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Facilitating university sustainability through decision-oriented financial reporting
(2006)
The study shows the financial impacts on costs per student at academic module level, at departmental level, at faculty level, and at institutional level, thereby showing the effects of cross-subsidisation at all levels of ...
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 ...
Effects of a dialogical argumentation instructional model on grade 10 learners’ conceptions of lightning
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The study employed a quasi-experimental design to determine the effect of DAIM on learners’ conceptions of lightning. The experimental group was taught using DAIM while the control group was taught the same content using ...
Examining the incentives for knowledge production : the case of the University of Nairobi in Kenya
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Following the understanding that incentives influence behaviour both in terms of eliciting and sustaining it, this thesis seeks to explore the link between incentives and knowledge production at the University of Nairobi. ...
Grade 10 dropout predisposition and resilience in one rural and one urban secondary school in the Kizito Cluster of the Caprivi Education Region in Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The study investigated school dropout predisposition and resilience at Grade 10 level in one rural and one urban secondary school in the Kizito Cluster of the Caprivi Education Region in Namibia. Part of the study was by ...
Difficulties encountered by the grade ten township learners with respect to the concept of electricity
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties encountered by the grade ten township learners with respect to the concept of electricity. More specifically, the study attempted to explore the learners’ ...
Investigating Pre-service Natural Science Teachers’ perceptions of earth in space through spatial modelling and argumentation
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study involves a group of pre-service teachers who are specialising in Science and Mathematics education at a university in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The aim of the study was to investigate perceptions ...
Workplace learning and the workplace educator: a South African retail story
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
This study investigated how workplace educator development programmes prepare workplace educators for their roles and responsibilities in facilitating learning in the workplace. Framed by the literature, the research shows ...
An analysis of the governance of higher education access in malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2013-01)
Over the past few years researchers have been studying access reforms, as well as uncovering
challenges related to systems with low participation rates; Examples of this type of work are
Teferra and Altbach (2003), ...
Digital literacy: ICT intergration in grade 10 english first additional language teaching
(2011)
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) both in the General Education and Training (GET) and Further Education and Training (FET) bands is viewed as an innovative tool in enhancing a learner-centered ...