Undergraduate engineering training through institutional collaboration in the Southern African region.

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dc.citation.doiDOI: 10.4314/sajhe.v19i4.25663en_ZA
dc.citation.epage753en_ZA
dc.citation.issue4en_ZA
dc.citation.spage735en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorIlemobade, A.A.
dc.contributor.authorBallim, Y.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-04T12:55:16Z
dc.date.available2016-11-04T12:55:16Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and The University of Namibia (UNAM) signed an Agreement of Co-operation (AOC) in 2000. This agreement, which formalised an existing informal collaboration, was primarily targeted at facilitating the transfer of potential Unam undergraduate engineering students to pursue engineering studies at the WITS Faculty of Engineering as well as improving staff collaboration in research and teaching. Students from UNAM's pre-engineering programme and science departments have been beneficiaries of this agreement. Four years later, an evaluation of the collaboration reveals critical issues vis-à-vis decreasing student enrolments, unimpressive student graduation rates, and financial and operational complexities affecting student mobility - all of which have institutional as well as regional implications. This paper presents highlights and pertinent lessons of the collaboration, and recommendations for similar collaboration in the Southern African region both at an institutional and regional level. As a whole, the paper uses the Wits experience to extrapolate principles and strategic issues facing institutions involved in academic collaboration and cross-border movement of students within the Southern Africa region.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMvdH2016en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth Africa±Norway Tertiary Education Development programme.en_ZA
dc.description.urlhttp://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajhe/article/view/25663en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationIlemobade, A.A. and Ballim, Y. 2005. Undergraduate Engineering training though institutional collaboration in the Southern African region. South African Journal of Higher Education 19(4) 735-753. DOI: 10.4314/sajhe.v19i4.25663en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1011-3487 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/21420
dc.journal.titleSouth African Journal of Higher Education.en_ZA
dc.journal.volume19en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherHigher Education South Africa (HESA).en_ZA
dc.rightsThis journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.en_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic collaborationen_ZA
dc.subjectStudent mobilityen_ZA
dc.subjectUndergraduate engineeringen_ZA
dc.subjectSouthern Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectTertiary educationen_ZA
dc.subjectEngineering educationen_ZA
dc.titleUndergraduate engineering training through institutional collaboration in the Southern African region.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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