of South Australia to explore pedagogy and tools for creative problem-solving as part of the graduate exit competencies. Loren Lewis is currently involved in a pilot study in collaboration with Coventry University, UK, to investigate how OT programmes at both institutions have enabled graduates to exercise agency as part of the mental health workforce.

The Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) runs a joint course on ‘Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment’ in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The course is aimed at capacity building for the ear and hearing healthcare workforce in developing countries. Participants hail from South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

In other CSD networks, Dr Michal Harty collaborates with colleagues at Vanderbilt University, USA, on a project entitled ‘Exploring the Needs for [Enhanced Milieu] Language Intervention in South Africa’. PhD student Lucretia Petersen is assisting with the assembly of research equipment for a project at San

pulmonary vascular disease in the region.

From 2002 to 2011, the faculty’s Bioethics Centre managed to establish a pioneering capacity-building initiative to address the shortcomings of research ethics in southern Africa. With funding from the two independent groups, Fogarty International Centre and the International Research Ethics Network for Southern Africa (IRENSA), the Diploma in International Research Ethics was launched, as well as an annual seminar on research ethics. The diploma became the first to target mid-career professionals. Nearly 100 trainees, from South Africa, Botswana, Kenya and Zambia, completed the programme. The diploma inspired a follow-up programme that will be offered at UCT’s partner institution, Stellenbosch University.

TeAChing And reseArCh CollAborATions

For the past 12 years, Professor Solly Benatar, founding director of the UCT Bioethics Centre, has coordinated and taught an annual module on ‘International Research Ethics and Cross Cultural Considerations’ at the Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) at the University of Toronto. Benatar was appointed as Visiting Scholar in Global Health at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, in addition to other appointments.

The division of Occupational Therapy (OT) attracts requests for formalised Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) and collaborations from throughout the world. The division consults regularly with the Occupational Therapy Africa Regional Group (OTARG), among other partnerships. The division offers support to individual researchers on the continent, including occupational therapists from Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Rwanda. Within the division, Associate Professors Elelwani Ramugondo and Madie Duncan have, with a grant from the Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Fund, initiated a project that focuses on capacity-building among OT scholars from Africa. The project assists UCT Master’s graduates from five African countries – Lesotho, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, and Swaziland – to set up OT programmes in their countries.

The division’s Associate Professor Roshan Galvaan

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Diego University, working alongside her US research mentor. On an academic visit to the division, Dr Titus Ibekwe of the University of Abuja was involved in academic teaching and advised staff on research and publications. He has continued to maintain a working relationship with the division, including the co-authoring of four articles. Additional visitors included a group from the University of Queensland, Australia. In turn, the division’s Professor Shajila Singh spent some time in Ethiopia, working alongside scholars, a UCT graduate among them, at Addis Ababa University on the development of a speech-language therapy education and training programme. The division received requests from the Higher Health Science Institute (ISCISA) in Mozambique and a Rwandan institution to help with establishing programmes in speech-language pathology and audiology, respectively.

Since the conception of the Disability Studies Academic Programme (DSAP) of the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Studies in 2003, DSAP has become a flagship internationalisation initiative in the department. The programme, which includes a one-year postgraduate diploma in disability studies, which can be converted to a MPhil or PhD, was formed in partnership with experts at the University of Leeds, UK. The programme has become a major capacity-building opportunity in Africa, attracting students from Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Moreover, the programme has, in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, worked with institutions in Ghana to develop courses there, and is building collaborations in Europe.

DSAP staff are part of three professional and academic networks in Africa, namely, the Community Based Rehabilitation Africa Network (CAN), the Occupational Therapy Africa Regional Group (OTARG), and the Africa Network for Evidence into Action on Disability (AfriNEAD), which all aim to develop leadership capacity in teaching and research in higher education institutions and relevant government departments.The Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative (CIDRI), founded with the support of a host of international partners in 2008, brings together local, African and international researchers for networking

opportunities, which include research meetings. Twelve of these meetings have already been hosted. Ninety-two per cent of doctoral scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships were awarded to researchers from Africa, and a third of all awards to scholars from outside South Africa.

Three open educational resources (OER) initiatives were launched by the Division of Otorhinolaryngology to provide ear, nose and throat (ENT), and head and neck surgeons from other African countries with access to textbooks and educational material, which are not easily accessible. The first initiative is the website www.entdev.uct.ac.za, or ‘Promoting Education for Developing World ENT’, which hosts information on how to run surgical dissection courses, and lists scholarships and training opportunities as well as free educational resources. The Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Operative Surgery (also at www.entdev.uct.ac.za) is a free open access surgical atlas that instructs surgeons how to perform ENT operations. The chapters of the atlas have been downloaded over 100 000 times. The newest addition, the Open Access Guide to Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists, is a practical guide for ENT surgeons on how to assess hearing and fit hearing aids. The textbooks, registered with Creative Commons, are being translated into Portuguese and French by ENT colleagues.

One of the milestones of the sickle-cell disease (SCD) research group in the Division of Human Genetics is the establishing of a network of African physicians and scientists, with funding received from the Human Heredity & Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium. A key objective of the group, which has members from South Africa, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana and Tanzania, is to advance their understanding of genomics research and the public health aspects of SCD from the perspectives of research scientists, health professionals, SCD patients and communities.

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SCIENCE

According to the subject rankings of the world University rankings, UCT’s science faculty is placed within the 101 to 150

top universities for the biological sciences and for environmental science, and within the 51 to 100 top universities for the earth and marine sciences. These rankings are a clear indication that the faculty successfully engages on an international platform. The vast majority of staff in the faculty have international collaborators and spend some time every year visiting such collaborators, or attending conferences or workshops elsewhere in the world.

The number of international institutions with whom staff in the faculty have partnered over the past five years (and from which publications arose) amount to many hundreds. These include over 300 collaborators in the USA alone, a few hundred in Europe, 23 in Russia, and 28 in China. This global network leads to regular interactions with international colleagues. Scholars from across the world, including academics from Africa, visit staff in the faculty throughout the year, and the faculty’s scholars engage with institutions in the rest of Africa where collaboration opportunities occur. The faculty intends to strengthen ties with a select few institutions in Africa, and hopes to make progress in this regard during 2014.

Over

50%of the faculty’s

Master’s and PhD students spend time

at international institutions or

at international conferences during the course of their studies.

THE INTERNATIONALISATION STRATEgY OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE IS EMbEddEd

WITHIN ITS ROUTINE ExPECTATIONS OF STAFF ACTIVITIES, MOST OF WHICH OCCUR

WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA. THIS IS TO bE ExPECTEd OF A SCIENCE FACULTY

IN A UNIVERSITY RANkEd AMONg THE WORLd’S TOP 200 UNIVERSITIES, ACCORdINg TO

THE TIMES HIgHER EdUCATION WORLd UNIVERSITY RANkINgS IN 2013. ENgAgEMENT

WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS ENCOURAgEd, INdEEd ASSUMEd, ANd

ALL dEPARTMENTS IN THE FACULTY PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN ALL SPHERES OF

INTERNATIONALISATION, dRIVEN LARgELY bY INdIVIdUALS.

