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Announcing the HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY 2012
Sunday 15 April – Wednesday 18 April 2012
Upper East Side Hotel, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
HERS-SA will be hosting its second mini-ACADEMY in Cape Town from Sunday 15 April to Wednesday 18 April 2012. The programme has been designed to provide a series of highly interactive workshops to build the critical skills of women working in higher education. Four workshops are offered to boost participants’ leadership and performance capacities and to support their career development aspirations as women working in the higher education context.
The three and half day mini-ACADEMY programme has been carefully crafted to develop the competency levels of delegates in four core areas:
- Mapping Leadership Development
- Engaging Individual & Institutional Diversity
- Understanding the Higher Education Environment
- Planning & Leading Change
The mini-ACADEMY will also provide invaluable networking opportunities with other women in higher education and as well as access to role models. Refer below for the Programme, more information on workshops being offered and bio-sketches on the facilitators.
Applications to attend this event are only open to HERS-SA alumnae who have previously attended the seven-day HERS-SA ACADEMY.
Registration for the HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY is only available to forty delegates and, as places are limited, early registration is strongly encouraged. The mini-ACADEMY fee is R6 000 + VAT R840 = R6 840.
The HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY will take place at the Upper East Side Hotel in Woodstock, Cape Town.
HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY 2012 Programme
HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY 2012 Workshop Information & Facilitators' Biosketches
HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY 2012 Application Process & Fees
HERS-SA mini-ACADEMY 2012 Application Form to be submitted by 15 February 2012
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HERS-SA ACADEMY 2011
took place from
Sunday
11 to Saturday 17 September 2011
The ninth HERS-SA ACADEMY took place from 11-17 September
at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Waterfront, Cape Town.
79 delegates from all over South Africa plus one each from Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana, Mauritius and Namibia attended the 2011 ACADEMY. A total of 38 speakers and facilitators generously shared their time and experience in a variety of forums thus providing not only information, but mentoring and exposure to role models which are critical elements of the ACADEMY experience.
HERS-SA ACADEMY 2011 REPORT
HERS-SA ACADEMY 2011 DELEGATES
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HERS-SA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The HERS-SA Annual General Meeting took place on Thursday 23 June 2011 in Cape Town.
HERS-SA is a Voluntary Association and, according to its' Constitution, is required to have "Members", that is individuals who monitor that the Association in fulfilling its goals. In attendance were three HERS-SA Management Board Members and seven Members representing higher education institutions including Fatima Darries of participated via teleconference from UNISA.
Nasima Badsha retired as Chair or the Management Board and Prof Karen Esler was unanimously elected as the new Chair. HERS-SA thanks Nasima for her invaluable contribution to HERS-SA over many years and we look forward to her ongoing involvement as a Member. We wish Karen every success in her new position. The other current Members of the HERS-SA Management Board were re-elected.
Members whose term of office runs until the next HERS-SA AGM in June 2012 are as follows
Fatima Darries
Colette February
Charmaine Klein
Cora Motale
Firoza Patel
Lynne Rippenaar
Beatrice Thuynsma
Lindi Tlou
Ingrid Tufvesson
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.
left to right: Dr Sabie Surtee, Director HERS-SA; Prof Karen Esler, Chair HERS-SA;
Nasima Badsha previous Chair HERS-SA
HERS-SA Annual General Meeting attendees
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HERS-SA NEWSLETTER May 2011 - click here
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HERS-SA congratulates Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Dean of Law, PROFESSOR VIVIENNE LAWACK-DAVIDS, a past presenter at the HERS-SA ACADEMY, on her appointment as the new President of the South African Law Deans Association for a two-year term.
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CELEBRATING HERS-SA ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE OCTOBER 2002
For DETAILS go to: ACHIEVEMENTS |
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HERS-SA is delighted to welcome Dr Sabie Surtee who has been appointed the Director of HERS-SA on a part-time basis from 1 April 2010
Dr Surtee completed her Bachelor of Arts, and Honours degrees in applied psychology and industrial sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. She received her Masters degree in Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She graduated with a doctorate in Sociology from Wits University in 1998 where she became the first Black student to be awarded a PhD degree in the sociology department at Witwatersrand University.
