Higher Education Summit
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) will be hosting the Higher Education (HE) Summit on 22 and 23 April 2010.
The Summit is the initiative of the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, and is the first of a number of initiatives aimed at building a common understanding of higher education and a sense of cohesion between the various stakeholders involved in the sector.
Accordingly, the Summit will seek to:
- Revisit the notion of transformation holistically, focusing on issues of access, equity and quality in relation to the core functions of higher education;
- Examine the role of higher education in national development;
- Identify key objectives for the higher education sector and;
- Discuss the need, feasibility and possible modalities for more systematic and structured communication between the sector and the Minister of Higher Education and Training.The Minister has requested that all HE institutions advertise the HE Summit as broadly as possible so as to encourage a full engagement internally, prior to the Summit. This debate needs to focus on the “Soudien Report” and transformation more generally within the HE sector. The Minister has encouraged the use of an inclusive approach to this internal engagement.The CEPD website and hyperlink is: www.cepd.org.za
- Staff and students are encouraged to make full use of this opportunity to present their ideas.
- As part of our efforts to initiate debate prior to the Summit, the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD) has set up a pre-Summit, online discussion forum.
Written by CPUT News
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