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Understanding the linkages between community engagement and teaching and research: the case of Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This thesis sought to understand the various ways in which Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania, as a teaching and research institution, engages with its communities. This was prompted by the increasing calls ...
Higher education and democracy in Botswana: Attitudes and behaviours of students and student leaders towards democracy
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study investigates the attitudes of students and student leaders towards democracy in terms of their demand for democracy, their perception of the supply of democracy, and their awareness of and participation in ...
The contribution of student activities to citizenship education: a study of engagement at a South African research university
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study seeks to determine to what extent undergraduate students in a research university in South Africa are involved in activities that contribute to citizenship education. The research design involves a case study ...
Addressing the needs of underachieving students in an extended curriculum programme
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of support services offered to Extended Curriculum Programme students in a South African university. The primary goals of support services in higher education are to ...
Student politics and the funding of higher education in South Africa: the case of the University of the Western Cape, 1995-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This dissertation examines various ways in which the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa, confronted the paradoxical post-apartheid higher education policy of expansion of access to historically ...
Addressing the needs of underachieving students in an extended curriculum programme
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of support services offered to Extended Curriculum Programme students in a South African university. The primary goals of support services in higher education are to ...
Pre-service science teachers’ conceptual and procedural difficulties in solving mathematical problems in physical science
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Students frequently leave first-year physical science classes with a dual set of
physical laws in mind- the equations to be applied to qualitative problems and the
entrenched set of concepts, many erroneous, to be applied ...