International UCT

International UCT

UCT is South Africa’s oldest university. Established in 1829, it has maintained a proud tradition of academic excellence, which today sees it ranked among the world’s leading teaching and research institutes. Renowned for its striking location at the foot of Table Mountain’s Devil’s Peak, UCT is a microcosm of the city in its title. It is home to a vibrant, cosmopolitan community of over 26 000 students and 5 000 staff members from over 100 countries in Africa and abroad. Mission Statement of the University of Cape Town 5 Message from the Vice-Chancellor 6 Introduction by the Deputy Vice- Chancellor 8 A watershed History of the University of Cape Town 10 in >Transformation 11 period >UCT today 11 internationalisation History of Internationalisation 12 in higher education INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE 14 >Welcome from the Director 14 globally >International Academic Programmes Office 15 >Vision Statement 15 >Mission Statement 16 IAPO’s Core Services and Functions 18 >Directorate 18 >African Partnerships and Study Programmes 18 >Confucius Institute 19 >Finance 20 >Mobility Partnerships and Programmes 20 CONTENTS >Systems, Communication and Information 21 >Short Term International Programmes (STIP) 22 >IAPO’s Core Services 22 Internationalisation Highlights 24 01 | Strategic Partnerships and >Visiting Scholars 67 Programmes 28 >Future Internationalisation Plans 67 >Africa Regional International Staff/Student >Internationalisation Highlights 67 Exchange programme 30 Health Sciences 68 >Universities Science, Humanities, Law and >Students 69 Engineering Partnerships in Africa 32 >Scholars 69 >Worldwide Universities Network 34 >Recent Internationalisation Highlights 69 >Scholars at Risk 36 >Teaching and Research Collaborations 70 >Organisation for Women in Science for the Science 72 >Developing World 37 >International Students and Post- >Trilateral agreement: A Leadership Doctoral Fellows 73 Development Partnership between UCT, the >UCT Students Sent on Exchange 73 University of Fort Hare and the University >International Staff 73 of Venda 38 >Staff Exchanges and Networking 73 >Australia-Africa Universities Network 39 >International Visits, Conferences and Colloquia 74 >University of Cologne Global Network >Visiting Scholars 74 Partnership 40 >Recent International Linkages 74 >The Southern African-Nordic Centre 41 >Future Internationalisation Plans 74 >Erasmus Mundus 42 >Internationalisation Highlights 74 >Barnard College Scholarships 43 commerce 76 >Yale/Fox International Fellowships 44 >Academic Staff Liaison 77 >Miller-Sidgwick International Exchange >Students 77 Scholarship: The University of Michigan and the >International Student Overview 77 University of Cape Town 45 >UCT Students Sent on Exchange 77 >MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program 46 >International Visits, Conferences >London School of Economics and Political and Colloquia 77 Science (LSE) / UCT July School 48 >International Linkages 77 >Pennsylvania State University Strategic >Visiting Scholars 78 Partnership 49 >Internationalisation Highlights 78 >Confucius Institute 50 Graduate School of Business (GSB) 79 > Strategic initiatives of the Research Office 51 02 | International Mobility 54 >Semester Study Abroad 56 >UCT Students on International Exchange 58 >Staff Mobility administered by IAPO 60 03 | Faculties 62 HUMANITIES 64 >International Students and Post- Doctoral Fellows 65 >Staff Exchanges and Networking 65 >Institutions Visited on Staff Exchanges 66 >Projects and networks 66 >International staff and appointments 66 >Recent International linkages 66 >International Accreditations 79 >International Academic Programmes Office 94 >International Faculty 79 >Faculty of Commerce 94 >International Partners 80 >Faculty of Engineering and the >Exchanges 80 Built Environment 94 >Internationalisation Highlights 80 >Faculty of Health Sciences 94 Faculty of Law 81 >Faculty of Humanities 94 >Staff Exchanges and Networking 82 >Faculty of Law 94 >International Visits, Conferences and Colloquia 82 >Faculty of Science 94 >Visiting Scholars 82 >Graduate School of Business (GSB) 94 >International Linkages 83 >Admissions Office 94 >Student Opportunities 83 >Research Office 95 >Student Exchange Highlights 84 International Academic Programmes >Faculty Highlights 84 office Staff Members 95 >Alumni Highlights 85 UCT INTERNATIONAL STUDENT STATISTICS Engineering and the Built (See inside back cover) environment 86 >Staff and Students 87 >Departmental Initiatives and Highlights 87 >School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics 87 >Department of Chemical Engineering 88 >Department of Civil Engineering 88 >Department of Construction Economics and Management 90 >Department of Electrical Engineering 90 >Department of Mechanical Engineering 90 Centre for Higher Education development (CHED) 91 Internationalisation and >Visitors 91 Afropolitanism share a common >International Linkages 92 Contacts 94 transformation vision as both have the potential to create greater diversity on campus.

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MISSION STATEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) ASPIRES TO BECOME A PREMIER ACADEMIC MEETING POINT BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA, THE REST OF AFRICA AND THE WORLD. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EXPANDING GLOBAL NETWORKS AND OUR DISTINCT VANTAGE POINT IN AFRICA, WE ARE COMMITTED, THROUGH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, TO GRAPPLING WITH THE KEY ISSUES OF OUR NATURAL AND SOCIAL WORLDS. WE AIM TO PRODUCE GRADUATES WHOSE QUALIFICATIONS ARE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND LOCALLY APPLICABLE, UNDERPINNED BY VALUES OF ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. UCT WILL PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND TRANSFORMATION WITHIN OUR INSTITUTION AND BEYOND, INCLUDING GROWING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMICS.

uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT 5 MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR

An 18th anniversary may seem like an odd year to commemorate, and it probably is. But for internationalisation at UCT – formalised with the founding of the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) in 1996 – the year 2014 was worth marking. But it was a bittersweet commemoration.

UCT, seen by many universities around the world as the gateway to the rest of Africa, has become a major attraction for international scholars, students and institutions. Yes, our academics had forged research relationships with overseas universities even during the years of political isolation, and students and scholars had visited our shores often over that period. But many of those engagements were, of necessity, of the informal kind.

Since the advent of democracy in our country, the university’s more formal collaborations, exchanges and partnerships have proliferated. And as international ranking after international ranking has illustrated, UCT has become arguably the foremost university on the continent.

It’s that growing status that we wanted to tap into when, some six years ago, shortly after I joined the university, we intensified our internationalisation strategy. Today it’s known around campus as Internationalisation with an Afropolitan Niche. That strategy and vision was designed to build on our increasing relationships with colleagues on the continent following South Africa’s return into the global fold.

Through formal policies, funding incentives and word of mouth, that strategy – and Afropolitanism as a concept and vision – has seeped into every corner of the university’s activities, be it research, teaching or even the services delivered by our support

6 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT departments. Testimony to that can be found within But Professor Nhlapo would also be the first to the pages of this document. admit that internationalisation and Afropolitanism continues without him. Because the true drivers of Much of the credit should go to Deputy Vice- internationalisation are our scholars, who day after Chancellor Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo. With day build networks and contacts throughout the charm, humour, logic and sheer tenacity, he willed world, often without fanfare. It is also our students, Afropolitanism into a buzzword around campus. who crave international exposure and embrace More than just a buzzword, in fact. He has helped wholeheartedly the opportunities now offered to make Afropolitanism reality, patiently arguing for its them. It is also the handiwork of many of our support value and place at the institution. departments – not least IAPO and the Research Office – who work tirelessly to support the UCT mission. Professor Nhlapo retired from the university at the end of July 2014 and left a solid legacy. Hence the bitter to This document is by no means a comprehensive the sweet of UCT’s growing international profile, and chronicle of internationalisation at the university, the unconventional timing of this publication. but by offering this glimpse, we hope to capture the spirit and essence of just how and why the Professor Nhlapo will be sorely missed, and the university’s global footprint is growing. university owes him a great debt. DR MAX PRICE VICE-CHANCELLOR

Message from the vice-chancellor 7 INTRODUCTION BY THE DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR

It gives me great pleasure to introduce International UCT, a project by the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) to record for posterity the progress and current state of internationalisation at the University of Cape Town. There are many reasons why this is an opportune moment to present this snapshot. In the first place, this is in many senses a watershed period in internationalisation in higher education globally, and especially on the African continent. Secondly, and linked to the first observation, UCT embarked on a project to seize the opportunity presented by global developments to sharpen its thinking and its policy underpinnings to take full account of new realities. Thirdly, and finally, this presentation coincides quite snugly with the end of my own ten-year tenure in the international portfolio, give or take a few months.

To say that this is a watershed period in internationalisation globally is to say a lot of other things besides. When IAPO was established in 1996 with a staff of three under the leadership of Dr Lesley Shackleton, internationalisation in universities was seen largely as having to do with student exchanges. At UCT the project had an important history and context, following the country’s first tentative steps into the democratic fold in the early years of the decade. It is a history that saw Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Martin West, with the full backing of Dr Stuart Saunders, the Vice-Chancellor at the time, attending the meeting of the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Accra, Ghana, in 1993 to state the case for the re-integration of South African Universities into the continental academic family. With the visionary support of friends such as Professor Tom Tlou, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Botswana, the mission was a success and Martin West went on to negotiate UCT’s first

8 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT African consortium of note, the Universities Science, All of these responses require friends abroad, Humanities, Law and Engineering Partnerships in and UCT continues to be a sought-after partner Africa (USHEPiA) which has endured for many years globally. And this is where the Afropolitan mission as UCT’s flagship partnership on the continent. of the university is paying dividends. As a leading institution on the continent, it makes sense for UCT At the time, USHEPiA consisted of the Universities to enter into relationships with partners in the global of Botswana, Dar es Salaam, Makerere, Nairobi, north as it is already positioned as a gateway to Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Jomo Kenyatta University fruitful south-south collaborations that create value of Agriculture and Technology, and UCT. IAPO for all parties concerned. A succession of funders are had three staff members and the number of finding these kinds of configurations attractive: one international students was unknown. By the next simply has to consider the competitive projects that year, in 1997, the staff had increased to five and UCT and other South African universities have won the international student component was officially from the European Union, for instance. recorded as 1630. 1998 saw the launch of the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programme with 152 As for my own participation in these developments, students, mostly from North America. In the next it has been a singular honour to have had the years the operation grew by leaps and bounds, with opportunity to consolidate the position and profile international full-degree and semester students of this great institution, continentally and globally. averaging a steady 20% of the total student With the support of the Vice-Chancellor and population, so that at the 10th anniversary of IAPO the steadfast loyalty of IAPO, we have seen our in 2006 this number was 4 374 from over 100 university’s stature as a highly desirable international countries. IAPO had 22 staff. friend growing steadily, not only externally but also internally where appreciation for our role as a good And now, 18 years later, internationalisation is a continental citizen is now embedded in UCT culture global phenomenon which goes vastly beyond the in the form of Africa Month. Throughout all this, the constrained boundaries of student exchange to fortunes of USHEPiA have more or less mirrored encompass staff mobility, research collaboration, the growth and development of IAPO. Started as curriculum development, external examinership, co- an office to service this fledging partnership, IAPO badged qualifications and joint degrees. And not has grown into an adaptable instrument that has only that: internationalisation today acknowledges managed to keep USHEPiA alive through many the influence of drivers which were simply not on financial challenges and changes of membership. the horizon a little over a decade ago, including The most recent cohort of the “new” USHEPiA is the emergence of China as an ambitious player in made up of graduate students from Dar es Salaam, higher education (as both an exporter of students Ghana, Makerere, Nairobi and Zambia. As we hungry for a western education and an aggressive look forward to new challenges and new roles in importer of expertise), and thoroughgoing the current internationalisation landscape, I would reviews of funding models for higher education remind us all of the vision of the person who started in Europe and in the United Kingdom which in it all, Martin West. USHEPiA’s resilience is as much many cases involved drastic reductions in state a tribute to his vision as to anything I have been funding and the consequent hiking of tuition fees. honoured to add in the interim. UCT now enters Responses to these stimuli have been creative an era where internationalisation and research will and varied, ranging from the establishment of be in closer alignment and the respective roles of foreign campuses by some of the world’s leading the two enterprises more clearly defined. It is an universities to the proliferation of online courses exhilarating prospect, with UCT well-positioned by for free or for sale. Consolidation of brands in the its historical experiences to make a success of this form of mergers and consortia offering a co-taught new adventure. curriculum and the award of joint degrees have been popular options, as has the scramble for PhD PROFESSOR THANDABANTU NHLAPO recruits and post-doctoral appointments. DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR

INTRODUCTION BY the deputy vice-chancellor 9 history of the university of cape town

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa’s oldest university, and is one of Africa’s leading teaching and research institutions. The university was founded in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for boys. The college had a small tertiary-education facility that grew substantially after 1880, and developed into a fully-fledged university from 1880 to 1900, due to increased funding from private sources and the government.

Over this period, the South African College built its first dedicated science laboratories, and started the departments of mineralogy and geology. After the trial admission of four women in 1886, the College also began to admit women students permanently in 1887, in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The years 1902 to 1918 saw the establishment of a medical school, and the introduction of engineering courses and a department of education.

Finally, in 1918, UCT was formally established as a university, courtesy of a bequest by gold and diamond magnate Alfred Beit and substantial gifts By 2004, nearly from fellow mining moguls Julius Wernher and Otto half of UCT’s Beit. The new university also attracted generous support from well-wishers in the Cape Town area and, for the first time, a significant state grant. Ten years later, in 1928, the university was able to move 20,000 most of its facilities to its new Groote Schuur campus students were on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, land bequeathed to black and just under the country by Cecil John Rhodes as the site for a half of the student national university. body was female. UCT would, over the following decades, establish itself as a leading research and teaching university. During this time Stellenbosch University, Wits University, and the University of

10 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT Pretoria also received university status, in 1918, 1922 and 1930, respectively. The university views transformation as a multifaceted From the 1960s to 1990s, UCT was nicknamed and integrated process by which it continuously ‘Moscow on the Hill’, in reference to its sustained renews itself in an ongoing effort to represent in all opposition to apartheid, particularly apartheid aspects of its life and functions the vision and ideals in higher education. The university admitted its of its mission and values. first small group of black students in the 1920s, although the number of black students remained UCT today relatively low until the 1980s and 1990s. It was in the 1990s that the institution, embracing the The university has six faculties: Commerce, forthcoming change in the country, committed itself Engineering and the Built Environment, Law, Health to a deliberate and planned process of internal Sciences, Humanities and Science. These faculties transformation. Over this period, the number of are supported by the Centre for Higher Education black students admitted to the university rose by Development, which addresses students’ teaching 35 per cent. By 2004, nearly half of UCT’s 20,000 and learning needs. students were black and just under half of the student body was female. Today UCT has one of UCT also has more than 60 specialist research units the most diverse campuses in South Africa. that provide supervision for postgraduate work. It is home to more than a quarter of South Africa’s Transformation A-rated researchers – academics who are considered world leaders in their fields. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing and diversifying democratic society, UCT is implementing Among its more than 100,000 alumni are the late an action guide on transformation, looking at issues Professor Christiaan Barnard, the world-renowned such as staff diversity, student equity and access, heart surgeon, and three Nobel laureates, Sir Aaron the curriculum, leadership and governance, and Klug, the late Professor Alan MacLeod Cormack, and attitudes and behaviour. JM Coetzee.

history of the university of cape town 11 history OF INTERNATIONALISATION

Since the founding of the University of Cape Town (UCT), international students and collaborations have been a fundamental part of the UCT experience. Apartheid was instrumental in isolating UCT from the international community but, even during this period, UCT endeavoured to encourage international collaborations. In the early 1990s, as the journey towards democracy in South Africa began, UCT made a concerted effort to engage with potential partners on the African continent. South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, and its subsequent emergence from sanction-based isolation, heralded new opportunities for UCT. There was a marked increase in international interest in visiting UCT and forming linkages and exchanges.

