Service Learning and Community Engagement short programme graduates first class
GRADUATES: CPUT lecturers were commended for their participation in a short course on SL and CE.
Monday, 11 November 2013
CPUT has graduated its first batch of lecturers in a short course on Service Learning and Community Engagement.
The regional programme was coordinated by the Community Interaction Centre at Stellenbosch University in partnership with the Community Engagement Unit at UWC and the Service-Learning Unit at CPUT.
SL and CE have become core functions of the higher education sphere in recent years and through teaching, learning and research- universities are encouraged to engage with the communities around them to solve a variety of societal issues.
CPUT’s own SL unit won a top prize at a recent conference attended by all Universities of Technology and was commended for great strides taken in encouraging all courses to adopt the programme.
Lecturers Nicholas Pinfold, Pavla Mokeona, Fattinald Rangogo, Dr Felix Nchu and Desmond Jackson kept CPUTs flag high during the short course with three of them graduating with distinction.
All of the lecturers are already involved in highly successful projects with Pinfold’s class having redesigned the layout of an informal settlement and Jackson’s class having used innovative sandbag building techniques in the construction of low cost housing. Mokeona’s project includes a partnership with WESGROW to develop emerging enterprises and Nchu’s students train the community to establish and improve their food gardens.
The graduates were part of an inaugural class selected from the three universities and it is hoped the course will later become mandatory for all lecturers at higher education institutions who engage in Service-Learning.
Written by Lauren Kansley
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