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This international context provides many opportunities for travelling to the faculty’s graduate students. Over 50 per cent of the faculty’s Master’s and PhD students spend time at international institutions or at international conferences during the course of their studies.

inTernATionAl sTUdenTs And posT-doCTorAl fellows

The faculty is home to many international students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. At undergraduate level, over 15 per cent of students are international, of which 60 per cent are from elsewhere in Africa. Similarly, at postgraduate level, 32 per cent of students are international, and 70 per cent of these are from the rest of Africa. These numbers remain fairly static, but this balance suits the faculty, which has no specific plans to increase the numbers. Postdoctoral numbers are high (153 in 2013), and some 50 per cent of these research fellows were international.

UCT sTUdenTs senT on exChAnge

The faculty sends about five undergraduates on exchange to international institutions every year.

inTernATionAl sTAff

A significant proportion of academic staff in the faculty – about 35 per cent – comes from other countries. Of the 18 recent academic staff appointments, about 80 per cent were of international origin. A measure of the international visibility of the faculty is found in the predominance of applicants for academic posts coming from other countries. Given the significant numbers of international staff, the faculty has no immediate plans to increase the current proportion.


Scholars in the faculty travel extensively each year, meeting with collaborators, and attending conferences, workshops and committee meetings of

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scientific societies. These visits are made to Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and the Pacific Rim, including New Zealand and Australia. There are no formal staff exchange agreements at faculty or departmental level, although a staff secondment arrangement exists between the H3-D Research Centre in the Department of Chemistry and Novartis, a drug development company based in Switzerland. The Dean visited the University of Mahajanga in Madagascar at their invitation to discuss a possible exchange agreement, which is in the process of being finalised.

The map on page 73 shows the location and number of productive international collaborations that have led to research publications emanating from the Science Faculty over the past five years.

inTernATionAl visiTs, ConferenCes And ColloqUiA

Staff in the faculty hosted three large international conferences in 2013. These were the Sixth International Conference: Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Theoretical Physics); the Fourth Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (Computer Science); and the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Computer Science).

These locally hosted international conferences are extremely important for the international visibility of faculty scholars, and lead to new collaborations and an awareness of what the faculty and UCT have to offer. Smaller international workshops that were held in 2013 include the successful Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) workshop, held in January 2013. A RAIN (Regional Archives for Integrated iNvestigations) workshop was held in November 2013 in collaboration with German institutions, and investigated how climate and associated environmental conditions have changed during the late quaternary.

visiTing sCholArs

A record of academic visitors to departments is not kept, but most departments have a steady stream of

international visitors from all corners of the globe. Some visitors spend only a few days here, while other visitors embark on lengthier visits that may extend to weeks or months. In 2013 the annual Dean’s Visitor was Professor Sandra McGuire of the University of Louisiana. McGuire spent a week lecturing and meeting with departments to discuss the factors affecting undergraduate throughput. The faculty also hosted three leading international scholars from the United Kingdom (UK) who spent a week at UCT conducting a review of the faculty’s research activities. Their home institutions are the University of St Andrews, the University of Southampton, and the University of Newcastle. Over the course of a year, about 100 general visitors are hosted by the faculty.

reCenT inTernATionAl linkAges

The faculty staff are involved in hundreds of international collaborations. At a broader level, the Dean visited the Universities of St Andrews and Bristol during 2013 to discuss linkages, and to receive advice on structures and processes. No general exchange agreements have been signed, but joint degrees or co-badged degrees with international institutions have become popular. The faculty has signed or is in the process of signing agreements with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and the University of Bretagne Occidentale, University Montpellier and University Aix Marseille, all in France.

fUTUre inTernATionAlisATion plAns As its research develops, driven by individual researchers, the faculty will continue to grow its international footprint. As before, its research activities will continue to be deeply embedded in international collaborations, and will be supported and encouraged by departments and the faculty. The Dean will make further efforts to identify possible linkages with universities in Africa where infrastructure and opportunities make this possible.


Scholars from the Department of Astronomy will serve as principal investigators on four studies

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that will be run on MeerKAT, the 64-dish radio telescope currently under construction in the Karoo and which will serve as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the multi-billion rand international project that will, in 2024, culminate in the world’s largest radio telescope. The four UCT proposals, or ‘Large Survey Projects’, are among 21 that were approved for the launch of MeerKAT. These 21 projects will involve more than 500 radio astronomers from around the globe, including 59 astronomers from South Africa.

The department’s Dr Sarah Blyth, together with collaborators from the European Space Agency and Rutgers University in the USA, will lead the LADUMA project, an ultra-deep survey of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe. Honorary Professor Erwin de Blok’s Mongoose study will focus on the most recent observations of 30 nearby galaxies, attempting to probe the distribution of dark matter in these galaxies. The MIGHTEE project, led by Dr Kurt van der Heyden and a partner from the University of Oxford, will explore the radio continuum emission from the earliest galaxies. In their ThunderKAT project, Professor Patrick Woudt and an Oxford collaborator will lead the hunt for dynamic and explosive radio transients, both in our own galaxy and across the universe.

Professor Kelly Chibale and his Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D), based in the Department of Chemistry, have started a number of international collaborations in the field of drug discovery. Not least among these is the centre’s partnership with pharmaceutical giant Novartis, through the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research. The partnership was successfully launched in 2012. That same year, the first compound developed by H3-D was approved by the international Medicines for Malaria Venture as a pre-clinical anti-malarial candidate.

The UCT Centre for ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), a research group in the Department of Computer Science, is described as a ‘focal point for those researchers who wish to create ICT appropriate to the needs of the developing world’. From this multidisciplinary centre, researchers endeavour

to create new technologies for the developing world, while also studying the impact of existing technology. Scholars and postgraduate students – from Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Uganda – explore the application of ICT4D in a host of fields, from education and health care to economic development.

Scholars from the Department of Physics are among researchers from around the world who have partnered with the prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), which houses the world’s most state-of-the-art particle accelerators and detectors. Dr Andrew Hamilton and colleagues take their postgraduate students for months-long stays at CERN, where the students can ‘learn and experience science at a truly international scale’. Cesareo Dominguez, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at UCT, was part of several international research collaborations, working with colleagues from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Italy and Mexico, among others.

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COMMERCE

The faculty therefore aims to ensure the following:

> All decisions regarding international links, whether these are student exchanges, semester-abroad programmes or research collaborations, are guided by considerations of academic excellence and support the strategic goals of the faculty and UCT.

> In accordance with UCT’s Afropolitan drive, the focus on links with students and researchers from the African continent remains a strategic priority, especially links involving South African Development Community (SADC) universities.