During 1994 and 1995 Dr Lesley Shackleton, who (SSA) programme with 152 students, many from the was to become the first director of the International United States of America (USA) and Europe. Formal Academic Programmes Office (IAPO), was welcoming and pre-registration processes were put contracted to assist with the development of the in place for all international students. University Science, Humanities and Engineering The number of international students continued to Partnerships in Africa (USHEPiA) programme – an grow year by year – as did the size of IAPO, to keep agreement with institutions in East and Southern up with the growing workload. The initial 1 630 Africa to develop the next generation of scholars on students of 1997 quickly increased to over 2 000 the continent. The university officially established in 1999, and by 2003 had reached the 3 000 mark, IAPO in 1996, which was the same year in which with students representing 92 countries. In addition, the USHEPiA programme was officially launched. over 500 SSA students attended UCT. It became USHEPiA would, for many years, remain the clear that, in line with changing national policy, UCT university’s flagship international partnership, not just would have to define its internationalisation position. in Africa, but globally. IAPO’s staff grew by two that year, the second cohort of USHEPiA fellows were Ten years after the establishment of IAPO, and welcomed, IAPO published its first international two years after Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo student booklet, and the Council for International was appointed as the university’s first Deputy Vice- Educational Exchange (CIEE) signed an agreement Chancellor (DVC) for International Relations, UCT with IAPO to host a study centre for study-abroad launched its internationalisation policy in 2006. students at UCT. IAPO staff were welcomed to In this policy, UCT embraced internationalisation international conferences on internationalisation, as a process that touches on teaching, research and began to join strategic global organisations. In and service functions. The policy stated that 1998, IAPO launched its Semester Study Abroad ‘internationalisation affects curricula, teaching,

12 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT research, administration, selection and promotion of staff, student recruitment, marketing, experiential learning through student and staff mobility, quality review, social responsiveness, and communication’. UCT adopted six key principles of internationalisation: excellence and mutual benefit; equity and institutional culture; a focus on UCT’s position in Africa particularly in respect of links and networks in the Southern African Development Community (SADC); research and academic autonomy; a curriculum benchmarked against international standards; and a set number of international students that would be accepted each year.

Afropolitanism have raised the university’s international profile and, when forged in the Global South, they have UCT became a sought-after destination for students consolidated UCT’s position in the group of nations from North America and Europe after the end of facing similar challenges, such as India, Brazil, apartheid. This resulted in research networks and China and Mexico, as well as other countries on collaborations with countries in the Global North. the African continent. As global trends in donor As South Africa’s democracy became entrenched, funding change, UCT’s position as a gateway the university’s focus shifted towards the African between the Global North and the Global South continent and South Africa’s immediate neighbours has attracted funding for research, student and staff in the SADC region. The number of students at UCT exchanges, and regional and continental capacity- who are from Africa and especially the SADC region building initiatives. has exceeded 2,000 every year since 2003. In 2005, IAPO hosted the university’s inaugural Afropolitanism allows UCT to build on existing Africa Day celebrations and, in 2006, the first African relationships around the continent. These already student leadership exchange programme between include several hundred research collaborations, UCT and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania countless capacity-building initiatives, informal was launched. By 2008, UCT’s new Vice-Chancellor, research partnerships and structured partnerships. Dr Max Price, had put a name to that vision – Many of these relationships are conducted Afropolitanism. UCT readily adopted Afropolitanism in high-profile UCT units and institutes, while as a strategic initiative, with DVC Nhlapo defining others are quietly continuing at departmental or it as the university’s aspiration to embrace more individual level. Among these are joint research meaningfully and more visibly its African identity and and publications, external examinerships, student to play a significant continental role as one of Africa’s exchanges and capacity-building programmes in leading institutions. curriculum design.

Internationalisation and Afropolitanism share a UCT has also been investing financially in its common transformation vision as both have the Afropolitan vision – about 50 per cent of the first potential to create greater diversity on campus round of awards made from the Vice-Chancellor’s and encourage curriculum development while Strategic Fund, allocated in 2009/2010, was impacting on the institutional climate at UCT. awarded to projects related to Afropolitanism. There Additionally, Afropolitanism offers opportunities for are further initiatives that UCT plans to launch. redress by making it possible for UCT academics These include offering special study modules and to travel throughout Africa on scholarly business. full degrees tailored to the needs of international As with internationalisation, Afropolitanism aims students, developing course offerings in languages to enrich UCT’s networks outside South Africa’s spoken on the continent, and creating virtual global borders. These strategic alliances and partnerships classrooms for postgraduate seminars.

history of INTERNATIONALISATION 13 WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)

It is my pleasure to invite you to enjoy International UCT, a publication that gives glimpses into the highlights of internationalisation at UCT.

I view my work and that of IAPO as a continuation of what has worked well over the past years. More specifically, our task is to align IAPO’s work with UCT’s Afropolitan vision. To achieve this we need to strengthen and extend our ties with the rest of the African continent, whilst maintaining our global position as Africa’s leading university.

The common vision that I as director share with my colleagues, is not only to uphold IAPO’s role for driving internationalisation at UCT, but also to renew and embed it into the academic enterprise of the university. Together, we shall strive to maintain UCT as a university that is used globally as a benchmark for internationalisation. This will take hard work and dedication, because internationalisation is an ever In 2006, IAPO marked the department’s 10th moving target. anniversary with a publication where we focused specifically on the work done by IAPO. In this report This report is, as I have noted, a snapshot in we have instead adopted a broader approach and time. During the past few months alone, new have thus included a section on strategic partnerships collaborations were formed, thousands of and programmes, many of which are collaboratively international students were welcomed, major managed by iapo and the research office. You will also bids were won, and new agreements and funding see reports from the faculties, which explore how the opportunities were negotiated. faculties engage with internationalisation. International UCT is intended to be a celebration As the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, notes in his of internationalisation at UCT. We hope you enjoy foreword, this publication also marks the departure reading it as much as we enjoyed compiling it. of Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo, who has since 2004 been responsible for internationalisation at the PROFESSOR EVANCE KALULA university. I would like to take this opportunity to thank DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC and commend Professor Nhlapo for his contribution to PROGRAMMES OFFICE AND internationalisation at UCT during his tenure. CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

14 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFICE (IAPO)

The International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) sees itself as empowering internationalisation at UCT through the provision of thought-leadership on relevant dimensions of and developments within internationalisation as well as leading the establishment of effective tools and specialised support to service the needs of internationalisation at home and in communities visiting the university. IAPO will undertake this work with an emphasis on an Afropolitan agenda that informs and is informed by the needs of transformation in South Africa.

Vision Statement

The IAPO vision of Empowering Internationalisation at UCT is built on an understanding of the two Vision Statement: pillars of IAPO’s contribution to internationalisation at UCT. The first, thought-leadership to develop policy, strategies and advice on key trends in internationalisation in order to enable IAPO and Empowering other units of the university to make appropriate, innovative and strategic decisions around internationalisation internationalisation.

The second, the development and provision at UCT of effective tools for support and services to faculty, students, staff, visitors and the executive at UCT in order to maximise the extent to which internationalisation is an opportunity available to all at UCT and ensure that the university consistently produces graduates and staff equipped to be global citizens. The idea of empowerment implies the provision of information, support and advice that builds the capacity of others to maximise the opportunities they make available and the opportunities that are made available to them.

international academic programmes office 15 Mission Statement: In the service of UCT’s strategic goals IAPO aims to be the thought-leader, partner and first port of call on all matters pertaining to internationalisation for the global higher education community participating at UCT.

Mission Statement The work of IAPO is targeted at the global higher education community participating at UCT The work of IAPO is elaborated across three including professors, students (full degree and fields – thinking (thought leadership), action visiting), researchers, visitors and, professional (partnership models for implementation and and support staff. These beneficiaries are at service provision) and a channel (providing a times stakeholders and partners in the process of central space for both internal and external internationalisation but the identification of the full engagement with internationalisation at an range of ‘clients’ will ensure that work streams and institutional level). prioritisation takes place across this spectrum.

16 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT IAPO Internationalisation hub

Thought Developing Effective Sustainable Leadership Best Practice Internationalisation Tools Promulgating Policy Generating Networked Knowledge Specialised Support Advocacy for Excellence for Innovation Innovative Service Provision

Teaching Learning Research Advocacy

Foundational Ethos: Transformation through Afropolitan Agenda

The mission also talks to the benefit of IAPO’s work that the externalisation of internationalisation is built within the framework of its role in servicing the goals on and supported by internationalisation at home. of the university as a whole. As the institutional The exchange of ideas and insights works from home of internationalisation at UCT, IAPO will ensure Africa out and from without into Africa through UCT.

international academic programmes office 17 iapo’s core services and functions directorate

The director leads IAPO in empowering internationalisation at UCT by allowing IAPO to broaden its focus on internationalisation across the full range of UCT’s higher education endeavours – teaching, learning, research and advocacy. The director works with the IAPO Management Team and the IAPO EXCO to align IAPO’s activities to the goals of UCT, especially Internationalisation via an Afropolitan Niche. The Special Projects Advisor forms part of the directorate and provides executive-level assistance to the Director for ad hoc, special projects with internal or external stakeholders. The Personal Assistant (PA) provides administrative and personal assistant services to the Director and is also responsible for coordinating the IAPO Island Programmes.

The directorate comprises the following positions:

> Director: Internationalisation and UCT Confucius The international Institute student body comprises > PA to the director and Island Programmes Administrator approximately > Advisor: Special Projects > African Partnerships and Study Programmes

AFRICAN PARTNERSHIPS AND STUDY 4 000 PROGRAMME full degree students The African Partnerships and Study Programmes (APSP) section is responsible for developing and maintaining partnerships and programmes that strengthen UCT’s academic integration with other African universities with the aim to deepen UCT’s Afropolitan focus. In addition, APSP focuses on developing, implementing and

18 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT monitoring UCT’s internationalisation policy with respect to Africa. The aim of strengthening UCT’s academic integration with the rest of Africa is achieved by managing existing African academic partnership programmes as well as implementing strategic programmes. Moreover, APSP aims to maximise co-operation within the higher education sector in Africa by facilitating visits and building strategic links with African academics and students across the continent. APSP has collated a database of partnerships that will serve as a basis for UCT in making decisions on future African initiatives.

The section further provides a wide range of support and services to international full degree students and Post-Doctoral Research Fellows (PDRF). The international student body comprises of around 4 000 full degree students and PDRFs from approximately 110 countries and each year between 350 to 500 new full degree students and PDRFs enrol at UCT.

The staff complement in APSP comprises:

> Manager: African Partnerships and Study Programmes > International Student Co-ordinator In light of the ever-growing business and trade > International Student Advisor relations between China and South Africa, the > International Student Administrator demand for learning Chinese is greater. > Co-ordinator: African Partnerships and Programmes Cape Town, both as a beautiful scenic city and a > Programme Officer: African Partnerships and hub of business, will play more important roles in Programmes the ties between China and South Africa. Officially > Administrative Assistant: African Partnerships launched in January 2010, the establishment and Programmes of the CI at UCT is a big step forward in > Co-ordinator: MasterCard Foundation transformation at UCT in that it brings the Chinese Scholar Program language program to UCT and facilitates academic > Recruitment and Peer Mentor Officer: exchanges between students and faculty members MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at UCT with those at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), > Finance and Program Administrator: MasterCard Guangzhou, China. The year 2014 celebrated the Foundation Scholars Program 10th anniversary of the founding of the first CI in the world and also saw UCT’s CI enter its fifth year Confucius Institute in operation.

The Confucius Institute (CI) at the University of The staff complement in the CI comprises: Cape Town promotes the learning of Chinese language and culture, and a broader and more > Chinese Director informed understanding of China at UCT, in the > Administrator greater Cape Town area and across South Africa. > Four Volunteer Teachers

iapo’s core services and functions 19 Finance education to communities in need would not be possible without the generous contributions from The Finance Section has a dual responsibility: donors. Ensuring proper disclosure and utilisation of funds for what it was intended is a major > to Central Finance - adhering to a reporting responsibility of the IAPO Finance team. It further structure covering monthly, quarterly, enhances the reputation of our university, and midyear and annual results; and ensuring the creates opportunities for future endeavours. implementation of financial guidelines and The staff complement in the Finance section policies comprises of: > to IAPO – providing cross-sectional financial expertise and guidance in line with strategic > Manager: Finance objectives; and ensuring tight controls on actual > Assistant Finance Manager expenditure vs budget. > Four Finance Officers

The key financial responsibilities are divided into two Mobility Partnerships categories: and Programmes

1. Continuing Financial Operations: Managing an One of the largest contingents of exchange and ever-growing operational budget in access of semester abroad students received at UCT is R20m; and revenue generation in excess of R25m. received through the Semester Study Abroad The operational budget plays an integral role in (SSA) programme. The growth of the SSA achieving strategic success both internally and programme has resulted in UCT having the biggest externally. Driving internationalisation globally and study abroad programme in South Africa. Since on the African continent demands sound business the start of the SSA programme, when UCT hosted acumen and tight financial controls, which is not 152 students in 1998, SSA enrolment has increased possible without institutional financial support. to 972 students in 2014 from more than 65 partner IAPO flagship international programmes such as institutions around the world. Many students the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) programme, the come independently, too, as ‘free movers’. UCT is International Full Degree (IFD) programme and considered a prime destination for SSA students, the SADC student intake provides the foundation owing to its location in Africa and the academic for revenue generation. UCT’s intention to grow reputation of the university, as well as the reputation these programmes via robust recruitment drives of the SSA programme, and the fact that courses in order to complement the revenue stream from are taught in English. Mobility Partnerships and IAPO’s strategic partners will be a significant boost Programmes (MPP) welcomes the SSA and exchange to the university. students with a vibrant and intensive two-week orientation programme that initiates students 2. Non Continuing Financial Operations: IAPO into campus and city life. MPP also provides 24/7 Finance manages and prepares all financial emergency support and works with a wide range of related data and documentation for a multitude of partners in South Africa and abroad. donors. The financial checklist is quite exhaustive but not negotiable as IAPO Finance ensures MPP supports UCT student mobility to UCT’s that the esteemed reputation of the university partner institutions abroad and maintains remains intact. The funding UCT receives from reciprocal exchange linkages that facilitate these donors enables the university to deliver on key exchanges. Other services offered by MPP include: strategic goals and objectives, especially in the planning itineraries and facilitating meetings for development of research and postgraduate international visitors and delegations, establishing education. and maintaining partnerships with international universities; and signing and maintaining IAPO’s commitment to student mobility, exchange memoranda of understanding with partner programmes and providing opportunities for tertiary institutions.

