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IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Volume 1, Issue 185
MUT’s visit to East Africa bears immediate fruit
22 - 29 May 2015
MUT’s visit to East Africa
bears immediate fruit
Mangosuthu University of Technology’s executive management has
taken upon itself to explore Africa for educational linkage
partnerships in research, academic staff exchanges, curriculum
development and student exchanges. In April 2015, Professor
Mashupye
Kgaphola,
the
Vice-Chancellor
led
an
Lead and perform
academically:
transformational
leadership for the SRC
executive
management delegation study tour to East Africa. The delegation
included Professor Marcus Ramogale, DVC Academic, and Vuyo
Mthethwa, the Executive Director in the Office of the VC. They
MUT staff running the
90th Comrade Marathon
this weekend
visited four universities in Kenya and Tanzania. “The visit has been
a learning experience for our delegation, and has created a strong
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foundation for a number of potential partnerships and collaborations
Today
Launch of the Alumni
Liveable Space Project
going forward”, said Professor Kgaphola.
MUT's VC, Prof Kgaphola, with NM-AIST's VC,
Prof Mwamila
One of the universities visited was the
Nelson
Mandela
African
Institution
for
7 June
MUT takes part in Spar
Ladies Challenge
Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania. As a result of this visit MUT
was able to secure NM-AIST’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Burton Mwamila, to be
hosted by the African Renaissance Conference at the Durban’s ICC from 26-27 May
2015. Accompanying Professor Mwamila was a PhD student, Jofrey Raymond. Both
Professor Mwamila and Raymond have had further engagements at MUT. Professor
Jofrey Raymond
12 June
Policy Development Unit,
Public Lecture
Mwamila addressed a special MUT Senate sitting; Jofrey addressed the SRC during its strategic planning
meeting on 23 May 2015, and the final year students on 27 May 2015. Jofrey, in both cases, used his story to
inspire the student leaders. In September 2015, the MUT’s Dean of Students, Thami Mchunu, will lead a
delegation of students across the four East African universities for benchmarking purposes on
entrepreneurship, leadership and cultural immersion.
Lead and perform academically: transformational leadership for the SRC
In an effort to inspire positive change in student leadership, Professor Mashupye Kgaphola, MUT’s ViceChancellor and Mr Thami Mchunu, the dean of students, have
co-authored
a
paper
motivating
for
higher
22 July
Open Day at
PMB City Hall
24 July
MUT Open Day
Seme Hall
3-4 September
Empowered
Administrators
Conference
academic
10-11 September
Co-operative Education
Directorate, Careers Fair
requirements for student leadership. “One of our strategic
goals is to promote a responsible and high performing student
population. To this end, the role played by student leaders and
their relevant attributes becomes crucial. Specifically, student
leaders are expected to understand that they must embrace
academic excellence as it is espoused in the Student
Representative Council (SRC) Constitution, and that they
should translate this into practical action. In practice, the current
From left: Prof Kgaphola, Jofrey Raymond and
Mchunu, with students in the background
requirement means that, for example, a student who has passed 3 out of 5 subjects (60%) automatically
qualifies to be a candidate for SRC elections. In the circumstances, it is immaterial that the student might have
an average of 50% in all the subjects concerned. We have observed that some SRC members who fell under
this category in the past have generally performed very poorly in their academic work during their tenure. “
MUT staff running the 90th Comrade Marathon
this weekend
Dumisani Ndlovu, Blessing Ndlovu, Nkosinathi Ndlovu, Themba Ngcobo, Robert
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