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HERS-SA ACADEMY 2010
will take place from
Sunday
12 to Saturday 18 September 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT: click here
APPLICATION FORM: click here
DRAFT PROGRAMME: click here
VENUE: University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa
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HERS-SA NEWSLETTER December 2009 - click here
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RESEARCH NEWS
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SOUTH AFRICAN CONNECTION IN DECLARATION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
HERS-SA remains an active member of the Women in Higher Education Management (WHEM) network via one of our Board Members, Dr. Sarah Riordan.
Dr Riordan, with other WHEM members, attended the 6th European Conference on Gender Equity in Higher Education that was held at Stockholm Univesity, Sweden from 5 to 8 August 2009.
On the final Saturday morning, discussion during the plenary sessions turned to “what next?” After listening to a number of contributions, Dr Riordan offered our South African experience of the Declaration made in 2008 after our HE Conference in Cape Town to HESA (Higher Education South Africa), the CHE (Council on Higher Education) and the Department of Education that called on these institutions to respond with an action plan (scroll down for further information on the HE Conference). Dr Riordan is pleased to report that a majority vote in the plenary session on Saturday morning moved to make a similar declaration to the European Commission. The South African text was used a as a basis document to draft the declaration that will be presented later in September 2009.
Click here for her Report.
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HERS-SA congratulates LIDIA BRITO, Mozambique's former Science Minister and a past presenter at the HERS-SA ACADEMY, on her appointment as Head of the Science Policy Division at UNESCO.
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HERS-SA congratulates DR CHERYL DE LA REY, a past presenter at the HERS-SA ACADEMY, on her appointment as the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Pretoria.
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HERS-SA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The HERS-SA Annual General Meeting took place on Monday 8 June 2009.
HERS-SA is a Voluntary Association and, according to its' Constitution, is required to have "Members", that is individuals who monitor that the Association is fulfilling its goals. In attendance were five of the five HERS-SA Management Board Members and five Members representing higher education institutions.
HERS-SA is very pleased to welcome new Management Board Members Nasima Badsha and Shahieda Hendricks. Ms Badsha is also the new Chair of the Management Board and is replaceing Dr Lesley Shackleton who has resigned as Chair and Management Board Member. Ms Hendricks will take up her position in July 2009. The other current Members fo the HERS-SA Management Board were re-elected.
Members whose term of office runs until the next HERS-SA AGM in June 2010 are as follows:
Fatima Darries
Karen Esler
Colette February
Loveness Kaunda
Charmaine Klein
Firoza Patel
Beatrice Thuynsma
Joanne Uphill
Antoinette van der Merwe
Nan Warner
Denise Zinn
Although in terms of South Africa Law HERS-SA only has a limited number of official Members, it is important to remember that it is the broader participation of all the HERS-SA women in its activities that is the strength of HERS-SA.
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HERS-SA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES in 2010
For further details please go to: the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT page
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LIBRARY OF THE AFRICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (ALA) PROJECT
Dr Louise van Rhyn, Principal of Symphonia, a socially relevant consulting organisation, recently contacted HERS-SA to invite all
members to contribute to the Library of The African Leadership Project. The African Leadership Academy is an organisation with a BIG dream - the transformation of a continent. They plan to do that through educating 6000 leaders over the next 50 years. The first group of 97 students joined the Academy in September 2008. This is a handpicked group, selected from 1700 applicants from +/- 40 countries in Africa. To read more about the African Leadership Academy click here
or telephone: +27 (0)11-794-1923.
Louise is calling on people who:
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Have written books and may be will to send some of their books to the ALA.
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Have books or other reference material that they are not using and want to make available to the future leaders of Africa (NB not just any material - they need books and reference material that the future leaders of Africa would find of value as they develop their plans to transform Africa)
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Know others who have books / can get hold of books and want to support the development of a cadre of African leaders who will lead the tranformation of a continent.