20 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT From the date of joining the Worldwide University The MPP staff complement comprises: Network in 2009, until January 2015, the manager of MPP was UCT’s Worldwide Universities Network > Manager: Mobility Programmes and Partnerships (WUN) coordinator. MPP supported the WUN > Co-ordinator: Student Life and Exchanges steering group at UCT and arranged major WUN- > Exchanges Officer related events, such as the annual general meeting > Administrator: Partnerships and Visits of all 17 partner universities, which was held in Cape > Administrator: Housing Town in March 2014. > Coordinator: SSA Academic > Four Study Abroad Programme Officers MPP has administered a number of Erasmus Mundus Action 2 student and staff mobility programmes Systems, Communication and since 2009, including the EMA2SA, EU-SATURN, Information INSPIRE and EUSA-ID programmes. Staff in the section also prepare bids for funding for these and The Systems, Communication and Information similar programmes. (SCI) section of IAPO comprises of four main

iapo’s core services and fuNctions 21 areas namely: Front Office; Communications and > Pre-registration Marketing; International Visits; and Systems & > Office and resource administration Information. > Stakeholder communication

The Front Office welcomes local and international The SIC portfolios are: visitors and students to UCT. This includes responding to large numbers of e-mails, telephonic > Manager: Systems, Communication & queries and drop-in visitors. The Front Office is Information responsible for maintaining the upkeep of all office > Coordinator: Marketing and Communication equipment; transporting staff, students and visitors > International Visits Assistant to specific meetings and events; and liaising with > Two Front Office Liaisons stakeholders within and outside UCT to respond to > Front Office Assistant requests for information. Short Term International The Communications and Marketing area publicises Programmes (STIP) the work of IAPO and maintains strong internal and external stakeholder relationships. IAPO has IAPO hosts a range of Short Term International a vibrant social media presence on Facebook and Programmes (STIP), initially developed by CHED, Twitter. IAPO’s marketing strategy includes digitising but located within IAPO since January 2014.The all IAPO’s information booklets on branded USBs, primary objectives of STIP are to broaden the range distributing biannual and monthly e-newsletters, of short courses offered in collaboration with our creating and maintaining the new IAPO website, partners both in the global north and the rest of actively participating in UCT events and compiling Africa, and to create an operating surplus specifically IAPO publications and reports. IAPO strives to designated for providing financial support to maintain a bold and strategic presence at on- and outbound UCT students participating in international off campus events. Events include the Teaching and exchange programmes. These programmes are Learning Conference, Parent’s Orientation, UCT also undertaken in close cooperation with UCT Open Day and African Month events. academics and other units such as the Centre for Open Learning. These programmes are provided to The international visits area moved into the SCI higher education providers. STIP are customised for section in October 2014. The visits were previously each client institution, and cover a broad range of administrated by the APSP and MPP. The demand for client requirements. visits has rapidly increased by 53% in volume in 2014. The STIP portfolios are: The Systems and Information area strategically aligns in-house IAPO systems with institution-wide UCT > Manager: Short Term International Programmes systems and sources key information for the IAPO > Administrator Management Team. This area is also responsible > SCEZONS: partner provider for research and for the project management of the pre-registration programme support process at UCT. There are various internal UCT systems as well as external systems that SCI uses IAPO’s Core Services to automate processes or present information. One of these systems is the UCT Customer Relationship > Establishes and maintains partnerships with Management (CRM) system which IAPO is using to leading universities worldwide automating most of its processes. The new CRM > Promotes the Afropolitan vision by initiating assists with the following: agreements with African universities > Coordinates funded consortium mobility > Partnerships and Links - which includes the programmes with African and worldwide partners storage of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) > Welcomes nearly 5 000 international students to > International visits UCT every year

22 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT > Organises exchange and scholarship to go on a semester exchange to one of our programmes for students to study abroad partner universities in North America, Europe, > Runs orientation programmes for new the United Kingdom or Australia. international students > Erasmus Mundus: South Africans with a > Runs the pre-registration process for all Bachelor’s degree may apply for a semester international students exchange or to complete a full degree at > Assists students with finding short- and long-term a European university, participating in one accommodation of the following programmes: EMA2SA, > Assists students with study permit renewals EUSATURN, EUROSA+, EUSA_ID, AESOP, > Provides certain financial services and Intra-ACP. See www.uct.ac.za/about/ > Runs the Semester Study Abroad (SSA) iapo/erasmusmundus for further information. programme ` > Special Exchanges: First-year female students > Works closely with student leadership structures in the Humanities and Science faculties can and sponsors certain international student apply for a semester exchange at Barnard societies’ events College in New York. At the end of 2015, this > Promotes and facilitates exchange opportunities funding will come to an end after a successful for UCT students. These include: five-year partnership. Master’s and doctoral > IAPO General Exchanges: UCT students in students may apply for the Sidgwick-Miller their first year of undergraduate studies and or Fox scholarships for a year-long research those doing their Master’s or doctoral studies exchange at the University of Michigan and (minimum two-year programme) may apply Yale University.

iapo’s core services and fuNctions 23 Internationalisation Highlights

2014 2013 >> The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) annual general >> UCT was awarded funding by the MasterCard Foundation meeting was hosted in Cape Town by UCT from 31 March to provide undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship to 3 April. As part of the WUN annual general meeting, the opportunities to economically disadvantaged students from following workshops were facilitated: the African continent at UCT, under the theme ‘Developing >> The WUN Resilience in Young People/Adolescents Working First Generation African Professionals’. Group Workshop was held from 27 to 28 March. >> UCT awarded its first Africa Regional International Staff/ >> The WUN Global Challenges Conference: Public Health and Student Exchange (ARISE) scholarships to successful Climate Change was held from 28 to 30 March. applicants. The ARISE programme will facilitate staff and student mobility between ARISE partner universities. >> The third WUN In-FLAME Annual Workshop was held from 30 to 31 March. >> UCT became a member of the Postgraduate Academic Mobility for African Physician Scientists (PAMAPS) and >> The WUN Migration and Health working group meeting was Entrepreneurship, Resources, Management Innovation and held on 31 March. Technology (ERMIT) programmes, which are EU-funded >> The USHEPiA Programme Vice Chancellors attend the Intra-ACP programmes for student and staff mobility. Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) African presidents >> UCT joined the Erasmus Mundus funded mobility meeting in Cape Town during the WUN conference. programme EUSA_ID as a partner university, in >> The Confucius Institute moved from the Centre for Higher Target Group 1. Education Development (CHED) to the International >> The first London School of Economics / University of Cape Academic Programmes Office. The Chinese director is Town July School was held at UCT. Associate Professor Shengyong Qin and the South African director is Professor Evance Kalula. >> UCT sent 54 students on semester exchange to partner universities: 15 postgraduates and 39 undergraduates. >> IAPO’s Director, Professor Evance Kalula represents UCT at the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) >> The second Africa Month celebration was held at UCT in Livingstone, Zambia from 3-5 March. during May, with 38 events, including sports, seminars, master classes, debates, a food fair, presentations >> The ARISE Programmes’ first scholar enrols at the University and exhibitions. of Cape Town. >> IAPO participated in the following on-campus events: Open >> UCT signs a funding agreement with the MasterCard Day, Parents’ Orientation, the EMA2SA Upper Campus Foundation, assuring USD$23 million in scholarships for Roadshow, and the Africa Month exhibition. disadvantaged African students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, to be offered over the next 10 years. >> IAPO was re-branded with a new logo and marketing More than 300 students from across the continent will materials, and marketing and communication materials benefit from the MasterCard Scholars Program. were digitised. >> UCT holds its 3rd campus wide Africa Month celebration >> The World @ UCT newsletter was re-launched in during May, with over 40 events, including sports, seminars, html format. master classes, debates, a food fair, presentations >> IAPO supported executive delegations to Brazil, the USA and exhibitions. and Germany to foster relationships with university and >> The IAPO Mobility Centre was established as a hub for network partners. student and staff mobility. This centre is shared with study >> The manager of MPP was invited to speak at the abroad partners Arcadia, International Study Abroad (ISA), International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) and the Institute for the International Education of Students conference, to present a paper at the NAFSA conference Abroad (IES). on the topic of ‘International Network Partnerships’, and to >> UCT joined the Erasmus Mundus funded mobility display a poster at the Going Global conference. programme INSPIRE as a full member. >> The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system >> UCT enrolled 972 SSA students. was developed, enabling UCT to assist IAPO with the following processes: tracking international partnerships, >> UCT enrolled just under 5 000 international students links and visits; storing Memoranda of Understanding

24 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT 2013 2012 (MoU) and other documents electronically; expediting the >> Dr Loveness Kaunda retired after six years of service as pre-registration process; SSA administration; Front Office director of IAPO. administration; Invoicing; Off campus accommodation; and >> Professor Evance Kalula is appointed as the new the roll-out of “Partnerships and Links” module IAPO director. >> Online applications introduced for SSA students applying >> UCT hosted the 16th annual International Education for the first semester of 2014 Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference. The director >> IAPO’s annual social responsibility activities: launched a special interest group, ‘Internationalisation of >> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive the Curriculum’, at the conference. to donate gifts to children in need and the elderly >> UCT was selected to lead the African consortium in the for Christmas. ARISE bid. ARISE is an EU-funded intra-ACP programme, >> For the Mandela Day 67 Minutes initiative, IAPO was part of which offers a grant of €2 million, for staff and graduate a drive to make and deliver 461 lunch packs to children at student mobility in Africa. the Garden Village School. >> UCT was promoted to the position of South African coordinator for the EMA2SA consortium (www.ema2sa.eu) >> UCT enrolled 979 semester study abroad and exchange students. >> UCT joined the EU-SATURN consortium, for staff and graduate student mobility between South Africa and >> UCT enrolled 4 930 international students. Europe (www.eu-saturn.eu/). IAPO worked with the Centre for Open Learning to develop the cooperative 2013 July School with the London School of Economics. >> IAPO led its first highly successful Africa Month festival, which was upsized from the annual one-day Africa Month Day festivities. This month long extravaganza consisted of 24 events in the form of lectures, seminars, exhibitions and performances. A few key highlights include the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, the Law Faculty’s ‘Afropolitan Through Fabric’ fashion show, the Exuberance Project by the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts, the Plaza Event hosted by the Students Representative Council, the Africa collaborations exhibition in the Baxter Theatre and various other scholarly debates and seminars. >> The DVC led a delegation to East Africa and the Great Lakes in the 2nd year of the annual Afropolitan visits programme. >> IAPO participated in the following on-campus events: Open Day, Parents’ Orientation, the EMA2SA Upper Campus Roadshow, and the Africa Month exhibition. >> IAPO’s social responsibility activities: >> IAPO staff donated equipment to the Christine Revell Children’s Home in Athlone. >> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to children in need for Christmas. >> IAPO participated in the Mandela Day 67 Minutes initiative. >> UCT enrolled 954 semester study abroad and exchange students. >> UCT enrolled 4 892 international students.

iapo’s core services and functions 25 2011 2010 >> The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) internal >> The intake of Semester Study Abroad (SSA) students is the steering group was established at UCT. largest, at 1 026, since the programme began in 1999, with >> UCT joined the EMA2SA Erasmus consortium, for staff fewer than 150 SSA students. and graduate student mobility between South Africa and >> IAPO received an IEASA Golden Key award for best Europe (www.ema2sa.eu). collaborative initiative between the international office and >> IAPO hosted the WUN Understanding Cultures meeting, international students. together with HUMA, at UCT. >> IAPO published an independent review on the strategic >> IAPO hosted the WUN Global Health conference in Chronic impact and value of the SSA programme (http://www.uct. Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), together with the ac.za/usr/iapo/news/IAPO%20SSA%20Final%20Report%20 Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (16April10).pdf) (IIDMM), at UCT. >> IAPO’s social responsibility activities: >> An internationalisation video was launched, >> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to showcasing UCT as an international university (http://youtu. donate gifts to orphaned children for Christmas. be/1455pk_Tr94). >> UCT enrolled 1 026 semester study abroad and >> IAPO published an independent review of the international exchange students. full degree student experience at UCT, entitled ‘Evaluating >> UCT enrolled 4 611 international students. the Impact and Value of the International Full Degree Students at the University of Cape Town’ (http://www.uct. ac.za/usr/iapo/apply/RevisedFinalIFDReport(vFINAL2_SJ- JT_21Feb11).pdf) >> IAPO facilitated more than 100 visits to UCT from around the world. 2009 >> The IAPO offices relocated to Level three of the Masingene >> IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Building on UCT Middle Campus. Excellence in Internationalisation in the category >> IAPO hosted its first spring braai event. This is an annual ‘International Students as a Percentage of Total Student event that provides international students with the Registrations’. opportunity to socialise outside the classroom environment. >> The USHEPiA planning group visited all partner universities >> IAPO successfully lobbied the Department of Home as part of its review. Affairs to allow international students with pending visa >> UCT joined the Worldwide Universities Network, a global applications to register. network of 17 of the world’s leading research universities. >> Two IAPO staff members are elected to IEASA’s >> UCT enrolled 874 semester study abroad and Management Council and Directors’ Forum. exchange students. >> IAPO’s social responsibility activities: >> UCT enrolled 4,307 international students. >> IAPO participated in the Operation Shoebox drive to donate gifts to children in need for Christmas. >> UCT enrolled 844 semester study abroad and exchange students. >> UCT enrolled 4 593 international students. 2008 >> IAPO launched its newsletter, World @ UCT. >> IAPO and the Department of Student Affairs established the SRC International Students’ Forum. >> The Rockefeller Foundation funded the strategic review for the future of USHEPiA.

26 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT 2008 2005 >> Six USHEPiA fellows graduated with PhDs, and one fellow >> IAPO co-ordinated its first ‘Africa Day’ celebrations. The aim received a Master’s degree. of this event was to enhance the institutional culture of UCT, >> UCT enrolled 908 semester study abroad and exchange by using human, intellectual and material resources to give students. expression to the university’s Afropolitan vision. >> UCT enrolled 5,259 international students. >> IAPO processed fees for more than 1 000 full degree international students, of non-SADC origin. >> IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Excellence in Internationalisation in the category ‘Quality Information for International Students’. >> IAPO co-ordinated its first Refugee Students’ Summit, 2007 attended by refugee students from institutions in the >> UCT, together with the Department of Home Affairs, hosted Western Cape. an immigration legislation awareness seminar at UCT for >> The USHEPiA programme had awarded 21 PhDs and 6 Western Cape institutions. Master’s degrees since its inception. >> The Eric Abrahams Academic Visitorships programme was >> UCT registered 4,374 international students from 96 launched for scholars at risk. countries. Full degree students numbered 3 219, and there >> UCT enrolled 699 semester study abroad and are 709 SSA students. exchange students. >> UCT enrolled 5,171 international students. 2004 >> Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo was appointed Deputy 2006 Vice-Chancellor with portfolio responsibility for International Relations, at UCT. >> Dr Loveness Kaunda started her first year of tenure as director of IAPO. >> IAPO hosted the eighth IEASA conference at UCT. >> IAPO established the International Management Advisory >> IAPO was awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Group (IMAG) to advise, and to be a policy reference group Excellence in Internationalisation in the category for, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor on Internationalisation ‘International Student Exchange Programme’. at UCT. >> IAPO co-ordinated more than 30 inter-institutional >> IAPO celebrated its 10th anniversary. See http://www.uct. memoranda of understanding and helped to facilitate a ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/iapo/10years_internat pdf. further 42 UCT departmental and faculty agreements. >> UCT’s Internationalisation Policy was launched. >> IAPO welcomed 579 semester study abroad and exchange students. >> The first Semester Study Abroad in Africa programme between UCT and the University of Dar es Salaam was >> The total number of international students was 3 908. launched, called the UCT/UDSM African Leadership Exchange Programme. >> IAPO welcomed 418 SSA students in the first semester, which was the highest number of SSA students registered in one semester, with a total of 673 SSA students for the year. >> UCT enrolled 5 437 international students.

iapo’s core services and fuNctions 27 STRATEGIC01 PARTNERSHIPS and Programmes

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28 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT strategic partnerships and programmes 29 africa regional international staff/ student exchange programme

A major Afropolitan initiative for the University of Cape Town (UCT) is its current membership of the Africa Regional International Staff/Student Exchange (ARISE) programme. UCT is one of the programme’s partner institutions and the co-ordinating institution for ARISE.

