Academic Staff Quality Desk launched
KEY INITIATIVE: The launch marks an exciting step towards positioning staff as active partners in sustaining a culture of accountability, excellence, and transformative quality.
Thursday, 04 December 2025
CPUT recently celebrated the launch of the Academic Staff Quality Desk (ASQD), a key initiative designed to elevate quality assurance, amplify staff voices, and foster a transformative quality culture across the institution.
The ASQD will serve as a strategic platform that empowers academic staff to actively engage in quality assurance processes, promotes continuous improvement, and advances excellence in teaching, learning, research and community engagement at CPUT.
During the event, which was held at the Premier Hotel in Sea Point, guests were welcomed by Prof Rashieda Toefy, Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, who emphasised that “all aspects of what we are doing are governed by quality management”.
The Quality Management Directorate’s Ernestina Ansen, who outlined the purpose of the ASQD, said: “We realised that there were some key voices that were lacking, key voices that were not heard. We also realise that we need to partner with the staff because staff and students are the key role players in our institution when it comes to the core academic business.
“We want academic staff to critically engage in our institutional quality reviews …and we want to also strengthen the academic integrity across all faculties. We also want our academic staff to be actively involved in all quality management systems within the institution.”
Prof Rishidaw Balkaran, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Learning and Teaching, delivered a word of support and noted the importance of the ASQD.
“It creates the opportunity for us to integrate the way in which we see quality within the university.”
Chairperson of the ASQD executive committee, Althea Whitaker, reflected on the journey this fair and introduced the members of the committee, which is made up of Whitaker, Naeem Seedat, Angelique Walbrugh and Ashley de Jager.
Dr Siyanda Makaula, Director of the Quality Management Directorate, said the ASQD was conceptualised to create a platform for academic staff to be able to engage in quality matters.
He thanked the executive committee for their work thus far before officially launching the ASQD.
Messages of support were delivered by representatives from the various faculties and the Student Quality Desk.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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