Please send your books / reference material to:
Library Project, African Leadership Academy,
P O Box 529, Hurlingham, 2070, South Africa
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US: GOLDMAN SACHS OFFERS TRAINING FOR 10,000 WOMEN
The Goldman Sachs business group is to plough US$100 million over a five year period to provide for 10,000 women, mainly in developing countries, with a business and management education via partnerships between universities in the United States and Europe and business schools in emerging and developing economies. Initial academic partners include the Columbia, Harvard and Standford business schools in the United States; the American Universities of Afghanistan and Cairo; the Indian School of Business, Hyderbad; the US International University, Kenya; the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For further details go to: http://www.10000women.org or email: info@10000women.org |
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NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE:
"INSTITUTIONAL CULTURES and HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP:
WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?"
Thursday 27 and Friday 28 March 2008
Middle Campus, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The conference was a joint initiative of HERS-SA, the Department of Education, The Council on Higher Education (CHE), and Higher Education South Africa (HESA)and attracted 120 delegates including Vice Chancellors and senior executives from across South Africa and other African countries. The Conference was convened to focus on the paucity of women at senior levels in higher education. It resulted in a DECLARATION calling for a significant improvement in the representation of women in senior academiC, administrative and executive leadership positions in all higher education institutions. The Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, received the Declaration on behalf of the Department of Education. The Declaration was also presented to HESA and CHE.
AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS:
Professor Lydia Brito, Assistant Professor, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique:
"A Southern African perspective on women leaders in higher education"
Professor Kathy Driver, Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa:
"Recruitment and retention of women staff - how attractive is the academic career path?"
Dr Theuns Eloff, Chair, Higher Education South Africa & Vice-Chancellor, North-West University, South Africa:
"The role of national and institutional policies and higher education organisations in bringing more women into higher education leadership positions"
Dorothy Garland, Deputy Secretary General (External), Association of Commonwealth Universities, United Kingdom:
"Highlighting an example of successful levers for change"
Prof Cheryl Potgieter, Professor of Psychology, University of Pretoria:
"The intersection of race and gender in the academic environment"
Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Executive Chair, Circle Capital Ventures, South Africa:
"Diversity in leadership in higher education South Africa"
Dr Lesley Shackleton, Chair, HERS-SA
"Panel discussion on best practice - examples of successful levers for change: HERS-SA"
Dr Mala Singh, Professor of International Higher Education Research & Information, Open University, United Kingdom:
"The Challenge to South African higher education - how do we facilitate the participation of more women in higher education leadership"
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CELEBRATING HERS-SA ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE OCTOBER 2002
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HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND was launched in 2006 through an initiative by Aderonke Akeredolu and Oludolape Amole from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria who were delegates at the HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006. In appreciation of the opportunity afforded to them by attending the ACADEMY, their aim was to provide funds for the ACADEMY fee for future delegates who did not have access to the necessary financial support.
Following the launch of the HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND, donations have been received from other HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006 and 2007 delegates and HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 presenters in their personal capacities.
We are delighted to report that there were sufficient funds to support one delegate’s fee at ACADEMY 2008.
HERS-SA would welcome contributions to the ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Please contact Penny Franz on email: penny@chec.ac.za
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CONGRATULATIONS!! HERS-SA ALUMS OR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
GEORGIA YUAN on her appointment from 1 January 2010 in President Obama's administration as Deputy General Counsel for Higher Education, United States Department of Education, Washington, USA.
CHARMAINE KLEIN on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Facilities Manager: Facilities Services Section at Stellenbosch University
PROFESSOR AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon.
PROFESSOR AMANDA LOURENS on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Vice-Rector Research and Planning at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University.
PROFESSOR KAREN ESLER who delivered her Inaugural Lecture "The Ecology of Academia" on 8 September 2009 at Stellenbosch University. In her address Professor Esler, from the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, tied together ecology, the study of interactions of living organisms with each other and their environment, with her vision of academia, the collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher research and education.
PROFESSOR DENISE ZINN (above) on her appointment as Dean of Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
PROFESSOR THOKO MAYEKISO on her appointment from 1 May 2009 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Technology & Planning, Nelson Mandela University of Technology, Port Elizabeth
PROFESSOR SIMI ODEYINKA on her promotion in March 2009 to full Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Igeria
PROFESSOR IRMA ELOFF on her appointment as Dean: Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria
TEMBEKA MPAKO-NTUSI on her appointment as Director: Research, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
DR JOYCE NDUNA on her appointment as Director: Community Engagement & Work Integrated Learning, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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