The programme is the result of the ambitious Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, which aims to promote co-operation between higher education institutions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP regions) and support mobility in these regions. More specifically, the scheme aims to increase access to quality education, thus enabling ACP students to undertake postgraduate studies, and to promote student retention in the region along with mobility of staff (academic and administrative), while increasing the competitiveness and attractiveness of the institutions themselves.

The primary funder of the scheme is the European Development Fund, which provided €40 million for the initiative. A further €5 million was provided by the South African government through the African Union’s Mwalimu Nyerere programme for Africa, a flagship project of the AU.

In 2012, UCT received funding from the Intra-ACP Mobility Scheme to partner with other institutions on the continent to start the ARISE programme. The ARISE partner institutions are the University of Cape Town (South Africa, co-ordinating institution), Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Nairobi (Kenya), the National University of Rwanda (Rwanda) and the University of Ghana, Legon

30 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT (Ghana). ARISE’s technical partner is the University was selected as a theme in response to the pressing of Leuven (Belgium) and the International Education Millennium Development Goals. The focus areas for Association of South Africa (IEASA) serves as an the programme are agriculture, energy, engineering associate partner. and the medical sciences.

The aim of ARISE is to support sustainable ARISE will offer 100 mobility opportunities. Awards development and poverty alleviation by increasing take the form of full-degree scholarships for Master’s the availability of trained and qualified high-level and doctoral students, short-term exchanges and professional personnel in African countries. It does opportunities for academic and administrative staff so by funding postgraduate studies, as well as mobility. The first 41 scholarships were awarded in opportunities for student and staff exchanges, within 2013. and between partner countries and institutions. ‘Food Security and Sustainable Human Wellbeing’ www.intra-acp-arise.org

strategic partnerships and programmes 31 UNIVERSITIES SCIENCE, humanities, law and engineering partnerships in africa

The Universities Science, Humanities, Law and Engineering Partnerships in Africa (USHEPA) programme has been UCT’s flagship collaboration initiative in Africa since the eve of democracy in South Africa.

USHEPiA’s origins can be traced back to 1992, when the Association of African Universities (AAU) first began to recognise South African universities, once the international isolation South Africa had experienced during apartheid had ended. At this time UCT started talks with universities in southern and east Africa in an attempt to build new partnerships, and arranged a meeting that brought together 21 Vice-Chancellors and Deans for discussions. These talks resulted in a 1994 memorandum of understanding (MoU) between eight African universities, namely, the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa; the University of Botswana (UB); the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania; the University of Nairobi (UON), Kenya; the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya; Makerere University (MU), Uganda; the University of Zambia (UNZA); and the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The aim of the MOU was to investigate the possibility of a capacity development programme for African academia, as many African institutions were suffering the ongoing brain drain of young academics, lured to institutions elsewhere in the world.

32 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT The USHEPiA programme was officially launched By the end of 2013 – with seven fellows on board in 1996, with funding from the Rockefeller – USHEPiA had capped two Master’s and 53 Foundation, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and doctoral graduates in the 17 years of its existence. the Carnegie Corporation. The aim was to offer To mark the closing of the donor-funded model, postgraduate fellowships to staff members from all the programme will hosted an alumni celebration eight universities interested in pursuing Master’s in 2014. This event aimed, in part, to follow up and doctoral studies in the sciences, engineering, with alumni and gauge how USHEPiA has shaped humanities and social sciences. The programme took the careers of these African scholars following their on a split-site structure, incorporating both home participation in the programme. and away supervisors for each student. This ensured that the topic of research would be of benefit to the So influential and path-breaking has USHEPiA been home country and not only the host institution. that today it serves as the blueprint for other similar initiatives at UCT. Key to its success have been close At the end of the 2009 financial year, the funding consultations between members, agreement on the was not renewed, as the donors were shifting their programme’s objectives, high-level co-operative focus to the sponsorship of contemporary academic management with strong local management and initiatives. At an USHEPiA Vice-Chancellors’ board support, and a flexible fellowship model that tailors meeting, the members decided that the USHEPiA the fellowship to the needs of the students and model was too valuable to abandon and opted to supervisors. Another critical factor has been the self-fund the programme. The current partners are programme’s ‘enthusiasm principle’ – energetic UDSM, UCT, the University of Ghana, MU, UON support from institutions and administrators. and UNZA. www.ushepia.uct.ac.za

strategic partnerships and programmes 33 worldwide universities network

The University of Cape Town (UCT) joined the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) in October 2009, in line with the university’s internationalisation strategy. In being accepted as a member of WUN – a collection of 17 research- intensive universities – UCT became the first African partner in the global consortium, joining institutions in Australasia, Europe, North America and South-East Asia.

Founded in 2000, WUN sought to create a global of Global Challenges, looking at four thematic research community that responds to global needs challenges – climate change, understanding cultures, and challenges. To address these ‘issues of global global higher education and research, and public significance’, the network runs a programme health and non-communicable diseases.

34 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT WUN’s projects comprise more than 90 active up to the meeting, UCT staged several WUN-related initiatives in the arts, the humanities, social sciences, events, including a joint conference on public health engineering, science, health and medicine. and climate change and a workshop on inflammatory International research collaborations are fostered by non-communicable diseases. a developed global support framework that pools the resources of its members towards research under Dr Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of UCT, recently took its four themes. over the reins as chair of the Partnership Board of WUN. At the AGM conference dinner in March, he Through its Research Development Fund, WUN outlined the collective vision of the organisation, reinvests a significant proportion of member revealing that WUN aims to increase its membership subscription fees into seeding sustainable, to 25 universities over the next five years. He international research collaborations. More than pointed out that WUN had no members from South 1 000 faculty and graduate students are actively America and membership gaps in, among other engaged in WUN initiatives, with many more taking regions, Africa, South East Asia, central Europe part in a vibrant schedule of conferences, workshops and mainland China. ‘By increasing our spread we and virtual seminars. establish ourselves as a network that tackles world issues,’ he explained. In 2012, two research development grants were made to two projects led by UCT scholars. The first Price observed that WUN members ensured of these went to Professor Naomi Levitt, head of the their students were prepared for an increasingly Division of Diabetic Medicine and Endocrinology, globalised world by facilitating student mobility and senior medical officer Dr Tolullah Oni, for their and by generating large research grants that can study on non-communicable/communicable disease sustain cross-continental, cross-institutional research syndemics (interaction) in transitional societies. Dr projects. Price added that the network played Celeste de Jager of the Department of Public Health a crucial role in the development of leadership, and Family Medicine is looking into the prevalence explaining that university leaders were able to ‘draw and impact of dementia in low-income areas in on the wisdom of (their) peers’. South Africa as part of the second WUN grant. Occasions such as the AGM, which brought together Other WUN-related activities by UCT included a all members of WUN, advance the university’s WUN colloquium on the epidemiological overlap strategic objective on ‘Internationalisation with an between infectious and non-communicable diseases Afropolitan Niche’ by linking WUN partners with in low- and middle-income countries and the health- universities in Africa. They also strengthen UCT’s system implications, hosted by Levitt and Oni in growing role and standing in WUN. 2013. The 2014 Annual General Meeting of the network was held in Cape Town in April. In the run- www.wun.ac.uk

strategic partnerships and programmes 35 SCHOLARS AT RISK

Political instability and insufficient funding opportunities frustrate the ambitions of many scholars in Africa. In 2007, in an attempt to assist such at-risk scholars from the continent and elsewhere, UCT and the UK-based Sigrid Rausing Trust established the Eric Abraham Refugee Scholarships, as a bursary fund for refugee scholars, and the Eric Abraham Academic Visitorships (EAAV).

Many of these scholars – mostly women – are at arena, and to promote the opportunity for ongoing risk because of a lack of resources and government collaborative African research projects and support in their home countries, and include interactions at UCT. Recipients include scholars from academics defined as ‘at risk’ by the New York-based Ethiopia, Iraq, Nigeria, the Philippines and Uganda, Scholars at Risk organisation. The main objectives of among others. The six-year grant, which ran until the funding are to promote African research in areas 2014, was valued at UK£342,000. where either the research topic or the researcher is at risk, to enable talented but disenfranchised www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/Grantees/University- academics to bring their research into the global of-Cape-Town-Trust

36 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT organisation for women in science for the developing world

The Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is the first international forum to unite eminent women scientists from the developing and developed worlds. The objective of the organisation – based at the offices of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in Trieste, Italy – is to strengthen the role of women scientists and to promote their representation in scientific and technological leadership.

The OWSD’s flagship programme is the Town (UCT) first joined the programme in 2007, Postgraduate Training Fellowships for Women when three UCT students (from Kenya, Tanzania and Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa and Least Uganda) received fellowships. The agreement was Developed Countries (LDC) at Centres of Excellence renewed in 2012 and, to date, 19 fellowships have in the South, which creates funding opportunities been awarded to UCT students. for women scientists to commence postgraduate studies leading to a PhD. The University of Cape owsd.ictp.it

strategic partnerships and programmes 37 trilateral agreement a leadership development partnership between uct, the university of fort hare and the university of venda

A Leadership Development Partnership between UCT, the University of Fort Hare and the University of Venda began in 2013, two years after it was first proposed.

The outcome of the trilateral agreement is at their home institution). One tangible target intended to be the development of strong envisioned by the partnership is the graduation of academic leaders through the collaborative 12 doctoral students by the end of 2018. generation of new knowledge and expertise. The main focus of the agreement is capacity In addition to their academic work, the senior development, although it is hoped that the academics also participate in committee work, partnership will also serve as a platform for further teach, attend conferences, take part in journal teaching and research collaborations. Joint clubs and round-table discussions, and are supervision is a key element in the programme, encouraged to develop a holistic sense of which takes on a split-site format (students are academia. The focus remains on leadership assigned two supervisors: one at UCT, the other development at an executive level.

38 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT AUSTRALIA-AFRICA universities network

The Australia-Africa Universities Network focuses engagement of Australian universities in sub-Saharan Africa to enable the provision of specific expertise across areas of priority for Australia and Africa.

Key objectives for the network are: and brings together researchers and academics through institutional partnerships in which they > Provide an intelligence and advisory portal for seek to address challenges facing both continents. government institutions, the corporate sector The network is led by Professor John Hearn of the and media to access, via a ‘one-stop-shop’, a University of Sydney and Professor Cheryl de la range of expertise on Africa. Rey of the University of Pretoria (formerly of the > Develop institutional research partnerships on University of Cape Town), and builds on current Africa. educational links between the continents. One > Develop capacity building and training programmes, objective of the network is to develop capacity for example, in governance, public sector reform, building and training programmes in areas such education, mining, agriculture and health. as food security, public sector reform, mining and > Produce innovative policy solutions through minerals, education and public health. Activities position papers with key academics, non- include a regular AAUN International Africa Forum government organisations, business and political (two were hosted in 2013), targeted workshops, representatives. research awards, a knowledge-sharing portal, and an > Provide post-training support for African scholars, alumni network. The aim is to have an equal number including an alumni network, linking with African of Australian and African universities in the network. communities in Australia as appropriate. Currently, the AAUN comprises 11 Australian and eight African institutions, including UCT. The Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) comprises leading universities in Australia and Africa, aaun.edu.au

strategic partnerships and programmes 39 university OF COLOGNE GLOBAL NETWORK PARTNERSHIP

The Global Network Partnership is the premier international collaboration programme of Germany’s University of Cologne (UoC). The initiative is designed as a ‘comprehensive and intensive’ cooperation model, addressing both research and teaching.

The programme seeks to establish innovative and sustainable structures as part of the partnership. Exchange activities target academics, students and professional staff. Partners are selected on the basis of their structural similarity to the UoC, and their standing in their countries and regions. UCT is the chosen African member in the six-university network, whose other partners are universities from Belgium, China, Japan and the United States of America (USA). Representatives from the IAPO and the Research Office were part of the UCT delegation that attended the 2013 Global Partner Network conference, held in Cologne.

An early outcome of UCT’s membership of this network is the collaboration with the University of Cologne on the DIES Proposal Writing Course. This course forms part of the Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies (DIES), which is a programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German of e-learning followed the course, which ended with Rectors’ Conference (HRK). The aim of the DIES another contact session from 17 to 21 November Proposal Writing Courses is to enable researchers 2014 at UCT. Thirty three participants who are and younger PhD holders (up to 40 years of age) researchers and young PhD holders from South from countries in the Global South (mainly Latin Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, America, Africa, the Middle East and South East Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi, Asia) to develop grant proposal writing skills that attended the course. meet international standards, and to design, write and budget a promising grant proposal for national verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/international/content/ and international research funding. The course was university_partnerships/global_network_ offered at UCT from 2 to 6 June 2014. Three months partneruniversities/index_eng.html

40 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT southERN african-nordic centre

The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a non-profit partnership between higher education institutions from all the Nordic countries and southern Africa, which includes the University of Cape Town. Its primary aim is to promote multilateral research cooperation on matters of importance to the development of both regions.

Starting with eight founding members in 2007, fields and research topics where the sharing of the partnership has since grown to include 42 resources and expertise will expand the capacity and institutions. Of these, 25 institutions are in southern achievements of each member. African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and Activities include workshops, an annual SANORD 17 are Nordic institutions in Denmark, Finland, symposium, and an international SANORD conference, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. SANORD seeks held every two years. The 2013 conference was held to stimulate multilateral research and innovation in Malawi. The SANORD International Symposium at by researchers who team up across institutional, Karlstad University, Sweden was held from 10 to 12 disciplinary and national boundaries. Member June 2014, where the theme was ‘A Sustainable Future institutions bring together people, experience, – Information Technology and Welfare Development’. expertise and equipment in multilateral and cross- disciplinary research groups. They identify academic sanord.uwc.ac.za/Pages/default.aspx

strategic partnerships and programmes 41 erasmus mundus

Since 2011, the University of Cape Town has been part of the Erasmus Mundus programmes. Many postgraduate students and staff members have received scholarships to study and research at various European universities. The various programmes form part of the Erasmus Mundus and External Cooperation division of the European Commission.

