Prof. Brendon Knott, Cape Peninsula University of Technology The COVID-19 pandemic may have prohibited international travel, yet in some cases, it also provided a catalyst to design new online means of international engagement. Academics from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and the School of Marketing and Management at Coventry University, UK, realised that […]
Divinia Jithoo, Durban University of Technology. On the 16th of February 2021, DUT was presented with the 2021 Global award for innovation and excellence in Internationalisation at the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) annual conference in a virtual ceremony. DUT is also the first institution outside of the USA and Europe to win this […]
Sally Frost, UKZN UKZN’s Professor Steve Johnson has obtained an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF). This is the highest rating that the NRF awards to ‘researchers who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and wide impact (ie beyond a narrow field […]
University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) much-anticipated Phoenix hybrid rocket test flight at the world-class Denel Overberg Test Range in the Western Cape has been a resounding success. The successful flight took place on 8 March when a gap in the weather provided suitable launch conditions. The Phoenix-1B Mk IIr vehicle soared to a new high altitude […]
Hlengiwe Khwela, UKZN UKZN has developed the Msizi Chatbot to enhance the student and visitor experience for 2021 online registrations. Launched at the beginning of February, the Chatbot is a computer programme designed to mimic human conversation and provide predetermined answers by interpreting words given to it in the chat interface. Named Msizi – isiZulu […]
Nelson Mandela University and the Mandela International Office have admitted over 650 new international students into undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the 2021 academic year. The university also welcomed 12 study abroad and exchange students from France, Germany and Sweden for the first semester. The new students will join about 700 returning international students at the […]
IEASA has been represented in the AIEA conference which offered the first day free to all members. IEASA was represented at the first NIEA meeting of 2021 by Dr Lavern Samuels and Ms Orla Quinlan. Dr Samia Chasi and Brightness Mangolothi Director: HERS-SA Dr Chasi represented IEASA at HERS-SA Academy in Cape Town Orla Quinlan, IEASA […]
Warm greetings to all of our membership; colleagues; friends and all those that continue to express a keen interest in internationalisation, within the higher education aren. Please allow me to start off by expressing my sincerest gratitude and appreciation for the support I have received in my journey to becoming President of IEASA. It is […]
By Refilwe Moleyane, Central University of Technology (CUT) The Erasmus+ YEBO project on Internationalisation of Doctoral Education in South Africa aims to foster the internationalisation of doctoral studies in South Africa by raising awareness among students, academic and administrative staff members at higher education institutions of funding opportunities and by providing professional training and tools, […]
Lest we forget the days of face to face engagement, several IEASA members physically attended the AIEA conference “Rethinking Comprehensive internationalisation for a Global World”, February 15-19 2020, (https://www.aieaworld.org/2020-annual-conference), at which the President presented in one and facilitated two other separate sessions. After the conference, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, held a conference […]