> In developing international links, the faculty will remain committed to the integrity of its degree offerings and to the best interests of its students, and will not pursue links that risk compromising these goals.

> Where possible, the faculty’s collaborations with international institutions will endeavour to



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IN SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONALISATION POLICY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE

TOWN (UCT), THE FACULTY OF COMMERCE RECOgNISES THAT A COMMITMENT TO

INTERNATIONALISATION HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF ACAdEMIC dELIVERY,

INCLUdINg THE bROAdER SOCIAL CONTExT IN WHICH THAT OCCURS.

International Undergraduate Student Enrolments in the Faculty of Commerce 2006–2012

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

527 511 489 473 541 543 599

International Postgraduate Student Enrolments in the Faculty of Commerce 2006–2012

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

158 175 193 222 218 307 281

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provide opportunities for international exposure to students and staff who might otherwise not have access to these opportunities. In the case of students in particular, those who are supported by the faculty’s Education Development Unit (EDU) are a priority for the faculty’s internationalisation strategy.

> The faculty seeks to encourage bilateral or multilateral agreements with institutions outside South Africa when there are demonstrable mutual benefits for all the partners to the agreement.

Academic Staff LiaisonA key strategy is the formation of research teams and partnerships. Research leaders are best situated to assess the suitability of any partnerships with international staff and institutions. Common research interests have frequently led to teaching, research and visiting fellowship opportunities. The faculty believes that this trend will continue, particularly in light of the faculty’s strategic goals and the incentivisation of research partnerships by revising the ad hominem and promotions criteria.

StudentsThe faculty seeks to establish and formalise long-term, targeted undergraduate relationships that both meet its strategic goals and provide opportunities for EDU students insofar as this is possible. The faculty considers its current procedures and processes of reaching agreements on memoranda of understanding and approving credits as inefficient, and seeks to formalise more stable relationships with partner institutions. These processes will include liaising with the EDU to keep a central database of exchange opportunities; advertising the benefits and existence of these opportunities, in close liaison with the EDU, the Careers Office and the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO); and creating mentorship services for the international students coming to the faculty as part of formal exchanges, in liaison with IAPO, the EDU and other relevant partners, among other things.

With regard to postgraduate students, the faculty believes that the suitability of any student exchange programme will depend on the student’s course of study. As a general

principle, exchanges involving postgraduate students will be best suited to semesterised full-time programmes involving coursework. However, assessments as to the suitability of any postgraduate exchange are best made by the departments concerned.

inTernATionAl sTUdenT overview

International student enrolment has been relatively stable in the past few years with a significant increase in 2012 at the undergraduate level.

UCT Students Sent on ExchangeThe faculty sent 15 students on exchange programmes in 2013. The faculty would like more undergraduate students to take advantage of reciprocal arrangements, but its main constraints are affordability and working within the parameters of the curriculum.

International Visits, Conferences and ColloquiaAcademics and students continue to travel to conferences and meetings around the world. In 2013, the conferences attended included: > the Annual Conference of the Industrial

Marketing and Purchasing Group, hosted by Georgia State University, United States of America (USA)

> the 2013 Emerging Market Conference Board (EMCB) Conference in Port Elizabeth

> the Institute of Food Products Marketing Annual Conference in Budapest, Hungary

> the Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Science Conference in Philadelphia, USA

> the Global Business and Finance Research Conference in Taipei, China, and

> the Associated Marketing Society’s annual conference in Monterey, USA.

> Scholars also attended meetings in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Iceland and Uruguay.

International Linkages A number of international agreements were reached in 2013. The Department of Information Systems signed the Enterprise Systems Education for Africa (ESEFA) contract. This is a three-year project that aims to develop an Enterprise Systems (ES)

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curriculum and community for sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany and the SAP University Alliances programme. The project is co-financed by the German Investment Corporation (DEG), with public funds from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the multinational software company SAP.

The Department of Information Systems also reached a South Africa–Tanzania Research Agreement, funded by the National Research Foundation. This agreement will involve a study exploring the role of Information Technology (IT) in empowering women in rural areas. Tanzania’s Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences will serve as the study partner.

The Research Unit on Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics (RUBEN) signed a MoU with Georgia State University. The agreement is a broad arrangement to co-supervise doctoral students whose theses will be based on collaborative research projects. It also creates agreed parameters for later efforts to develop and seek approval for a co-branded doctoral structure.

Visiting ScholarsAmong the visitors to the faculty were Associate Professor Hope Schau of the University of Arizona, USA; Professor Kweku Osei-Bryson of the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, as part of the faculty’s academic review; Markus Seiler and Eline Huisman from Vienna; and Frederik Zimmer from Oslo, Norway.

Internationalisation HighlightsThe PhD programme in Economics has continued to benefit from the collaboration with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). This programme combines the traditional PhD structure in the School of Economics and a partnership with other universities in Africa. It offers rigorous and competitive training, leading to the award of a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Cape Town. During the

programme, students have the opportunity to learn together with students from other degree-awarding universities in Africa, both at UCT and at a Joint Facility for Electives in Nairobi, Kenya.

The School of Economics has also received funding from the Carnegie Corporation to support individuals who register as postdoctoral research fellows and who may consider pursuing a career in academia in Africa. The intention is to develop a cohort of trainee academics and thereby contribute to growing the next generation of academics in order to strengthen higher education in Africa. Associate Professor Craig West spent one month at Tilburg University in the Netherlands as part of an international staff exchange, with funding granted by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme. This visit facilitated dedicated research time and collaboration with colleagues at Tilburg University.

The Applied International Trade Bargaining programme has become a firm favourite with semester-abroad students since its launch in 2000. The course, the first of its kind at its founding, takes the form of a simulated bargaining session of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). International and local students simulate a WTO session, with the goal of serving the interests of the countries they represent. Student representation is truly international, and includes students from South Africa, the rest of Africa, Europe and North America. Students play the role of international trade diplomats. During the course of their negotiations, the students make and break promises, negotiate bilateral side treaties and use their web presence to build networks. According to Professor Don Ross, the programme founder, the course is a highlight in the academic calendar, as the majority of students are able to represent developing countries, despite coming from first world countries. The programme also provides UCT’s international students with a platform from which to explore the similarities and differences between countries, their goals and their stages of development.

