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The leadership role of principals in managing HIV and AIDS at schools of the Western Cape Education Department
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The HIV and AIDS epidemic is deemed the single greatest threat to South Africa's future and its growth in one of the most rapid in the world. The South African government has marked 2006 as the year of accelerated HIV and ... -
Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)This study investigated the following: “Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town”. Stueart and Moran (1998) state that despite the vast amount of knowledge, training and focus on management, little ... -
Leadership training and development of principals at selected primary schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study sets out to investigate to what extent primary school principals in the Western Cape are currently being developed as leaders, in order for them to positively impact on their schools' performance. Other school ... -
Learners' and teachers’ translanguaging practices in a grade 8 English home language classroom in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Although translanguaging has been lauded as a valuable pedagogical strategy in multilingual classrooms worldwide, little is known about the South African Grade 8 English Home language learners’ translanguaging practices ... -
Learners' experience of the integration of theory and practice in a wholesale and retail generalist (NQF Level 2) learnership
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Skills development is essential for every country to keep abreast with, at least one aspect of globalisation, namely, changes regarding production in the modern world. The way in which each country implements its skills ... -
Learners' motivations for preferred contexts in mathematical literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The National Curriculum Statement introduced mathematical literacy officially in 2006. Learners in general perform poorly at mathematics in South Africa but there is strong belief that learners should graduate from schools ... -
Learnerships and employability: A Case Study of a private provider's delivery of a learnership in the Information Technology sector.
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)In this research paper, I explore the relationship between learnerships and employability. Will I get a job after completing a learnership? This question is posed by many if not most learners participating in learnerships. ... -
Learnerships and transformation in the insurance industry
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This case study explored the lessons arising from the implementation of the Insurance Preparedness Project. This was a pilot project funded by the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority as part of a strategy for ... -
Learning English for academic purposes in higher education in Rwanda : a case study of a College of Business and Economics
(University of the Western Cape, 2015-03)Findings also indicate other drawbacks such as some teachers' transmission of errors due to their low proficiency in the English language, their lack of common and well-designed EAP curricula, their lack of cooperation ... -
Learning for the future, earning for now : students' experiences of the work-study programme at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study does an in-depth exploration of how students experience full-time study and part-time employment, focusing on participants in the work-study programme of the University of the Western Cape. By means of the ... -
Learning orientations of FET students: the case of the Applied Learning Programme in a Western Cape FET college
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This study investigated the reasons why FET part-time students enrolled at a FET college by examining their learning orientations. Guided by the literature, the focus was on the vocational orientation to learning and ... -
Learning to Exhale
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)My MA mini-thesis in Creative Writing is a collection of 33 poems titled Learning to Exhale. The poems are centred around a character – a black African woman who is sharing her experiences of mental illness. The poems ... -
Learning to manage workplace stress as practiced by teachers at three under-resourced Western Cape High Schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)The focus of the study is the teacher in the under-resourced schools in the townships of the Western Cape. The purpose is to discover how teachers learn to cope under adverse working conditions. In a systematic way, we try ... -
Left versus right canonical wiener-hopf factorization for rational matrix functions: an alternative version
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)It is an established fact that both canonical and non-canonical Wiener-hopf factorizations of matrix functions play an important role in various aspects of mathematical analysis and its applications. Indeed, for instance, ... -
Legacies of transformational leadership: A critical analysis of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s social agency role in a time of new Kairos challenges
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)In 1985/6, the Kairos Documents emerged from the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of an evil political ideology called ‘apartheid’ and the serious challenges it presented to the church and society. ... -
A legal analysis of legislation and policies on the right to basic education in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The right to a basic education is recognised as an essential right in international and regional law, with numerous instruments regulating it.1 There are soft laws, in the form of General Comment documents, which provide ... -
A legal analysis of legislation and policies on the right to basic education in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The right to a basic education is recognised as an essential right in international and regional law, with numerous instruments regulating it.1 There are soft laws, in the form of General Comment documents, which provide ... -
A legal analysis of provincial intervention in a municipality
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)With the introduction of the 1996 Constitutor local government was for the first time in South African history acknowledged as a fully-fledged 'sphere' of government and its role and responsibilities as an equal partner ... -
A legal analysis of the appointment of caretakers to act as council in terms of Zimbabwe's section 80 of the Urban councils Act
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The monitoring and supervision of local government is usually done by central governments. However in some countries like South Africa where there three spheres of government the provincial executive is charged with the ... -
Legal and economic uncertainties clouding digital taxation : unpacking and addressing the issues
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The digital economy has over the past years developed at a dramatic pace, generating substantial revenues for entities and individuals trading on this platform. This has fuelled vast interest and debate into whether such ...