UCT has participated fully in the following UCT is proud to be associated with the EUSA_ID, programmes, which are administered for the EU-SATURN and INSPIRE scholarship programmes European Commission by the Education, Audiovisual for the academic years of 2014 and 2015. UCT and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA): students and staff are eligible to apply for these scholarship programmes as part of the Target > EMA2SA (Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Group 1 category. Ruhr-University Bochum Africa) (Germany) is the European co-coordinating partner > EUROSA (Europe and South African Partnership of EUSA_ID, while the University of the Western for Human Development) Cape is the South African coordinating partner. > EU-SATURN (European–South African programme in Tuning for Regional Needs in The co-coordinating partners for the EU-SATURN Higher Education) programme are the University of Groningen and > AESOP (A European and South African the University of the Free State. In the case of Partnership on Heritage and Past) INSPIRE, the partners are Uppsala in Sweden and > EUSA_ID (Capacity Building in Higher Education the University of the Western Cape. for improved cooperation between the European Union and South Africa in the field of The EUROSA scholarship programme is Development Studies) co-coordinated by the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. UCT students will be eligible to apply for a EUROSA scholarship as part of the Target Group 2 category.

Upon return, students and staff are able to integrate and share their experiences and renewed outlooks with the UCT community at large. The concept of internationalisation at home is thus further embedded. Returning exchange scholars become an invaluable resource in creating an international campus.

42 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT barnard college scholarships

One of the flagship outbound mobility programmes is the relationship between UCT and Barnard College.

It has facilitated fully paid scholarships for a semester end of 2015, when this agreement came to an end. at Barnard College for four female undergraduate UCT and Barnard College hope to continue their students per year, from 2011 to date. UCT sent 20 collaboration in the future, once a new source of undergraduate women students to Barnard by the funding is secured.

strategic partnerships and programmes 43 yale/fox international fellowships

The Yale Fellowship programme is a prestigious two-way international exchange programme between UCT and Yale University, supporting outstanding students with demonstrated leadership potential from the world’s finest educational institutions, and enabling them to spend an academic year at Yale University, pursuing independent research.

In return, UCT accepts Yale students as international level from institutions in Brazil, China, France, affiliates who come to UCT to pursue independent Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, research and collaborate with various UCT the United Kingdom and South Africa are selected departments. Grant awards for all students selected to participate in research at Yale University for one include tuition, airfare, health insurance, housing and year. Selected students need to start their period a stipend for living expenses. at Yale in August of the year of the award and they return to UCT the following June. To date, UCT has UCT is one of the 12 international institutions sent 12 students to Yale. whose students benefit from the Fox International Fellowships. Talented students at Master’s or PhD foxfellowship.yale.edu

44 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT miller-sidgwick international exchange scholarship: the university of michigan and the university of cape town

The Miller-Sidgwick is awarded to exceptional students in support of Telluride Association’s mission of promoting intellectual inquiry and democratic self-government.

The Scholarships were established by a bequest The UCT Miller Scholar is housed in the Michigan from the family of Reese Miller, Deep Springs ’52, Branch of the Telluride Association (MBTA). The Cornell Branch ’53, Telluride Association ‘55 and MBTA residence houses 25 undergraduate and Lincoln Exchange Scholar ‘59. postgraduate students attending the University of Michigan, as well as visiting faculty. Students In collaboration with UCT, the Telluride Association participate in community life at the residence while offers an international exchange opportunity for also developing and carrying out a public service UCT postgraduate students. The Miller-Sidgwick activity in Ann Arbor. In return, UCT receives one International Exchange Scholarship enables one University of Michigan student on the Semester postgraduate student to attend the University of Study Abroad programme for a one-year period as Michigan for one year of study. All university fees, an exchange student. travel costs, insurance, and living expenses are paid for by the scholarship through funds from the www.tellurideassociation.org/programs/ Telluride Association and the University of Michigan. university_students/us_awards.html

strategic partnerships and programmes 45 MASTERCARD foundation scholars program

In December 2013, the University of Cape Town partnered with the MasterCard Foundation in its Global Scholars Program; an initiative that will provide academically talented yet economically disadvantaged young people from developing countries – particularly from Africa – with access to quality and relevant secondary and university education.

46 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at Scholars Program Implementation Working Group: the University of Cape Town “Developing First the Office for Postgraduate Studies, the Postgraduate Generation African Leaders” will facilitate the Centre and Funding Office, Careers Office, the development of the next generation of transformative Department of Alumni and Development and the leaders by enabling 300 young leaders to pursue Office of the Registrar. Input to the project has further undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCT over been sought from departments across the university a period of ten years. UCT’s first MCF scholars arrived including the Department of Student Affairs and at the institution in February 2015. Communications and Marketing.

UCT’s partnership with The MasterCard Foundation The Scholars’ Program is one globally-branded will build on and strengthen the university’s strategic program with distinct executions at the secondary position, and in particular, its ability to achieve its and university levels. In partnering with the strategic Goals of ‘Internationalising UCT via an MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at UCT, Afropolitan Niche.’ In line with its vision and mandate the university recognises the powerful impact of a to “Empower Internationalisation at UCT,’ IAPO is the Scholars Program to transform the lives of Africans institutional hub of the Program. in Africa. Implementation of the project at UCT commenced in January 2014. IAPO, in partnership with the following www.mastercardfdn.org/youth-learning/the- offices, constitute the MasterCard Foundation mastercard-foundation-scholars-program

strategic partnerships and programmes 47 LONDON school of economics and political science (lSe)/UCT july school

The first LSE/UCT July School was held in 2013, and was attended by 100 participants from more than 30 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. It was a collaborative event organised by LSE and the Centre for Open Learning at UCT.

LSE and UCT offered the second LSE/UCT UCT has also welcomed two PhD students from July School in July 2014. This innovative two- LSE as international affiliates and has sent two week programme provides students, graduates and UCT PhD students to LSE for a short research professionals from around the world with an exciting exchange period. new opportunity to study important social science issues relevant to Africa today. The programme is www.lse.ac.uk/study/summerSchools/ taught by outstanding faculty members from UCT and LSE, two of the world’s leading institutions in teaching and research.

48 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the primary strategic partner in Africa for the Global Engagement Network (GEN) of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in the United States of America (USA). The two institutions share a long history of collaborative projects.

Major research initiatives include HealthWise developed in collaboration with the Eastern Cape South Africa, a five-year randomised trial on the Parks and Tourism Agency. In addition, there have effectiveness of HealthWise, a comprehensive been exchanges between the two institutions’ law universal prevention programme to reduce the schools. risk of HIV/AIDS and STDs; the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research UCT and PSU hosted a day-long scholarly and Training programme; and research related to engagement on shale gas extraction in 2014. This climate change. The partners have also collaborated interdisciplinary conversation will likely be expanded on several educational projects. These are the in the coming months to include international Cape Town Arts and Sciences Programme, which partners from Brazil and Eastern Europe. Key focal is administered by the Council on International points for discussion at present include: macro- Educational Exchange (CIEE); the Environmental economic and socio-economic issues, environmental Justice in South Africa programme, with the Centre and public health issues, technology and resource for Advanced Undergraduate Study and Experience; exploration, governance issues, environmental and an initiative known as Parks and People, humanities, and energy planning.

strategic partnerships and programmes 49 CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

On the basis of a general agreement between Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) in China and the University of Cape Town, signed at the 2nd Confucius Institutes Conference in Beijing in 2007, UCT entered a partnership with Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, in establishing a joint venture – the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Town.

language and culture around the world, and to oversee cultural exchanges. The Confucius Institute at UCT runs a host of extra-curricular and credit- bearing Chinese-language courses.

In addition, the institute manages several programmes that offer exchange opportunities to UCT students. The Confucius Institute scholarship programme sponsors UCT students, scholars and Chinese-language teachers to study Chinese at universities in China. The Confucius China Studies programme comprises a series of fellowships and grants that allow students to conduct doctoral studies in China. The programme also offers opportunities to academics to do research at An opening ceremony was held on January 20, Chinese universities, funds publications on 2010. It was not until July 2010 that the Confucius Chinese studies, and assists academics to host Institute started functioning, devoting itself or attend international conferences on Chinese to the teaching of Chinese language, and to studies. A popular programme has been the strengthening educational and cultural exchanges Chinese Language and Culture Summer Camp, and friendly cooperation between China and which offers students a chance to spend about South Africa. In 2010, the University of Cape Town two weeks in China. During this time, the students (UCT) joined the global network of some 1 000 tour the country and take part in intensive Chinese Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms, language and cultural courses. A total of 95 UCT with the establishment of a Confucius Institute students participated in these camps between 2011 at the university. Together, these institutions and and 2014. classrooms, affiliated to the Chinese Ministry of Education, are designed to promote Chinese www.confucius.uct.ac.za

50 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT strategic initiatives of the research office

The Research Office manages a range of on-going initiatives to support the internationalisation of research. The management of large, collaborative funding bids is increasingly under the spotlight and, to enhance the University’s capacity to support such efforts, the Research Office has secured an International Extramural Associate Research Development Award (IEARDA), from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States of America (USA), to help develop the skills required to support such activity.

A staff member was enabled to spend a number level agreements, mobility funds and three-way of weeks at the NIH’s offices in Washington, PhD bursary packages. Ideally, each agreement learning about the NIH’s key policies, processes will include partners from both the Global South and procedures. In addition, the Research and the North, forming a triangular research Office secured a supplementary NIH grant that and supervisory relationship. The goals are to allows IEARDA awardees to pass on their grants produce a cohort of exceptionally well-trained management skills to other research administrators researchers whose work will be considered globally in Africa. To this end, six such awardees – including competitive, to increase the number of PhD one from UCT – presented a five-day workshop graduates, and to formalise a model for supervision on grants management to 22 participants from 15 that supplements current PhD training practice. institutions representing 11 Francophone African The project has started with the formalisation of countries, in Dakar, Senegal, in May/June 2013. So partnerships based on existing collaboration and successful was the workshop that the presenters joint training of PhD students at universities in were invited to present their case to prospective Brazil and Africa, Germany and the USA. donors in Washington in August that year. Of all higher education institutions outside the USA, UCT The work of the newly established Office of receives the highest overall amount of funding in Research Integrity (ORI), located within the direct grants from the NIH – US$9 million in 2013, Research Office, is designed to support and an increase from US$6.85 million in 2012. underpin international collaborations and funding arrangements. So, for example, the ORI has UCT’s Global Partnerships Project is currently in conducted a review of ethics policies at UCT, the pilot phase and aims to establish a blueprint laying the groundwork for a comprehensive for PhD training that will stimulate the creation of conflict of interest policy that will cover the new knowledge and support the next generation participation of UCT scholars in, among other of researchers. Such a model will be founded on initiatives, research projects that involve multiple existing and productive research collaborations in sites in different jurisdictions. The ORI has also the Global South, strengthened through executive- identified opportunities for input on policy

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developments that pertain to research integrity information-management tools that, for example, and the internationalisation of UCT research. look at patterns of research internationalisation. For instance, the ORI has commented on a draft Amongst other things, such tools allow UCT to policy of the NIH on the sharing of data from identify areas where it has strong international international genomics studies. The ORI is a collaborations and to pinpoint emerging areas of resource that supports both UCT research and interdisciplinary research. internationalisation, particularly initiatives that rely on research consortia, steering committees for These findings can help the university to tap scholarly resources, and data-sharing agreements. into new research opportunities, and to direct the strategic use of funding. UCT has deployed A growing strategy in developing Elsevier’s SciVal Spotlight management tool for ‘co- internationalisation is the use of research citation’ analysis.

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This tool, acquired through a partnership grant The map indicates the number of universities in from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, each country with which UCT collaborates. identifies and analyses interdisciplinary areas of research excellence (or ‘competencies’) at the UCT subscribes to ‘Research Professional Africa’, university. It has been used extensively over the an online platform that allows access to the latest last year to investigate UCT’s collaborations with global coverage of research funding programmes, international institutions, measured by co-authored as well as to science and technology news and journal publications. innovation policy documents.

The tool has, for example, pointed out that UCT African researchers are eligible for all researchers are among the world leaders in many of international funding opportunities advertised on the 97 competencies identified for UCT. the site.

53 INTERNATIONAL02 Mobility

The International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) has as its core business to facilitate and promote all facets of internationalisation at UCT.

54 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT Mobility

international mobility 55 semester study abroad

After South Africa’s democratic elections in 1994 global attention shifted and universities across the world expressed an interest in creating academic links and partnerships with the University of Cape Town (UCT). As a result of the mounting interest, Professor Martin West, one of UCT’s Deputy Vice- Chancellors at that time, realised that internationalisation would play an integral role in the development of a democratic tertiary institution.

uring this time it also became apparent that the links that had arisen between DUCT and other partner institutions needed to be managed and formalised. As a result, a permanent home for internationalisation had to be found within the university, and the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) was therefore established in 1996.

The funding to establish IAPO was to be partly generated by developing a programme to bring in North American students to spend a semester at UCT. In order to benchmark the most successful programmes in countries where Semester Study Since 2002, the SSA Abroad (SSA) programmes had been implemented, Professor West visited universities in Australia. The numbers have grown by idea was to create a similar programme at UCT, which would simultaneously bridge the gap of isolation forced upon students and academics during apartheid, and form part of an income stream for the 84.7% newly established IAPO. – an average of 5.29 percent per annum Although international universities had expressed interest in signing exchange agreements with UCT, this was not feasible at that stage due to high currency exchange rates and the weak rand. Bringing the SSA programme to UCT was a means of enabling ‘internationalisation at home’ through

56 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT the integration of international students on campus 152 students coming to UCT during that year. By and their participation in classroom discussions. 2006, this number had grown to 673 per annum. The massive success of this programme at UCT In 2010, IAPO’s record year to date, 1,026 SSA solidified the dream of IAPO’s first director, Dr Lesley students spent a semester at UCT. Since 2002, the Shackleton, who viewed the SSA programme as SSA numbers have grown by 84.7 per cent – an an opportunity to ‘develop global citizenship and average of 5.29 per cent per annum. The majority leadership’. of SSA students come from the United States of America, with Norwegian students taking second The programme is designed for international place in terms of national numbers. A growing students who wish to spend one or two semesters at number come from the rest of Europe and the rest UCT, taking (mostly) undergraduate courses for the of the world. purpose of transferring credit, on the completion of these courses, to their home institution for (usually) Currently seven members of staff are dedicated undergraduate degree credit. to the SSA programme, and they are divided into academic-focused staff (academic queries, The success of the programme to date is self- admissions, enrolment and transcripts) and evident – and is reflected in the statistics. In supplementary-focused staff (student life, emergency 1998, the SSA programme officially started, with response, orientation and housing).

INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 57 uct students on international exchange

The international best practice for student exchange is reciprocal mobility between partners. At UCT this is a priority, but the key challenge is to finance the reciprocity despite unfavourable exchange rates. As a result, the visible trend is that many students come to UCT, but far fewer UCT students go to other universities. Despite this difference in inbound and outbound exchanges, the Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) that UCT has signed have cultivated important partnerships that have strengthened over the years.

hrough the Postgraduate Funding Office, UCT offers conference travel grants Tcompetitively to young researchers who will contribute to future research. Master’s students may receive funding for travel to conferences in the SADC region, while PhD candidates may receive funding for travel to both local and international conferences. In addition, the office offers scholarships for international travel, which are available to assist masters and doctoral students to proceed to an approved international institution for a visiting scholars’ programme, for research, or to attend UCT Students who are specific and approved courses. The awards are awarded an intended for individual senior students and have been established to enhance their research activities being conducted for the completion of MMUF their degrees. scholarship Linking postgraduate student mobility to research typically attend initiatives at UCT is a long-standing practice, with two undergraduate many principal investigators exchanging research conferences students between their laboratories during the course of a research project. These mobilities are managed by the researchers themselves, and are funded from research funds.

58 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT UCT students also have access to international opportunities through scholarship programmes such as the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) programme, administered in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED). The MMUF programme is the centrepiece of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. UCT students who have been awarded an MMUF scholarship typically attend two undergraduate conferences, one in Atlanta and one at UCT, during their scholarship period.

INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 59 STAFF MOBILITY ADMINISTERED BY IAPO

IAPO facilitates the mobility of Professional, Administrative and Support Staff (PASS), through general university exchanges, and the mobility of academic staff, through specific consortia or bilateral exchange programmes.

he Erasmus Mundus programmes in which UCT participates offer opportunities for T staff mobility scholarships, allowing UCT academics and PASS staff to spend some time at the partner campus, engaging in teaching, research or professional development.

For PASS staff, additional exchange opportunities are offered through bilateral mobility arrangements with other universities. These exchanges are typically 7 to 21 days in length and are predominantly located at North American partner For universities.

The award of such opportunities is by application and is competitive. Applicants are required to PASS submit a proposal and project plan highlighting staff, additional how they wish to benefit from the host institution exchange opportunities and how this knowledge will be applied upon are offered through their return. If a PASS staff member is shortlisted, he or she is interviewed by a panel consisting bilateral arrangements of representatives from all faculties and two with other univiersities representatives from IAPO who specialise in mobility. A formal report needs to be submitted six weeks after the staff member returns.

At the time of writing, PASS mobility opportunities were available at Simon Fraser University, Canada; the University of California, USA; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

60 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 61 FACULTIES03

The International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) has as its core business to facilitate and promote all facets of internationalisation at UCT.

62 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT faculties 63 HUMANITIES

The Faculty of Humanities supports the University of Cape Town’s ‘Internationalisation with an Afropolitan Niche’ strategy through the programmes run by its departments and research centres, groups and units, and the research interests of its individual scholars and researchers. This includes the research of senior postgraduate students and postdoctoral research fellows.

he faculty addresses the university’s Afropolitan ambitions through initiatives Tsuch as the African Cinema Unit, the Tombouctou Project and Continental Connections Programme of the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), the many projects of the Democracy in Africa Research Unit, the Africa, Reading, Humanities and Coetzee Collective seminar series in the Department of English and the Sawyer Seminar series in the Department of Anthropology.

The faculty further disseminates its scholarship in In 2013, the Africa – another strategic initiative – through HUMA seminars and meetings, the establishment of an faculty had registered African Film Collection in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, and through the role academics play as editors of scholarly publications. To broaden 32 the pool of African scholars at UCT, departments registered postdoctoral and academics have established links with scholars and institutions from the rest of the continent. fellows, 17 of whom Students from other African countries are attracted were international. to programmes like the Global Studies Master’s Programme in the Department of Sociology. Departments and scholars also explore avenues for collaborative research and teaching with colleagues based at other African universities, for example the Department of Philosophy’s links with the University of Ghana, and an agreement between the Department of Psychology and the University of Malawi.

64 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT Country of Origin Department / Research Unit

Brazil Department of Religious Studies Linguistics Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, Germany Anthropology and Linguistics Centre for Rhetoric Studies Department of Religious Studies Italy (3) School of Languages and Literatures, Italian Social Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Kenya Anthropology and Linguistics Social Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Namibia Anthropology and Linguistics Centre for African Studies Netherlands (2) Department of Psychology Nigeria Centre for African Studies Historical Studies Linguistics Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, United Kingdom (3) Anthropology and Linguistics United States of America (2) Centre for Social Science Research Zambia Department of Sociology

Zimbabwe Centre for African Studies

To strengthen UCT’s international research profile, 22 per cent of students are international students. scholars visit international institutions and, in The faculty remains a favourite destination for return, host scholars from universities overseas. Semester Study Abroad (SSA) students, with Research collaborations with leading institutions about 700 students hosted annually. The SSA and scholars in Europe and the Americas form an programme also provides financial support for the important part of that process. The Global Studies faculty’s students to travel abroad on exchange. programme with the University of Freiburg in Germany and India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University is In 2013, the faculty had 32 registered a model for a co-badged degree and is unique in postdoctoral fellows, 17 of whom were the faculty. Much of this engagement with the rest international (53 per cent). of the world is driven by individual scholars and departments, centres, units and groups in Staff Exchanges and Networking the faculty. International exchanges and networking International Students and Post- involve a range of activities, from research and Doctoral Fellows teaching to presentations at conferences, as well as participation in colloquia, meetings and International undergraduate students in the faculty workshops. During 2013, staff were involved in a comprise 21 per cent of the total undergraduate number of activities, visits, projects and networks. student enrolment in 2013. At postgraduate level, A selection of these highlights follows:

FACULTIES 65 Institutions Visited on Staff Exchanges International staff and > Mannes College of Music in New York, USA appointments > Instituto Superior del Colon in Buenos Aires, > Argentina The faculty has many international scholars among > University of Cologne, Germany its staff. In 2013 staff from Germany, the UK and > School of Oriental and African Studies, University Zambia were appointed. of London, UK > Yale University, USA Recent International linkages > Das Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin ist ein -Institute for Advanced Study, Germany International collaborations, partnerships and > University of Minnesota, USA exchange programmes with institutions abroad > Indiana University, USA vary greatly from department to department, and > Duke University, USA are too numerous to mention. The following are a > University of Amsterdam, Netherlands few examples of new collaborations or partnerships > Cornell University, USA formed in 2013. > Harvard University, USA > University of Illinois, USA The French Studies section in the School of Languages > Auburn University, USA and Literatures has an exchange programme with the > Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands University of Montpellier III. This programme involves > University of Hamburg, Germany students from Montpellier attending classes at UCT > University of Toulouse, France and assisting students with French.

Projects and networks The Opera School has four ongoing collaborative > Africa-Asia Research Network international relationships with the following > Afrobarometer project: a public opinion study of institutions: the University Opera College in the > 35 African countries, with colleagues in the USA University of the Arts, Sweden; the University of and Ghana Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance; > African legislatures project: a study of 17 the Coget Centre for Humanities at Brown countries University, USA; and the Sibelius Academy, > Legislating and Implementing Welfare Policy Finland. All these collaborations involve staff as Reforms (LIWPR) project: a study of 15 countries well as student exchanges. > Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP), involving southern African countries The Department of English is part of a three- > Civic Education and Democracy project, with way exchange, funded by the German Academic colleagues in the USA and Australia Exchange Service (DAAD), with Kenyatta University > Heritage Dynamics: The Politics of Authentication in Kenya and the Free University in Germany. and the Aesthetics of Persuasion, involving Together with the French Studies section, the English colleagues in Amsterdam, Ghana and Brazil department has also entered into a student exchange > The Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity: an agreement with Paul Valery University in France. international collaborative project > Islam in Africa Network, involving colleagues in The national chair in social anthropology in the Africa and Europe Department of Social Anthropology hosts a civil- > Ministerial Special Project on the future of the society project, the Archival Platform. The project’s Humanities and the Social Sciences primary constituency is southern Africa, but it has > Responses to Interpersonal Violence Network, also developed a strong international profile. involving colleagues from Sweden, the UK The Department of Religious Studies has a long- and Canada term relationship with the University of Hamburg’s > Indigenous Research Network, involving Department of Education, which has led to faculty colleagues from the University of Sydney exchanges, conferences and joint publications.

66 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) has longstanding connections with colleagues and institutions in Senegal, Mali and Morocco through current and former PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows. HUMA has hosted visiting scholars from Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ethiopia. In Europe, HUMA scholars have ongoing collaborations with the Universities of Hamburg, Bergen and Leiden in Germany.

Visiting Scholars

The faculty hosted 14 AW Mellon Visiting Scholars in 2013. These Mellon scholars came from Argentina, As part of the DAAD-funded exchange, staff from Australia, Colombia, India, Mali, the UK and the the Department of English will visit Kenyatta USA. Countless other scholars have also visited UCT. University in 2014, while a scholar from this Most of the scholars hailed from the UK and the university will spend time at UCT. The Archive USA, but have also included academics from Israel and Public Culture Research Initiative and the and Uganda. Archival Platform will have a joint project with the Museum of Aids in Africa, incorporating multiple Future Internationalisation Plans African partners. The Department of Religious Studies will host the biannual conference of the A number of activities were scheduled for 2014. The African Association for the Study of Religions. French Section will host an international conference The Gordon Institute for Performing and entitled Confluences: transoceanic encounters. Creative Arts (GIPCA) will stage the acclaimed The Centre for Film and Media Studies will explore interdisciplinary theatre production, Hate Radio, formalising a collaboration with the University of addressing the Rwandan genocide. Glasgow, UK, and the African Cinema Unit will host the third alt.Africa Film Festival, scheduled to Internationalisation Highlights coincide with Africa Month. International exhibitions were presented by staff from The Department of Political Studies will host a visit the Michaelis School of Fine Art. These included: by José Manuel Durão Barroso, president of the European Union Commission. The South African > Professor Jane Alexander’s solo exhibition, College of Music will organise a teaching exchange Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope), at St with the musicology section of Germany’s University John the Divine, New York. of Potsdam. The Department of Philosophy will > Professor Stephen Inggs presented work at host AW Mellon Scholar Professor Jonathan Wolff Graphic Arts from the World – Africa, at the of University College London, and will also host the International Centre for Graphic Arts in Poland. international Social Equality Conference in 2014. > Associate Professor Berni Searle’s work entitled Refuge was on show at La Galerie Particuliere, The Department of English is collaborating France. Searle’s Distance and Desire. Encounters with Extra-Mural Studies and with colleagues at with the African Archive. Part II: Contemporary Birmingham University and the University of Western Reconfigurationswas exhibited in the Walther Australia to co-convene a conference entitled Craft Collection Project Space, New York, USA. Her Wars on poetry in South Africa, Australia and the Earth Matters was part of an exhibition at the Caribbean, which will be hosted by UCT. The Africa, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Reading, Humanities series hopes to attract scholars > PhD student Brenton Maart was curator of South from the rest of Africa. African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

FACULTIES 67 HEALTH SCIENCES

With regards to the research enterprise, the Faculty of Health Sciences is already strongly engaged in international activity, both in Africa and on other continents. A key research strategy is to promote collaboration and partnerships. This includes collaborating with groups outside of South Africa, located in universities, science councils, research institutes and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Africa and globally. In addition to promoting investigator-led collaborations, the faculty often develops broader strategic partnerships with international organisations.

art of the faculty’s international portfolio includes attracting first- P rate postgraduate students from across Africa and building Africa’s emerging The number researcher capacity, whilst simultaneously supporting the conduct of research in African of international study sites and focusing on Africa’s health students in the research priorities. undergraduate The faculty’s research enterprise engages programmes internationally in the following ways: increased from > Research groups collaborate with scientists at foreign institutions. > Research groups are supported by international funders. 51 > Departments train international postgraduate in 2012 to students and postdoctoral fellows. > Researchers provide advice via international health-related bodies, for example, the World Health Organisation (WHO). 98 > Researchers review journal articles and play in 2013 editorial roles on international journals. > Researchers conduct contract research trials for international funders, NGOs and pharmaceutical companies. > Academics from foreign institutions sit on some of the faculty’s scientific advisory boards.

68 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT These factors significantly shape the research that host visiting scholars, while other visits were funded the faculty’s scholars conduct, both in volume by researchers themselves, or by their visitors. and nature. Recent Internationalisation Students Highlights

The number of international students in the The Community Eye Health Institute (CEHI), founded undergraduate programmes increased from 51 in 2008, has been one of the front-running capacity- in 2012 to 98 in 2013. The students represented building initiatives in the faculty. In support of Vision 11 countries, nine of which are African countries. 2020, the global initiative for the elimination of Similarly, at postgraduate level, there was a 98 avoidable blindness spearheaded by WHO and the per cent increase in the number of international International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness students (from 413 in 2012 to 801 in 2013). The (IAPB), CEHI has run eye-care programmes in students represented 52 countries, of which 26 sub-Saharan Africa and other WHO regions. CEHI are African countries. The number of postgraduate focused on management training and development students from African countries increased from support, while also providing invaluable monitoring 338 in 2012 to 673 in 2013. In addition, three and evaluation services. Since CEHI’s establishment, students were involved in exchange programmes its four training programmes have been completed with Emory University in the United States of by more than 120 participants, hailing from over 20 America (USA). African countries, as well as Afghanistan, the United Kingdom (UK) and Yemen. Of the participants, 25 Scholars have graduated with Postgraduate Diplomas in Community Eye Health and, in 2012, the first student In 2013, the University Research Committee (URC) completed the Master’s of Public Health (Community awarded six grants to academics in the faculty Eye Health track). to support the hosting of conferences at UCT. These conferences were entitled ‘Immunology of Professor Karen Sliwa, Director of the Hatter Diseases’, ‘Emerging Trends in the Pharmacology Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, is of the RAS’, the ‘International Paediatric Surgical increasingly recognised as a leader in the study of Research Society Symposium’, the ‘History of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition Anaesthesia and Ethics Symposium’, the ‘Institute experienced during pregnancy in which the mother’s of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine heart dilates and weakens. Sliwa has worked to (IIDMM) 10 Year Anniversary Celebratory raise awareness of the disorder, and has established Symposium’, and ‘Heteronormativity and Health: connections with the European Cardiac Society Education and Practice’. Working Group on PPCM, while overseeing a large international registry on PPCM. With a collaborator The URC also awarded 54 grants to the faculty’s in Australia, she established a population study academics in 2013 to support their attendance – the Heart of Soweto Study – to investigate the at international conferences. It is noteworthy prevalence, presentation and management of that academics also attended numerous other cardiac disease in an urban African population. She conferences, supported by their own research funds. has expanded the study, which highlights the high prevalence of hypertension, obesity and cardiac In addition, researchers regularly visit international disease in women of childbearing age, to other peers and collaborators. While many of these visits African countries, including Kenya, Mozambique, are funded by academics’ own research funds or Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, and to include data by their international hosts, the URC specifically on over 8 000 patients. Sliwa also co-leads, with a supported six international short research visits colleague in Mozambique, the Pulmonary Vascular by faculty investigators in 2013. Similarly, the URC Research Institute for the Sub-Saharan Africa Region, awarded nine grants that allowed academics to which aims to improve research and knowledge on