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GRADUATE SCHOOLOF bUSINESS (gSb)

with a recent string of accolades – including the Triple Crown international accreditation – international interest

continues to grow, as the gsb provides essential expertise in emerging markets. in response to this growth in its international standing, the gsb has opened an international relations office, designed to provide a full range of services for all international affairs.

inTernATionAl ACCrediTATions

In 2011, the GSB embarked on a process to earn accreditations from the top three associations in the world, the so-called Triple Crown. The top three associations comprising the Triple Crown are the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). The GSB is now listed among the 59 business schools world-wide to have achieved these accreditations.

inTernATionAl fACUlTy

The GSB has 41 core faculty members. Many of these are internationally acclaimed researchers and teachers, and they spend several months abroad

The GSB is now listed among the

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AMBA and EQUIS accreditations

RATEd AS THE bEST bUSINESS SCHOOL IN AFRICA bY ITS gLObAL PEERS AT THE

EdUNIVERSAL WORLd CONVENTION IN 2010, 2011, 2012 ANd 2013, THE gRAdUATE

SCHOOL OF bUSINESS (gSb) IS COMMITTEd TO bUILdINg AN INTERNATIONAL

REPUTATION. THE gSb’S EFFORTS HAVE PAId OFF, ANd TOdAY THE gSb IS CONSIdEREd

TO bE AMONg THE TOP bUSINESS SCHOOLS IN THE WORLd, AS EVIdENCEd bY

NUMEROUS ACCOLAdES, RATINgS ANd ACCREdITATIONS.

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collaborating with partner schools. These faculty members are dedicated and gifted individuals who contribute directly to the GSB’s reputation for excellence. The faculty is supplemented by more than 70 visiting academics and executives from all over the world, whose input and experience add to the wealth of expertise and depth of knowledge that is available to the school’s students.

inTernATionAl pArTners

In 2013, the GSB set up the South African chapter of the Network for Business Sustainability, which was started in Canada five years ago in close partnership with Canadian colleagues. The GSB has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) with 33 top business schools around the world. These include the London Business School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, New York University’s Stern School of Business, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. In 2013 it also became part of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), a consortium of leading business schools led by Yale University, which facilitates, among other things, short student exchanges.

More recently, MOUs include arrangements with the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and with the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India.

exChAnges

The GSB’s exchange programme enables students to spend a semester at an international university to gain more experience. The GSB has exchange agreements with 33 schools across the globe. In return, the school accepts exchange students from its partner schools, adding an international flavour to

classes. In 2013 alone, the GSB hosted 32 exchange students from its global partners.

The students hailed from the London Business School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. The school also sent 25 MBA students on exchange. Among the partners to have agreed to exchanges in 2014 are Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, the ESADE Business School in Spain, and Cranfield University in the United Kingdom (UK). Thirty-one GSB students are scheduled to travel overseas in 2014.


The GSB hosted the Business of Social and Environmental Innovation (BSEI) conference for the second consecutive year in 2013. In this year the BSEI conference gained increased prominence, and was oversubscribed well before the registration deadline. Keynote speakers included Trevor Manuel, Minister in the Presidency and Chair of the National Development Commission.

The director of the GSB, Walter Baets, has been elected as the next chairperson of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). AABS is a network of African business schools, formally established in October 2005. Through capacity building, collaboration, and quality improvement programmes for Deans or Directors and faculty from African business schools, AABS aims to help build effective business schools to improve management education in Africa and thus enhance the relevance and contribution of business schools to African development.

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FACULTYOF LAW

The faculty values these formal and informal initiatives equally. in the formal arena, the faculty promotes two forms

of agreements. The first are general academic collaboration agreements, which provide the space and opportunity for partner institutions to explore, develop and nurture collaborative research projects that impose no direct economic obligations on the faculty. The second are student and staff exchange agreements, which commit partner institutions to tangible exchange initiatives with economic obligations in the form of reciprocal fee waiver arrangements and/or the provision of stipends and financial support to incoming staff and students.

The faculty recognises that the success of academic collaboration agreements is dependent on individual academics, working in similar substantive areas, who are willing to drive the collaborative process at their respective universities. With student and staff exchanges, the faculty seeks to promote internal and external equity, and in this way to encourage partner institutions from higher income countries to provide

The Faculty of Law hosted

40Semester Abroad Students in 2013.

THE FACULTY OF LAW PLACES A HIgH PREMIUM ON INTERNATIONALISATION, bOTH

WITH REgARd TO AFRICA ANd THE REST OF THE WORLd. THE FACULTY ENCOURAgES

THE MObILITY OF STAFF ANd STUdENTS AbROAd, WELCOMES FOREIgN STUdENTS

ANd ACAdEMICS TO PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL COURSES ANd RESEARCH INITIATIVES, ANd

SEEkS TO FOSTER COLLAbORATIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (AT STAFF,

CENTRE ANd FACULTY LEVEL). THESE INITIATIVES TAkE PLACE FORMALLY, THROUgH

FACULTY-LEVEL AgREEMENTS CONCLUdEd WITH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES, ANd

INFORMALLY, THROUgH INITIATIVES UNdERTAkEN bY ITS RESEARCH UNITS, CENTRES

ANd STAFF.

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support for outgoing students and staff. The faculty is currently party to ten exchange agreements and 13 academic collaboration agreements.

Recognising that internationalisation has to be cost effective, and facing university budget cuts, the faculty aims to be more strategic when making decisions about renewing existing agreements and concluding new student and staff exchange agreements in particular. To guide these decisions, in 2013 the faculty developed pro forma faculty exchange and collaboration agreements to promote clarity and consistency in the conclusion of future agreements, as well as a set of faculty criteria to determine the desirability and viability of additional agreements. The faculty is currently developing a process for proposing and sanctioning the conclusion of additional faculty-level agreements. The internationalisation portfolio is driven by the faculty’s Director of Internationalisation, working together with its Internationalisation and Outreach Committee.

The faculty seeks to pursue internationalisation with an Afropolitan niche, and in recent years has concluded formal academic collaboration agreements with the University of Nigeria, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), the University of Hargeisa (Somalia), the University of Jos (Nigeria), the Faculty of Law of Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), and the University of Rwanda.

Operating principally through its research units and centres, the faculty has undertaken a diverse array of collaborative research initiatives and projects with African partners in the past year. These have been in the areas of customary law, comparative law in Africa, criminal justice, labour law, land law, environmental law, traditional leadership, constitutional law, governance, intellectual property law and refugee law, to name but a few. The research units and centres frequently initiate these collaborative projects and programmes.


The faculty sent four staff members on exchange in 2013 through its formal staff exchange agreements. These academic staff members had the opportunity

to present short courses and undertake short research visits to the University of Maryland (USA), the University of Florida (USA), Queen’s University (Canada), and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). These exchanges reflect only a small proportion of staff mobility. A larger proportion of academics arranged outgoing and incoming research exchanges and short research trips individually or through partnerships and networks formed at the departmental, research unit or individual level.

inTernATionAl visiTs, ConferenCes And ColloqUiA

During the past year the faculty’s departments and research groupings have hosted many foreign academics, and many local academics have in turn participated in countless international conferences, workshops and projects. This provides evidence of the faculty’s standing as a significant focal point for global, regional and local research initiatives.