She has gained extensive knowledge on South African labour legislation and its implementation through her employment at the Department of Labour from 1999-2003. She worked in the Research, Policy and Planning Unit at the Department of Labour’s national office in Pretoria, and then went on to serve as the regional manager of the largest Labour centre in the Western Cape.
Dr Surtee was appointed as the Employment Equity (EE) Manager at the University of Cape Town(UCT) in 2003. In this position she was responsible for building the capacity of line managers and transformation committees in the implementation of employment equity initiatives. Her responsibilities also included formulating policy and providing the University’s management with information and change management processes to facilitate the effective implementation of employment equity at UCT. She was also assigned the role of project manager for all donor funded EE programmes at UCT which were to the value of over R23million.
Dr Surtee left UCT as a permanent member of staff in April 2009, to pursue her passion to conduct research and to offer coaching services and consultancy advice in the areas of employment equity and diversity in organisations. As the lead researcher of a team, during 2009 she conducted EE research in the Western Cape for Business Unity SA (BUSA), where the EE practices of 13 organisations based in the Western Cape were reviewed and evaluated to identify barriers to EE that are being encountered by these businesses. She also works as a consultant offering services in research, employment equity and transformation interventions, workshop design and facilitation, and coaching.
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RESEARCH NEWS
From 9-11 April 2010, Dr. Sarah Riordan attended a research meeting in Sweden as a result of her ongoing research association with WHEM (Women in Higher Education Management). This network of women from eight countries, led by Dr. Kate White of Australia, have been collaborating and communicating via email for the past four years whilst working on a multi-country study about gender equity in higher education. Their research has produced a book, entitled, Gender, Power and Management: a cross cultural analysis of Higher Education which will be released in 2011.
Each member of the team had produced at least one draft chapter of the book prior to the meeting. The purpose of the 3-day meeting which took place in the historic university town of Uppsala, was to sit together as a group and review each chapter of the book. “It was a wonderfully intense and productive opportunity to share insights and offer suggestions for improvement for each chapter from every country. An excellent example of women working collaboratively in a supportive environment” said Riordan. The trip was sponsored by the Swedish Research Council and facilitated by WHEM member Prof Anita Gorannson who are gratefully acknowledged.
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HERS-SA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES in 2011
For further details please go to: the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT page
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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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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 and 2010 presenters in their personal capacities. In lieu of a workshop facilitator honorarium, a contribution has also been received from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa (NSFAS).
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 ALUMNAE OR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
DR HEIDI PROZESKY (HERS-SA ACADEMY 2011 alum) on her election to Stellenbosch University Institutional Forum. She will be representing permanent, non-professorial academic staff on the Forum for the next three years. She tells us that she found the ACADEMY 2011 training highly relevant and inspiring - so much so that it motivated her to put herself up for nomination to the Forum.
FATIMA DARRIES on her appointment from 1 March 2011 as Deputy Director: Cataloguing, UNISA Library, University of South Africa
PROFESSOR LYNETTE LOUW on her appointment as 2011 Dean of Commerce at Rhodes University.
PROFESSOR ROSIE DORRINGTON remains Deputy Dean of Science for 2011 at Rhodes University
PROFESSOR DENISE ZINN (above), Dean of Education at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, on her appointment as a member of the Umalusi Council. Umalusi is the quality assurer in the general and further education and training bands of the national qualifications framework (NQF). The Council ensures that the providers of education and training have the capacity to deliver and assess qualifications and learning programmes and are doing so to expected standards of quality.
REENA BUDREE on her appointment from 1 February 2010 as Senior Director, Human Resources Division, University of the Witwatersrand
PROFESSOR AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO on her appointment in January 2010 as Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Prof Ampofo is also on the Exeuctive Committee at the university.
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 AMANDA LOURENS on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Vice-Rector Research and Planning at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University.
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