FACULTIES 69 pulmonary vascular disease in the region. initiated a collaboration with associates in Brazil and India, and the project was entitled ‘Occupational From 2002 to 2011, the faculty’s Bioethics Centre Therapy Education for Social Transformation managed to establish a pioneering capacity-building (OTEST): A pilot co-operative inquiry’. The project initiative to address the shortcomings of research was funded by Higher Education South Africa ethics in southern Africa. With funding from the two and the National Research Foundation, under the independent groups, Fogarty International Centre auspices of the academic committee of the India– and the International Research Ethics Network for Brazil–South Africa Trilateral Forum. Southern Africa (IRENSA), the Diploma in International Research Ethics was launched, as well as an annual Since 2007, Associate Professor Madeleine Duncan seminar on research ethics. The diploma became the of the division has led two projects funded by the first to target mid-career professionals. Nearly 100 South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on trainees, from South Africa, Botswana, Kenya and Alternatives in Development. One project explores Zambia, completed the programme. The diploma the dynamic relationship between poverty, disability inspired a follow-up programme that will be offered at and occupation, while the second investigates the UCT’s partner institution, Stellenbosch University. mechanisms of disability-inclusive development through policy literacy. With collaborators in Europe, Teaching and Research Duncan has developed ‘Competencies for Poverty Collaborations Reduction’, known as COPORE, an international project that investigates how ‘poverty and cohesion’ For the past 12 years, Professor Solly Benatar, problems are linked to health. founding director of the UCT Bioethics Centre, has coordinated and taught an annual module on In other OT collaborations, Dr Helen Buchanan ‘International Research Ethics and Cross Cultural leads a team of researchers at UCT working with a Considerations’ at the Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) group at the University of South Australia to explore at the University of Toronto. Benatar was appointed as pedagogy and tools for creative problem-solving as Visiting Scholar in Global Health at the Balsillie School part of the graduate exit competencies. Loren Lewis of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University in is currently involved in a pilot study in collaboration Canada, in addition to other appointments. with Coventry University, UK, to investigate how OT programmes at both institutions have enabled The division of Occupational Therapy (OT) graduates to exercise agency as part of the mental attracts requests for formalised Memoranda of health workforce. Understanding (MoU) and collaborations from throughout the world. The division consults regularly The Division of Communication Sciences and with the Occupational Therapy Africa Regional Disorders (CSD) runs a joint course on ‘Public Health Group (OTARG), among other partnerships. The Planning for Hearing Impairment’ in collaboration division offers support to individual researchers on with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical the continent, including occupational therapists from Medicine. The course is aimed at capacity building Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Rwanda. for the ear and hearing healthcare workforce in Within the division, Associate Professors Elelwani developing countries. Participants hail from South Ramugondo and Madie Duncan have, with a grant Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, from the Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Fund, initiated a Tanzania and Zimbabwe. project that focuses on capacity-building among OT scholars from Africa. The project assists UCT Master’s In other CSD networks, Dr Michal Harty collaborates graduates from five African countries – Lesotho, with colleagues at Vanderbilt University, USA, on a Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, and Swaziland – to set project entitled ‘Exploring the Needs for [Enhanced up OT programmes in their countries. Milieu] Language Intervention in South Africa’. PhD student Lucretia Petersen is assisting with the The division’s Associate Professor Roshan Galvaan assembly of research equipment for a project at San

70 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT Diego University, working alongside her US research opportunities, which include research meetings. mentor. On an academic visit to the division, Dr Twelve of these meetings have already been Titus Ibekwe of the University of Abuja was involved hosted. Ninety-two per cent of doctoral scholarships in academic teaching and advised staff on research and postdoctoral fellowships were awarded to and publications. He has continued to maintain a researchers from Africa, and a third of all awards to working relationship with the division, including scholars from outside South Africa. the co-authoring of four articles. Additional visitors included a group from the University of Queensland, Three open educational resources (OER) initiatives Australia. In turn, the division’s Professor Shajila were launched by the Division of Otorhinolaryngology Singh spent some time in Ethiopia, working to provide ear, nose and throat (ENT), and head alongside scholars, a UCT graduate among them, and neck surgeons from other African countries at Addis Ababa University on the development of with access to textbooks and educational material, a speech-language therapy education and training which are not easily accessible. The first initiative is programme. The division received requests from the website www.entdev.uct.ac.za, or ‘Promoting the Higher Health Science Institute (ISCISA) in Education for Developing World ENT’, which hosts Mozambique and a Rwandan institution to help information on how to run surgical dissection courses, with establishing programmes in speech-language and lists scholarships and training opportunities as pathology and audiology, respectively. well as free educational resources. The Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Operative Since the conception of the Disability Studies Surgery (also at www.entdev.uct.ac.za) is a free open Academic Programme (DSAP) of the Department of access surgical atlas that instructs surgeons how Health and Rehabilitation Studies in 2003, DSAP has to perform ENT operations. The chapters of the become a flagship internationalisation initiative in atlas have been downloaded over 100 000 times. the department. The programme, which includes a The newest addition, the Open Access Guide to one-year postgraduate diploma in disability studies, Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists, is which can be converted to a MPhil or PhD, was a practical guide for ENT surgeons on how to assess formed in partnership with experts at the University hearing and fit hearing aids. The textbooks, registered of Leeds, UK. The programme has become a major with Creative Commons, are being translated into capacity-building opportunity in Africa, attracting Portuguese and French by ENT colleagues. students from Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Moreover, the One of the milestones of the sickle-cell disease programme has, in collaboration with Stellenbosch (SCD) research group in the Division of Human University, worked with institutions in Ghana to Genetics is the establishing of a network of develop courses there, and is building collaborations African physicians and scientists, with funding in Europe. received from the Human Heredity & Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium. A key objective DSAP staff are part of three professional and of the group, which has members from South academic networks in Africa, namely, the Community Africa, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Based Rehabilitation Africa Network (CAN), the the Congo, Ghana and Tanzania, is to advance Occupational Therapy Africa Regional Group their understanding of genomics research and the (OTARG), and the Africa Network for Evidence public health aspects of SCD from the perspectives into Action on Disability (AfriNEAD), which all aim of research scientists, health professionals, SCD to develop leadership capacity in teaching and patients and communities. research in higher education institutions and relevant government departments. The Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative (CIDRI), founded with the support of a host of international partners in 2008, brings together local, African and international researchers for networking

FACULTIES 71 science

The internationalisation strategy of the Faculty of Science is embedded within its routine expectations of staff activities, most of which occur within the international arena. This is to be expected of a Science Faculty in a university ranked among the world’s top 200 universities, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2013. Engagement with the international community is encouraged, indeed assumed, and all departments in the faculty participate actively in all spheres of internationalisation, driven largely by individuals.

ccording to the subject rankings of the World University Rankings, UCT’s Science AFaculty is placed within the 101 to 150 top universities for the biological sciences and for environmental science, and within the 51 to 100 top universities for the earth and marine sciences. These rankings are a clear indication that the faculty successfully engages on an international platform. The vast majority of staff in the faculty have international collaborators and spend some time every year visiting such Over collaborators, or attending conferences or workshops elsewhere in the world.

50% The number of international institutions with whom of the faculty’s staff in the faculty have partnered over the past five Master’s and PhD years (and from which publications arose) amount to many hundreds. These include over 300 collaborators students spend time in the USA alone, a few hundred in Europe, 23 in at international Russia, and 28 in China. This global network leads institutions or to regular interactions with international colleagues. Scholars from across the world, including academics at international from Africa, visit staff in the faculty throughout conferences during the the year, and the faculty’s scholars engage with course of their studies. institutions in the rest of Africa where collaboration opportunities occur. The faculty intends to strengthen ties with a select few institutions in Africa, and hopes to make progress in this regard during 2014.

72 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT Greenland 15 Finland 12 9 Iceland 3 Canada Norway Sweden2 Russia United 8 2 23 17 48 Kingdom116 8 4 1097126 9 7 10 59 2 Kasakhstan 78 15 1 1 Mongolia United States 6 9 1 54 1044 1 1 Afghanistan Japan 322 2 China 1 1 8 Iraq 7 3 Pakistan 28 17 1 Algeria Libya 1 1 Egypt 1 Mexico 1 Saudi 1 India 13 1 1 MaliNiger SudanArabia 1 39 Thailand 2 Venezuela 1 1 Chad 1 2 5 3 2 1 10 1 Ethiopia 1 4 Colombia 1 4 3 DRC Kenya 3 3 Tanzania Indonesia Papua New Peru Brazil 1 Angola 1 Guinea 28 Bolivia Namibia 1 1 43 1 8 Botswana Australia Chile 9 1 23 South Africa 10 Argentina New Zealand

This international context provides many UCT Students Sent on Exchange opportunities for travelling to the faculty’s graduate students. Over 50 per cent of the faculty’s Master’s The faculty sends about five undergraduates on and PhD students spend time at international exchange to international institutions every year. institutions or at international conferences during the course of their studies. International Staff

International Students and Post- A significant proportion of academic staff in the faculty Doctoral Fellows – about 35 per cent – comes from other countries. Of the 18 recent academic staff appointments, about The faculty is home to many international students 80 per cent were of international origin. A measure at undergraduate and postgraduate level. At of the international visibility of the faculty is found in undergraduate level, over 15 per cent of students the predominance of applicants for academic posts are international, of which 60 per cent are from coming from other countries. Given the significant elsewhere in Africa. Similarly, at postgraduate level, numbers of international staff, the faculty has no 32 per cent of students are international, and 70 immediate plans to increase the current proportion. per cent of these are from the rest of Africa. These numbers remain fairly static, but this balance suits Staff Exchanges and Networking the faculty, which has no specific plans to increase the numbers. Postdoctoral numbers are high (153 Scholars in the faculty travel extensively each in 2013), and some 50 per cent of these research year, meeting with collaborators, and attending fellows were international. conferences, workshops and committee meetings of

FACULTIES 73 scientific societies. These visits are made to Europe, international visitors from all corners of the globe. Asia, North and South America, Africa and the Some visitors spend only a few days here, while Pacific Rim, including New Zealand and Australia. other visitors embark on lengthier visits that may There are no formal staff exchange agreements extend to weeks or months. In 2013 the annual at faculty or departmental level, although a staff Dean’s Visitor was Professor Sandra McGuire of secondment arrangement exists between the H3-D the University of Louisiana. McGuire spent a week Research Centre in the Department of Chemistry lecturing and meeting with departments to discuss and Novartis, a drug development company based the factors affecting undergraduate throughput. in Switzerland. The Dean visited the University of The faculty also hosted three leading international Mahajanga in Madagascar at their invitation to scholars from the United Kingdom (UK) who spent discuss a possible exchange agreement, which is in a week at UCT conducting a review of the faculty’s the process of being finalised. research activities. Their home institutions are the University of St Andrews, the University of The map on page 73 shows the location and number Southampton, and the University of Newcastle. Over of productive international collaborations that have the course of a year, about 100 general visitors are led to research publications emanating from the hosted by the faculty. Science Faculty over the past five years. Recent International Linkages International Visits, Conferences and Colloquia The faculty staff are involved in hundreds of international collaborations. At a broader level, Staff in the faculty hosted three large international the Dean visited the Universities of St Andrews conferences in 2013. These were the Sixth and Bristol during 2013 to discuss linkages, and International Conference: Hard and Electromagnetic to receive advice on structures and processes. No Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions general exchange agreements have been signed, (Theoretical Physics); the Fourth Annual Symposium but joint degrees or co-badged degrees with on Computing for Development (Computer international institutions have become popular. The Science); and the Sixth International Conference on faculty has signed or is in the process of signing Information and Communication Technologies and agreements with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Development (Computer Science). the Netherlands; and the University of Bretagne Occidentale, University Montpellier and University These locally hosted international conferences are Aix Marseille, all in France. extremely important for the international visibility of faculty scholars, and lead to new collaborations Future Internationalisation Plans and an awareness of what the faculty and UCT have to offer. Smaller international workshops that were As its research develops, driven by individual held in 2013 include the successful Partnership researchers, the faculty will continue to grow its for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) international footprint. As before, its research workshop, held in January 2013. A RAIN (Regional activities will continue to be deeply embedded in Archives for Integrated iNvestigations) workshop international collaborations, and will be supported was held in November 2013 in collaboration with and encouraged by departments and the faculty. German institutions, and investigated how climate The Dean will make further efforts to identify and associated environmental conditions have possible linkages with universities in Africa where changed during the late quaternary. infrastructure and opportunities make this possible.

Visiting Scholars Internationalisation Highlights

A record of academic visitors to departments is not Scholars from the Department of Astronomy will kept, but most departments have a steady stream of serve as principal investigators on four studies

74 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT that will be run on MeerKAT, the 64-dish radio telescope currently under construction in the Karoo and which will serve as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the multi-billion rand international project that will, in 2024, culminate in the world’s largest radio telescope. The four UCT proposals, or ‘Large Survey Projects’, are among 21 that were approved for the launch of MeerKAT. These 21 projects will involve more than 500 radio astronomers from around the globe, including 59 astronomers from South Africa.

The department’s Dr Sarah Blyth, together with collaborators from the European Space Agency and Rutgers University in the USA, will lead the LADUMA project, an ultra-deep survey of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe. Honorary Professor Erwin de Blok’s Mongoose study will focus on the most recent observations of 30 nearby galaxies, attempting to probe the distribution of dark matter in these galaxies. The MIGHTEE project, led by Dr Kurt van der Heyden and a partner from the University of Oxford, will explore the radio continuum emission from the earliest galaxies. In their ThunderKAT project, Professor Patrick Woudt and an Oxford collaborator will lead the hunt for dynamic and explosive radio transients, both in our own galaxy and across the universe. to create new technologies for the developing world, while also studying the impact of existing Professor Kelly Chibale and his Drug Discovery technology. Scholars and postgraduate students and Development Centre (H3-D), based in the – from Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Uganda – Department of Chemistry, have started a number explore the application of ICT4D in a host of of international collaborations in the field of drug fields, from education and health care to economic discovery. Not least among these is the centre’s development. partnership with pharmaceutical giant Novartis, through the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Scholars from the Department of Physics are Research. The partnership was successfully launched among researchers from around the world who in 2012. That same year, the first compound have partnered with the prestigious European developed by H3-D was approved by the Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), which international Medicines for Malaria Venture as a pre- houses the world’s most state-of-the-art particle clinical anti-malarial candidate. accelerators and detectors. Dr Andrew Hamilton and colleagues take their postgraduate students for The UCT Centre for ICT4D (Information and months-long stays at CERN, where the students can Communication Technologies for Development), ‘learn and experience science at a truly international a research group in the Department of Computer scale’. Cesareo Dominguez, Emeritus Professor Science, is described as a ‘focal point for those of Theoretical Physics at UCT, was part of several researchers who wish to create ICT appropriate international research collaborations, working with to the needs of the developing world’. From this colleagues from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Italy and multidisciplinary centre, researchers endeavour Mexico, among others.

FACULTIES 75 commerce

In support of the internationalisation policy of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Faculty of Commerce recognises that a commitment to internationalisation has implications for all aspects of academic delivery, including the broader social context in which that occurs.