One significant faculty-led event was the inaugural Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference, held in late March 2013. This conference brought together 35 law deans from Africa and China’s leading law schools to deliberate on the reform of Sino-African legal education, to discuss new mechanisms for cultivating legal talent in the era of globalisation, and to explore possible student and staff exchanges and cooperation strategies between African and Chinese law schools. One particular aim of the conference was to serve as a first step towards further collaboration and the conference resulted in several tangible outcomes. The results included the signing of a Declaration of Intent by all participants to promote several forms of collaboration in the next few years, an offer from the Renmin University of China Law School to host the second Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference in 2015, and the discussion of several exchange opportunities between individual law schools in certain substantive areas of law.

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The faculty received many formal and informal visits from international scholars in 2013. Formal visits included delegations from Stockholm

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University (Sweden), Osgoode University (Canada), Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), the University of Maryland (USA), Humboldt University (Germany), the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and EBS University (Germany). The purposes of these visits included fact-finding missions, meetings to renegotiate the terms of existing agreements, initiatives to foster greater collaboration in terms of existing agreements, and benchmarking exercises, with some universities seeking to establish internationalisation portfolios in their faculties of law. The faculty also hosted a delegation from the Nigerian Federal High Court (seeking vocational training in the area of maritime law and international law of the sea) and a delegation of Australian UCT alumni (to discuss funding opportunities for UCT students on exchange to Australian universities). The above-mentioned visits exclude the numerous visits by foreign scholars arranged by the faculty’s departments and research units, which are simply too numerous to list here.

inTernATionAl linkAges

In addition to individual, unit-level and departmental agreements and collaborations, the faculty currently has academic collaboration agreements with several universities in Africa, Europe, India and Japan, as well as student and staff exchange agreements with institutions in Australia, the USA and Europe. In 2013, the faculty entered into discussions with

several additional universities to explore possible future formal collaborations. These universities included the University of Lagos (Nigeria), the University of New South Wales (Australia), the University of Bergen (Norway), Humboldt University (Germany), Osgoode University (Canada) and Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).

sTUdenT opporTUniTies

The faculty continues to attract senior students from abroad. In 2013, nine foreign students visited the faculty in terms of its formal student exchange agreements with foreign universities. In addition, the faculty hosted 40 Semester Abroad Students in 2013. In the same year, the faculty sent seven local students on exchange to universities in Europe and the USA for either a semester or a full academic year. The faculty has also nominated a further ten students for exchange in 2014, in terms of existing student exchange agreements. The increase in the uptake of exchange opportunities by local students appears to be the result of reforms introduced in the last year to alter nomination criteria (with a view to promoting efficiency, equity and transparency) and to raise foreign financial support for students going abroad on exchange. In addition to the above faculty-driven student exchange opportunities, many additional student mobility opportunities were initiated by the faculty’s departments and research units.

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sTUdenT exChAnge highlighTs

Several of the faculty’s PhD students have also benefited from opportunities to travel and study abroad. Benson Olugbuo, a PhD student in the Department of Public Law, won a Fox International Fellowship to visit the Macmillan Centre at Yale.Moliehi Shale, a PhD student in the Centre of Criminology, was one of 16 fellows selected in the 2012/13 cohort for the International Climate Protection Fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; she was thus given the opportunity to undertake research at the Freie Universität of Berlin. Tairo Mutongwizo, a PhD student also based in the Centre of Criminology, received sponsorship from the IDRC to attend the University for Peace / IDRC Research Methodology Workshop held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in June 2013. Concetta Lorizzo, a PhD student with the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA), spent three months at the University of Lisbon, conducting research under the aegis of the faculty’s collaboration agreement with that university.

fACUlTy highlighTs

There were several internationalisation highlights for the faculty in 2013. As has been mentioned above, the most significant faculty-led initiative was the hosting of the inaugural Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference at UCT in late March 2013. This was but the tip of the iceberg, with the faculty’s departments, research units and individual academics contributing significantly to the faculty’s drive to promote internationalisation both abroad and at home. While the faculty values all these contributions equally, it is unfortunately impossible to describe them all in this brief synopsis. Therefore, mentioned below are a few illustrations of significant initiatives undertaken in 2013 by the faculty’s research units in particular.

The Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA) hosted 40 participants at the inaugural Methodology Workshop on Comparative Law in Africa, designed to promote the dissemination of knowledge, and the study and teaching of comparative law in Africa – a challenging task that requires work across legal traditions and frameworks. In addition, in partnership with other institutions in Africa, the CCLA is currently

seeking to map customary law in Somaliland (with the University of Hargeisa), to consider issues of land tenure from a range of legal traditions in Eritrea, and, through its Mineral Law in Africa Project, to scope and develop academic commentary on comparative mining and mineral laws in Africa (with the University of Botswana, the University of Namibia and the University of Zambia).

The Centre of Criminology, in association with Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (USA), hosted a Workshop in Research Methods and Design in July 2013. Attended by a mix of academics, postgraduate students, parliamentary officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from both jurisdictions, the workshop sought to identify key issues that shape criminology and criminal justice research programmes. The centre also hosted several interns from the African Leadership Centre (Kenya) and King’s College London (United Kingdom) for six-month periods, during which they undertook research in the area of peace, security and justice.

The Centre for Law and Society (CLS) co-hosted the ‘Land Divided’ conference in March 2013. This international conference was arranged to coincide with the centenary of the 1913 Native Land Act and brought together scholars from over 43 international universities, including the University of Oxford, Harvard University, the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Over four days, these international scholars, together with their regional and local counterparts, considered the state of land and South African society in 2013 from a comparative perspective. The past year has also seen a myriad of foreign visitors to the CLS and visits from CLS members to foreign institutions, to participate in several workshops and seminars on issues relating to communal land, traditional leadership and women’s land rights.

The Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU), which serves as the secretariat for the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL), continued with its work to support the African judiciary in 2013. In early 2013, the DGRU hosted a Judicial Forum for over 20 judges from South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho. This was

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followed by a second forum held in October 2013, which was attended by 20 SADC judges and resulted in all present expressly committing to sustaining an ongoing SADC judges’ support programme. In addition, the DGRU presented a commissioned report on the status of the rule of law and constitutionalism in Africa to a high-level meeting of the African Union in Dakar (Senegal) in November 2013.

The Institute of Development and Labour Law (IDLL) assisted Prof Simon Deakin of Cambridge University with a project on Labour Law and Poverty Alleviation in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. The project is jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development. Furthermore, members of the IDLL collaborated on several publications emanating from partnerships formed through the Capturing the Gain (CtG) International Research Programme, and have embarked on a project looking at wage-setting mechanisms, wages and productivity in the clothing sector in South Africa, which forms part of a broader project commissioned by the International Labour Organisation.

The Institute of Marine and Environmental Law (IMEL), together with the Marine Research Institute (MA-Re) and Interpol’s Project Scale, hosted a Fisheries Crime Symposium at UCT in July 2013. This symposium brought together international, regional and domestic experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities for improving fisheries compliance and enforcement. IMEL also hosted 15 judges from the Federal High Court of Nigeria for a vocational visit in August 2013. The judges, whose judicial purview extends to determining marine disputes, attended a series of workshops on South Africa state practice relating to international maritime boundaries and admiralty jurisdiction.

The Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research Unit (IP Unit) hosted the Third Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, considered one of the key international conferences on intellectual property. Nearly 300 academics, advocates, lawyers and government officials from 47 countries took part in the gathering. The conference also featured the launch of the IP Unit’s two new books on intellectual property – Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative

Dynamics in Africa, and Knowledge and Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future. In addition, the IP Unit continued its work as the centre of two of the largest IP networks on the African continent, namely the Open A.I.R. (African Innovation Research) network and Creative Commons Africa.

Last but not least, the Refugee Rights Unit hosted the Expert Roundtable on the International Protection of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence, an initiative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The roundtable was organised as part of a broader project to develop ‘Guidelines on International Protection’ and to clarify the interpretation and application of international and regional refugee law instruments to persons fleeing armed conflict and other situations of violence across international borders. The 30 participants included experts from 15 countries, drawn from governments, NGOs, academia, the judiciary, the legal profession and international organisations.

AlUmni highlighTs

A law degree from UCT can open doors to many opportunities overseas, as these graduates have found. Zimbabwean Pamhidzai Bamu (LLB, LLM and PhD) has availed herself of a number of opportunities following the completion of her doctoral studies at UCT in 2011. She is currently doing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch University. In October 2013, she was one of ten scholars selected for a Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum, where she presented her paper entitled ‘I take goods across the border for a living’: An analysis of Zimbabwe’s informal cross-border traders and cross-border couriers.

Zimbabwean Shingi Masanzu completed her LLB at UCT in 2008, graduating magna cum laude and in the top two per cent of her class. Masanzu was placed on the Dean’s Merit List for every year of her law degree and went to New York University in the USA, where she completed her LLM as a Hauser Global Scholar in 2013. She has since moved to Washington DC, working in the Legal Vice-Presidency of the World Bank.

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ebe serves as a research-intensive faculty, which strives to create, advance and disseminate knowledge, as well as to

develop outstanding graduates and scholars. within this framework, one of the six key performance areas of the faculty’s strategy involves engaging with Africa’s development challenges.

By 2013, students from 49 countries were registered in the faculty, including 37 study-abroad students. The faculty’s internationalisation initiatives include a series of programmes that not only seek to attract students and staff from across the world, but also seek to prepare the faculty’s students for work on the most topical issues in a globalised world.

The faculty’s academics enjoy widespread international research links with scholars and institutions in the Global North, and are slowly but surely establishing similar networks in the South and in Africa, specifically. Understandably, the focus on the continent is more on capacity development. The African Centre for Cities, the African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-Motorised Transport, and the faculty’s Minerals Research Group, among others, have strong Africa-wide research programmes and networks.

The faculty conducts capacity-building work; for example, the Planning Education in Africa project

At undergraduate level,

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THE INTERNATIONALISATION STRATEgY OF THE FACULTY OF ENgINEERINg ANd THE

bUILT ENVIRONMENT (EbE) IS INFORMEd bY ITS VISION OF bECOMINg THE FACULTY OF

CHOICE FOR ENgINEERINg ANd THE bUILT ENVIRONMENT STUdENTS, AS WELL AS FOR

STAFF LOCATEd NATIONALLY ANd INTERNATIONALLY.

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has developed a new Master’s curriculum for the University of Zambia.

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The faculty continues to attract a large number of international students from across the world. At undergraduate level, 18 per cent of our students are international students, and at postgraduate level, about 26 per cent are international students. The staff component has a mix of academics from Africa and the rest of the world.

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School of Architecture, Planning and GeomaticsThe Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS), based in the African Centre for Cities (ACC), is working with the University of Zambia to pilot a new Urban and Regional Planning Master’s programme that commenced in October 2013. Staff members and colleagues from the University of Zambia have collaborated on areas of study and course outlines.

Part of AAPS’s work is running joint studio-teaching modules with Slum Dwellers International (SDI) at a

number of AAPS member schools. In 2013, studios were run in Dar es Salaam and Namibia, and a workshop on collaborative studies was held in Cape Town.

All the ACC programmes are relevant to urban Africa and cities in the Global South, and focus on intellectual, paradigmatic and policy interventions. In 2012 the ACC actively distributed its Cityscapes magazine in Africa. The ACC also aggressively pursued the building out of its UrbanAfrica.net digital portal, which serves as a clearing house for contemporary urban knowledge and provides an interface for exchanging knowledge between urban practitioners and academics. Writers from several African cities were commissioned to file regular reports on urban events in African cities.

The ACC is developing extensive contacts with academic institutions across the continent. Via AAPS, the ACC is networked to 51 institutions; via its State of Cities in Africa (SOCA) project, the ACC is linked to a further five universities (Accra, Addis Ababa, Botswana, Dar es Salaam, Lilongwe); and via the Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) project, it is linked to two universities in Kisumu, Kenya.

The ACC’s research networks across the rest of the world are extensive. They have led to jointly written

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academic papers, the compilation of two edited books, conference and workshop participation, and cross-funding.

The Architecture division of the school is a member of the ArchiAfrika Educational Network, a partnership of architecture schools across the continent. This network aims to develop excellence among the next generation of professionals in the African built environment. This network holds great potential for future collaborations, as well as for staff and student exchanges.

The Geomatics division of the school is highly active in teaching, and in conducting research relevant to Africa. A number of international undergraduate students bring diversity into the classroom. The principles and practice of Geomatics are relevant to the African context and developmental needs. At Master’s and doctoral levels, most students in Geomatics come from countries outside South Africa and many are involved in research relevant to their home contexts.

The well-known Zamani Project under Emeritus Professor Heinz Rüther is a key area of research on heritage documentation for Africa. There has been recent collaboration with the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) African Task Force, which included participating in workshops and hosting a workshop in Cape Town. Geomatics staff have also had the opportunity to visit universities in Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe, with whom academic links have been discussed.

Other noteworthy staff and student accolades include involvement in the International Federation for Landscape Architects (IFLA) World Congress in Cape Town in 2012. This is the largest annual gathering of landscape architects internationally and it featured paper presentations, workshops, and study tours.

In May 2012, Landscape Architecture’s second-year design studio collaborated with students from the International Master’s of Landscape Architecture Programme from Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany. This programme includes students from

around the world. Ten students and a lecturer from Germany visited UCT.

The Landscape Architecture programme is formalising a visit by respected landscape architect Associate Professor Thaisa Way of the University of Virginia, in 2014.

Department of Chemical Engineering The Department of Chemical Engineering has no specific collaboration arrangements with African institutions. A number of its faculty members, however, are involved in student and staff exchanges with universities from elsewhere in Africa.

In 2014, the Department of Chemical Engineering will launch a new Master’s Programme in Education for Sustainable Development in Mining and Processing. The programme will be run in partnership with a number of African and Japanese universities, including the United Nations University in Tokyo and the University of Zambia in Lusaka.

