Fundani Centre for Higher Education Development
About us
Fundani CHED is ubuntu-based centre of excellence, which is responsible for promoting learning and teaching within CPUT. We engage with and offer development to the institution’s faculties, academic staff and students through academic guidance, resources and research into teaching and learning. Our work is framed around ONE SMART CPUT, placing students and staff at the heart of interventions, programmes and innovative strategies. This means that we are mindful of the continued inequalities and injustices that exists within higher education and thus we strive to incorporate this awareness in everything we do. Our approach is further underpinned by the values of kindness, restoration, unity, passion, accountability, and technological astuteness, as outlined in the CPUT Vision 2030.
Services
- Students development
- Staff development
- Administrative support
The core mandate is to improve learning & teaching experience, sustain curricula responsiveness, and decolonise the university. Fundani CHED has the following units:
- Staff Development Unit,
- Language & Academic Literacy Unit,
- Curriculum Development Unit,
- Student Transition, Access, Retention & Success (STARS) Unit.
Fundani is also tasked to ensure that students are equipped with the following Graduate Attributes when completing their studies at CPUT:
- Relational Capability – give expression to the Ubuntu philosophy (standing in the shoes of others)
- Technological Capability – confidently use technology (recognising that society, technology and science are intertwined).
- Resilience and Problem-Solving Capability – become a problem-solver (recognising the complexity of problem-solving in society).
- Ethical Capability - having an orientation to the well-being and improvement of society rather than just ensuring the well-being and advancement of themselves.