The Minerals to Metals Initiative is a major partner in the Global Minerals Industry Risk Management Programme. This is a worldwide programme that trains mining company executives and managers in safety risk management, with the aim of reducing accidents and fatalities on mines and in mineral processing operations.

Department of Civil Engineering This department has a number of academic staff from the rest of Africa, as well as postgraduate students, funded as Carnegie scholars. The department does not have official student exchanges with African countries, but a large cohort of its student body comes from a range of African countries.

Most of the department’s staff members are actively involved in research relevant to Africa. One such example is the African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-motorised Transport (ACET), which is a collaboration between African universities to facilitate related research in Africa. ACET links the Centre for Transport Studies at UCT with the Department of Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Dar

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es Salaam, Tanzania; the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi; and two other universities in Kenya.

The Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit (CoMSIRU) is involved in developing research capacity development at Masters and doctoral levels for academic staff at the Kigali Institute of Technology, Rwanda; the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The Urban Water Management research unit is a member of a consortium comprising eight universities. A number of universities from Africa are led by UNESCO-IHE in Delft, the Netherlands. This programme looks at stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Centre for Transport Studies engages with universities from the Netherlands, Brazil and India

under the Cycling Academic Network to collaborate on cycling research and joint doctoral student supervision. The centre also regularly hosts three scholars from Europe and the United States of America (USA) to assist with course delivery in its postgraduate programme.

The Information for Community Oriented Municipal Services (iCOMMS) research group in the department has completed studies in Mozambique, Cambodia and Vietnam. The group’s focus is on the delivery of basic amenities – such as water and health care – and public services to rural communities in developing countries. The group is specifically focused on tapping into the growing potential of mobile technologies. A number of iCOMMS projects are inspired by the group’s students, many of whom hail from elsewhere in Africa.

CoMSIRU staff have actively participated in research with a number of institutions abroad. These include

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the University of Hanover, Germany; the Technion Haifa, Israel; EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland; the University of British Columbia, Canada and the University of Toronto, Canada, among others.

Department of Construction Economics and Management All research activities within this department relate, to a greater or lesser degree, to Africa. A case in point is the research project concerning the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the South African construction industry with relation HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, research into property valuation specifically focuses on the South African or African context.

The department’s staff complement of 12 also reflects internationalisation. Two staff members are from the rest of Africa – one from Nigeria and one from Zambia. One of the part-time lecturers hails from Nigeria. Associate Professor Viruly is President of the African Real Estate Society, and is engaged in promoting research links and collaborative research with sub-Saharan African institutions.

The department has been part of a student exchange agreement with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, since 2010. This exchange is open to students from the MSc Project Management and MSc Property Studies programmes, as well as to MPhil students. A six-week German language course is held twice a year as part of the exchange agreement.

The department has also entered into a memorandum of agreement to establish formal links with the University of Salford, United Kingdom, with the intention to facilitate staff and student interaction and research collaboration. Both institutions will encourage direct contact and cooperation between their faculty and administrative staff.

The department has also frequently hosted visitors. A noteworthy visit was that of Dr Peter Edwards of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Edwards lectures on the department’s postgraduate module dealing with risk management, and undertakes collaborative research with department scholars, including Professor Paul Bowen, who is a visiting professor to RMIT.

Department of Electrical Engineering The department’s scholars form part of numerous research collaborations. Among these is the CSIR–UCT–East Coast Access (ECA) Consortium, which undertook the research, development and commercialisation of the ARTIST Project, an advanced video streaming technology for low-bandwidth areas, predominantly situated in developing countries.

To address the growing need for skilled engineers and scientists in the field of radar and electronic defence, the faculty partnered with the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) to establish a Master’s degree in this field. International collaborators include the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, which co-funds the programme.

Department of Mechanical Engineering The department has established exchanges with the rest of Africa through the work done by its Energy Research Centre (ERC). With funding from Sweden, exchanges have been able to reach into Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique and Rwanda.

The Aeronautical Research Group has a longstanding partnership with AIRBUS, the aircraft manufacturing division of the Airbus Group (formerly European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company), based in France. Four students from the group have developed a new technology for fuel sloshing loads. In addition, ASTRIUM, Europe’s highest ranked space company, has engaged with the group on the generation of rocket and satellite launch technology.

Other research partners include the Graz University of Technology, Austria; the Vienna University of Technology; Cambridge University; Électricité de France (EDF); and the Brazilian government, via the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, which is part of the ERC. The ERC’s Energy, Poverty and Development group is also an affiliate of the Global Network for Sustainable Energy for Development, facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Through this network, the group is able to participate in a strong international network of research centres.

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some of its internationalisation activities have developed as a result of external drivers, such as donor-funded strategic

priorities. others have resulted from internal developments, such as the demands on the Careers service Unit to attend more appropriately to the needs of international students. These activities have been rich opportunities for collaboration and learning.

visiTors

The various units in CHED continue to attract regular visitors and collaborators. Over the past year, these units have hosted guests from organisations and institutions that include:

> Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)

> the Apereo Foundation, the United States-based producer of open-source software

> the Biggio Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Auburn University, USA

> the Carnegie Corporation> the University of Oulu, Finland> King’s College, London> Stockholm University, Sweden> the University of Rochester, USA, and > the University of Sydney, Australia.



51in 2012 to

98in in 2013

THE CENTRE FOR HIgHER EdUCATION dEVELOPMENT (CHEd) ENgAgES WITH

INTERNATIONALISATION AS A CROSS-FACULTY UNIT THAT CONTRIbUTES TO CONTINUAL

IMPROVEMENT IN THE qUALITY OF HIgHER EdUCATION.

CENTREFOR HIgHER EdUCATION dEVELOPMENT (CHEd)

F A C U L T I E S


inTernATionAl linkAges

A key recommendation from a 2011 review conducted by the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) was that the Careers Service should identify targeted employment opportunities for international students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in their countries of origin. To this end, the Careers Service travelled to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to meet with potential employers, alumni and UCT partners. A trip to the South African Development Community (SADC) countries was also planned for 2014. In 2013, the Careers Service launched a new series of publications entitled Grad Africa: Graduate Opportunities in Africa, a series of handbooks that aim to introduce and explore opportunities within these burgeoning markets. In addition, the unit organised a follow-up seminar entitled ‘Job Search Beyond Borders’.

In 2013, the director of the Careers Service made a presentation on the topic ‘Are South African graduates ready for work?’ at the annual conference of Inyathelo, or the South African Institute for Advancement. A keynote presentation was also made at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK), for the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service (AGCAS) biennial conference. The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), formerly the Centre for Educational Technology, organised and ran ‘e/merge 2012 – Open to Change’, the fourth virtual conference on educational technology in Africa, as well as a series of follow-up events. These events included an online seminar in 2013 and the release of the e/merge Africa Report.

CILT received a grant of US$1.4 million from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the introduction of a new Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Technology and the development of an African eLearning Network. Seventeen places were offered for the inaugural running of the programme in 2014.

CILT is convening ‘Research on Open Educational Resources for Development’ (ROER4D), a three-year project funded by Canada’s International

Development Research Centre, which looks at how open educational resources can address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality and affordable tertiary education in the Global South. Other countries included in the project are Ghana, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mongolia. UCT joined the universities of Botswana, Mauritius and Namibia for the ‘Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme’ (SCAP), a three-year research and implementation initiative aimed at increasing the production, publication and visibility of African research through open and digital scholarly communication practices.

The ‘OpenUCT Initiative’, a programme managed by CILT, aims to share and profile UCT scholarship both within and beyond the institution. The programme, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, builds on the work of a number of ‘open-focused’ research and implementation initiatives that have taken place, over a decade, in CHED. In line with UCT’s Afropolitan agenda, the open content produced and shared through the work of the ‘OpenUCT’ Initiative and other projects has made UCT a significant contributor to knowledge-sharing and educational development on the continent.

In 2014, the School of Education, in conjunction with CILT, launched a new one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Technology, which complements the Master’s Programme in ICTS for Education. The programme focuses on emerging technologies and their role in teaching 21st century learners. As a result of support from the Carnegie and Mellon Foundations, competitive scholarships are available to students from Africa. This diploma programme is an extension of a Mellon Foundation grant that has helped over 40 students from 12 African countries to undertake postgraduate studies in information and communication technologies in higher education.

CILT believes in cultures of open sharing and collaboration, including active engagement in professional networks. As a unit, CILT is committed to sharing its work and practices to support the development of the educational technology profession in South Africa and across Africa. This has been achieved through:

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> building an Africa-wide e-learning network, especially in Africa

> contributing expertise and leadership through presentations, consulting and teaching

> contributing software to higher education open source projects

> contributing research and disseminating research in new ways, for example, through blogs

> enabling UCT academics to share open teaching and learning resources through UCT OpenContent, using Creative Commons licences, and

> promoting open academic practices.

The Centre for Open Learning (COL) contributes to internationalisation in a number of ways. The UCT Summer School attracts thousands of students each year, many from outside South Africa. COL is working with the Heritage Society in the Department of Alumni and Development to discuss ways in which international alumni can benefit from this annual programme. The London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Studies/UCT annual July School was launched in 2013. Lecturers from LSE and UCT teach this course, which attracts students from UCT and across the world. Lastly, customised, short International Island programmes were offered by

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COL until the end of 2013 by special arrangement to international student groups. In 2014, these programmes were moved to a new administrative centre in IAPO.

Examples of the International Island programme courses and thematic focus areas include:

> Insights into South African history, aimed at history students and enthusiasts

> The politics of South Africa > Environmental-management approaches to

environmental challenges in South Africa > Addressing social and development-related

questions in a democratic South Africa > Insights into and issues related to the South

African economy > The challenges of HIV/AIDS in Africa > Health and development in the South

African context


CONTACTSinTernATionAl ACAdemiC progrAmmes offiCeMain Office - Level 3, Masingene Building, Middle CampusIAPO Mobility Centre - Ivan Toms Building, Matopo Road, Mowbray Phone: 021 650 2822 / 3740 Fax: 021 650 5667 E-mail: [email protected] IAPO Website: www.iapo.uct.ac.za Facebook: IAPO @ UCT Twitter: @IAPOatUCTConfucius Website: www.confucius.uct.ac.zaConfucius Facebook: www.facebook.com/ uctconfuciusConfucius Twitter: @ConfuciusUCT

fACUlTy of CommerCeLeslie Commerce Building, Engineering Mall, Upper Campus Phone: 021 650 4375/5748 Fax: 021 650 4369 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.commerce.uct.ac.za

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grAdUATe sChool of bUsiness (gsb)8 Portswood Road, V & A Waterfront Phone: 021 406 1911 Fax: 021 406 1070 E-mail: [email protected]: www.gsb.uct.ac.za

Admissions offiCe Level 4, Masingene Building, Cross Campus Road, Middle Campus Phone: 021 650 2128 Fax: 021 650 3736 E-mail: [email protected]

reseArCh offiCe Location: Allan Cormack House, 2 Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray Phone: 021 650 5440 Fax: 021 650 5768 Email: [email protected]: www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za

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name section position name

Prof Evance Kalula Directorate Director: Internationalisation

Ms Felicity Mashodi Directorate PA to Director

Mr Jerome September Directorate Advisor: Special Projects

Ms Kimi Keith Systems, Communication & Information

Manager: Systems, Communication & Information

Mr Marquin Swartland Systems, Communication & Information

Front Office Liaison

Mrs Benita Fisher Systems, Communication & Information

Front Office Liaison

Mr Tanwier Hendricks

Mrs Theresa Tallack

Systems, Communication & Information

Systems, Communication & Information

Front Office Assistant

International Visits Administrator

Ms Carol Ojwang African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Manager: African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Mr Moses Pieterse African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Coordinator: International Full Degree Students

Ms Nosizwe Mgudlwa African Partnerships and Study Programmes

International Student Advisor

Mrs Cornelia Williams African Partnerships and Study Programmes

International Student Administrator

Mrs Norma Derby African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Programme Officer

Mr Patrick Mkoba African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Co-ordinator MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Ms Insaaf Isaacs African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Recruitment and Peer Mentor Officer: MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Mr Riyaadh Fakier African Partnerships and Study Programmes

Finance and Administration Officer: MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Mr Wayne Wagenaar Finance Manager: Finance

INTERNATIONALACAdEMIC PROgRAMMES OFFICE – STAFF MEMbERS


Mrs Sharon Eaton Barnes Finance Assistant Finance Manager

Ms Lindy Duncan Finance Finance Officer

Mr Simbulele Kotyi Finance Finance Officer

Mr Leon Petersen Finance Finance Officer

Mrs Galiema Darries Finance Finance Officer

Ms Lara Dunwell Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Manager: Mobility Partnerships & Programmes

Ms Penny van Zyl Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Co-ordinator: Student Life & Exchanges

Ms Stephanie van Heerden Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Exchange Officer

Mr Jody Felton Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Administrator: Housing

Ms Loren Joseph Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Administrator: Partnerships

Mrs Sharon Turner Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Coordinator: SSA Academic

Ms Melissa O’Shea Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mr Henry Williams Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mrs Erin Pienaar Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mrs Sophia Carr Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Prof Shengyong Qin Confucius Institute Chinese Director

Mrs Nicola Latchiah Short Term International Programmes Manager: Short Term International Programmes

Mr Jonathan Mitchell Short Term International Programmes Administrator

Mrs Yu Yang Confucius Institute Administrator

Mr Zhenyu Wang Confucius Institute Volunteer

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the global higher education community participating at UCT”.

Produced by:International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO)

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