The number he faculty therefore aims to ensure the following: of international T students in the > All decisions regarding international links, whether these are student exchanges, semester- undergraduate abroad programmes or research collaborations, programmes are guided by considerations of academic excellence and support the strategic goals of the increased from faculty and UCT. > In accordance with UCT’s Afropolitan drive, the focus on links with students and researchers from the African continent remains a strategic 51 priority, especially links involving South African in 2012 to Development Community (SADC) universities. > In developing international links, the faculty will remain committed to the integrity of its degree 98 offerings and to the best interests of its students, in in 2013 and will not pursue links that risk compromising these goals. > Where possible, the faculty’s collaborations with international institutions will endeavour to

International Undergraduate Student Enrolments in the Faculty of Commerce 2006–2012 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

527 511 489 473 541 543 599

International Postgraduate Student Enrolments in the Faculty of Commerce 2006–2012 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

158 175 193 222 218 307 281

76 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT provide opportunities for international exposure principle, exchanges involving postgraduate to students and staff who might otherwise not students will be best suited to semesterised have access to these opportunities. In the case of full-time programmes involving coursework. students in particular, those who are supported However, assessments as to the suitability of any by the faculty’s Education Development postgraduate exchange are best made by the Unit (EDU) are a priority for the faculty’s departments concerned. internationalisation strategy. > The faculty seeks to encourage bilateral or International Student Overview multilateral agreements with institutions outside South Africa when there are International student enrolment has been relatively demonstrable mutual benefits for all the stable in the past few years with a significant partners to the agreement. increase in 2012 at the undergraduate level.

Academic Staff Liaison UCT Students Sent on Exchange A key strategy is the formation of research teams The faculty sent 15 students on exchange programmes and partnerships. Research leaders are best situated in 2013. The faculty would like more undergraduate to assess the suitability of any partnerships with students to take advantage of reciprocal arrangements, international staff and institutions. Common research but its main constraints are affordability and working interests have frequently led to teaching, research within the parameters of the curriculum. and visiting fellowship opportunities. The faculty believes that this trend will continue, particularly International Visits, Conferences in light of the faculty’s strategic goals and the and Colloquia incentivisation of research partnerships by revising Academics and students continue to travel to the ad hominem and promotions criteria. conferences and meetings around the world. In 2013, the conferences attended included: Students The faculty seeks to establish and formalise long- > the Annual Conference of the Industrial term, targeted undergraduate relationships that both Marketing and Purchasing Group, hosted by meet its strategic goals and provide opportunities Georgia State University, United States of for EDU students insofar as this is possible. The America (USA) faculty considers its current procedures and > the 2013 Emerging Market Conference Board processes of reaching agreements on memoranda of (EMCB) Conference in Port Elizabeth understanding and approving credits as inefficient, > the Institute of Food Products Marketing Annual and seeks to formalise more stable relationships with Conference in Budapest, Hungary partner institutions. These processes will include > the Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer liaising with the EDU to keep a central database of Science Conference in Philadelphia, USA exchange opportunities; advertising the benefits and > the Global Business and Finance Research existence of these opportunities, in close liaison with Conference in Taipei, China, and the EDU, the Careers Office and the International > the Associated Marketing Society’s annual Academic Programmes Office (IAPO); and creating conference in Monterey, USA. mentorship services for the international students > Scholars also attended meetings in Australia, coming to the faculty as part of formal exchanges, Brazil, Italy, Iceland and Uruguay. in liaison with IAPO, the EDU and other relevant partners, among other things. International Linkages A number of international agreements were reached With regard to postgraduate students, the in 2013. The Department of Information Systems faculty believes that the suitability of any signed the Enterprise Systems Education for student exchange programme will depend Africa (ESEFA) contract. This is a three-year project on the student’s course of study. As a general that aims to develop an Enterprise Systems (ES)

FACULTIES 77 curriculum and community for sub-Saharan Africa in programme, students have the opportunity to learn partnership with the Otto-von-Guericke University together with students from other degree-awarding Magdeburg in Germany and the SAP University universities in Africa, both at UCT and at a Joint Alliances programme. The project is co-financed Facility for Electives in Nairobi, Kenya. by the German Investment Corporation (DEG), with public funds from the German Ministry for The School of Economics has also received funding Economic Cooperation and Development, and the from the Carnegie Corporation to support individuals multinational software company SAP. who register as postdoctoral research fellows and who may consider pursuing a career in academia in The Department of Information Systems also Africa. The intention is to develop a cohort of trainee reached a South Africa–Tanzania Research academics and thereby contribute to growing the Agreement, funded by the National Research next generation of academics in order to strengthen Foundation. This agreement will involve a study higher education in Africa. Associate Professor Craig exploring the role of Information Technology (IT) West spent one month at Tilburg University in the in empowering women in rural areas. Tanzania’s Netherlands as part of an international staff exchange, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences with funding granted by the European Union will serve as the study partner. Seventh Framework Programme. This visit facilitated dedicated research time and collaboration with The Research Unit on Behavioural Economics and colleagues at Tilburg University. Neuroeconomics (RUBEN) signed a MoU with Georgia State University. The agreement is a broad The Applied International Trade Bargaining arrangement to co-supervise doctoral students programme has become a firm favourite with whose theses will be based on collaborative research semester-abroad students since its launch in 2000. projects. It also creates agreed parameters for later The course, the first of its kind at its founding, takes efforts to develop and seek approval for a co- the form of a simulated bargaining session of the branded doctoral structure. World Trade Organisation (WTO). International and local students simulate a WTO session, with Visiting Scholars the goal of serving the interests of the countries Among the visitors to the faculty were Associate they represent. Student representation is truly Professor Hope Schau of the University of Arizona, international, and includes students from South USA; Professor Kweku Osei-Bryson of the Virginia Africa, the rest of Africa, Europe and North America. Commonwealth University, USA, as part of the Students play the role of international trade faculty’s academic review; Markus Seiler and Eline diplomats. During the course of their negotiations, Huisman from Vienna; and Frederik Zimmer from the students make and break promises, negotiate Oslo, Norway. bilateral side treaties and use their web presence to build networks. According to Professor Don Ross, Internationalisation Highlights the programme founder, the course is a highlight in The PhD programme in Economics has continued the academic calendar, as the majority of students to benefit from the collaboration with the African are able to represent developing countries, despite Economic Research Consortium (AERC). This coming from first world countries. The programme programme combines the traditional PhD structure in also provides UCT’s international students with a the School of Economics and a partnership with other platform from which to explore the similarities and universities in Africa. It offers rigorous and competitive differences between countries, their goals and their training, leading to the award of a doctoral degree in stages of development. economics at the University of Cape Town. During the

78 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (gsb)

Rated as the Best Business School in Africa by its global peers at the Eduniversal World Convention in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Graduate School of Business (GSB) is committed to building an international reputation. The GSB’s efforts have paid off, and today the GSB is considered to be among the top business schools in the world, as evidenced by numerous accolades, ratings and accreditations.

ith a recent string of accolades – including the Triple Crown international Waccreditation – international interest continues to grow, as the GSB provides essential expertise in emerging markets. In response to this growth in its international standing, the GSB has opened an International Relations Office, designed to provide a full range of services for all The GSB is now international affairs. listed among the International Accreditations

In 2011, the GSB embarked on a process to earn 59 accreditations from the top three associations in business schools the world, the so-called Triple Crown. The top world-wide to have three associations comprising the Triple Crown are achieved the AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) AMBA and EQUIS and the European Quality Improvement System accreditations (EQUIS). The GSB is now listed among the 59 business schools world-wide to have achieved these accreditations.

International Faculty

The GSB has 41 core faculty members. Many of these are internationally acclaimed researchers and teachers, and they spend several months abroad

FACULTIES 79 collaborating with partner schools. These faculty classes. In 2013 alone, the GSB hosted 32 exchange members are dedicated and gifted individuals students from its global partners. who contribute directly to the GSB’s reputation for excellence. The faculty is supplemented by more The students hailed from the London Business than 70 visiting academics and executives from all School, the University of Chicago Graduate School over the world, whose input and experience add to of Business, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the the wealth of expertise and depth of knowledge that Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern is available to the school’s students. University, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. The school also International Partners sent 25 MBA students on exchange. Among the partners to have agreed to exchanges in 2014 are In 2013, the GSB set up the South African chapter Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of of the Network for Business Sustainability, which was Management, the ESADE Business School in Spain, started in Canada five years ago in close partnership and Cranfield University in the United Kingdom (UK). with Canadian colleagues. The GSB has signed Thirty-one GSB students are scheduled to travel memoranda of understanding (MOU) with 33 top overseas in 2014. business schools around the world. These include the London Business School, the University of Chicago Internationalisation Highlights Graduate School of Business, New York University’s Stern School of Business, the Fuqua School of The GSB hosted the Business of Social and Business at Duke University, and the UCLA Anderson Environmental Innovation (BSEI) conference for the School of Management. In 2013 it also became part second consecutive year in 2013. In this year the of the Global Network for Advanced Management BSEI conference gained increased prominence, and (GNAM), a consortium of leading business schools was oversubscribed well before the registration led by Yale University, which facilitates, among other deadline. Keynote speakers included Trevor Manuel, things, short student exchanges. Minister in the Presidency and Chair of the National Development Commission. More recently, MOUs include arrangements with the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University The director of the GSB, Walter Baets, has been in Beijing, China, and with the Indian Institute of elected as the next chairperson of the Association Management in Ahmedabad, India. of African Business Schools (AABS). AABS is a network of African business schools, formally Exchanges established in October 2005. Through capacity building, collaboration, and quality improvement The GSB’s exchange programme enables students programmes for Deans or Directors and faculty to spend a semester at an international university from African business schools, AABS aims to to gain more experience. The GSB has exchange help build effective business schools to improve agreements with 33 schools across the globe. In management education in Africa and thus enhance return, the school accepts exchange students from the relevance and contribution of business schools its partner schools, adding an international flavour to to African development.

80 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT faculty OF law

The Faculty of Law places a high premium on internationalisation, both with regard to Africa and the rest of the world. The faculty encourages the mobility of staff and students abroad, welcomes foreign students and academics to participate in local courses and research initiatives, and seeks to foster collaborations with international institutions (at staff, centre and faculty level). These initiatives take place formally, through faculty-level agreements concluded with international universities, and informally, through initiatives undertaken by its research units, centres and staff.

he faculty values these formal and informal initiatives equally. In the formal Tarena, the faculty promotes two forms of agreements. The first are general academic collaboration agreements, which provide the space and opportunity for partner institutions to explore, develop and nurture collaborative The Faculty research projects that impose no direct economic obligations on the faculty. The second are of Law hosted student and staff exchange agreements, which commit partner institutions to tangible exchange initiatives with economic obligations in the form of reciprocal fee waiver arrangements and/or 40 the provision of stipends and financial support to Semester Abroad incoming staff and students. Students in 2013. The faculty recognises that the success of academic collaboration agreements is dependent on individual academics, working in similar substantive areas, who are willing to drive the collaborative process at their respective universities. With student and staff exchanges, the faculty seeks to promote internal and external equity, and in this way to encourage partner institutions from higher income countries to provide

FACULTIES 81 support for outgoing students and staff. The faculty to present short courses and undertake short is currently party to ten exchange agreements and research visits to the University of Maryland (USA), 13 academic collaboration agreements. the University of Florida (USA), Queen’s University (Canada), and the University of Dar es Salaam Recognising that internationalisation has to be (Tanzania). These exchanges reflect only a small cost effective, and facing university budget cuts, proportion of staff mobility. A larger proportion the faculty aims to be more strategic when making of academics arranged outgoing and incoming decisions about renewing existing agreements research exchanges and short research trips and concluding new student and staff exchange individually or through partnerships and networks agreements in particular. To guide these decisions, formed at the departmental, research unit or in 2013 the faculty developed pro forma faculty individual level. exchange and collaboration agreements to promote clarity and consistency in the conclusion of future International Visits, Conferences agreements, as well as a set of faculty criteria to and Colloquia determine the desirability and viability of additional agreements. The faculty is currently developing During the past year the faculty’s departments a process for proposing and sanctioning the and research groupings have hosted many foreign conclusion of additional faculty-level agreements. academics, and many local academics have in turn The internationalisation portfolio is driven by the participated in countless international conferences, faculty’s Director of Internationalisation, working workshops and projects. This provides evidence of together with its Internationalisation and Outreach the faculty’s standing as a significant focal point for Committee. global, regional and local research initiatives.

The faculty seeks to pursue internationalisation One significant faculty-led event was the inaugural with an Afropolitan niche, and in recent years Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference, held in late has concluded formal academic collaboration March 2013. This conference brought together 35 agreements with the University of Nigeria, the law deans from Africa and China’s leading law schools University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), the University to deliberate on the reform of Sino-African legal of Hargeisa (Somalia), the University of Jos (Nigeria), education, to discuss new mechanisms for cultivating the Faculty of Law of Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), and the legal talent in the era of globalisation, and to explore University of Rwanda. possible student and staff exchanges and cooperation strategies between African and Chinese law schools. Operating principally through its research units and One particular aim of the conference was to serve centres, the faculty has undertaken a diverse array as a first step towards further collaboration and the of collaborative research initiatives and projects conference resulted in several tangible outcomes. with African partners in the past year. These have The results included the signing of a Declaration of been in the areas of customary law, comparative Intent by all participants to promote several forms of law in Africa, criminal justice, labour law, land collaboration in the next few years, an offer from the law, environmental law, traditional leadership, Renmin University of China Law School to host the constitutional law, governance, intellectual property second Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference in 2015, law and refugee law, to name but a few. The and the discussion of several exchange opportunities research units and centres frequently initiate these between individual law schools in certain substantive collaborative projects and programmes. areas of law.

Staff Exchanges and Networking Visiting Scholars

The faculty sent four staff members on exchange in The faculty received many formal and informal 2013 through its formal staff exchange agreements. visits from international scholars in 2013. Formal These academic staff members had the opportunity visits included delegations from Stockholm

82 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT University (Sweden), Osgoode University (Canada), several additional universities to explore possible Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), future formal collaborations. These universities the University of Maryland (USA), Humboldt included the University of Lagos (Nigeria), the University (Germany), the University of Dar es University of New South Wales (Australia), the Salaam (Tanzania), Radboud University Nijmegen University of Bergen (Norway), Humboldt University (Netherlands) and EBS University (Germany). The (Germany), Osgoode University (Canada) and purposes of these visits included fact-finding Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). missions, meetings to renegotiate the terms of existing agreements, initiatives to foster greater Student Opportunities collaboration in terms of existing agreements, and benchmarking exercises, with some universities The faculty continues to attract senior students seeking to establish internationalisation portfolios from abroad. In 2013, nine foreign students visited in their faculties of law. The faculty also hosted the faculty in terms of its formal student exchange a delegation from the Nigerian Federal High agreements with foreign universities. In addition, Court (seeking vocational training in the area of the faculty hosted 40 Semester Abroad Students maritime law and international law of the sea) and in 2013. In the same year, the faculty sent seven a delegation of Australian UCT alumni (to discuss local students on exchange to universities in funding opportunities for UCT students on exchange Europe and the USA for either a semester or a full to Australian universities). The above-mentioned academic year. The faculty has also nominated a visits exclude the numerous visits by foreign scholars further ten students for exchange in 2014, in terms arranged by the faculty’s departments and research of existing student exchange agreements. The units, which are simply too numerous to list here. increase in the uptake of exchange opportunities by local students appears to be the result of International Linkages reforms introduced in the last year to alter nomination criteria (with a view to promoting In addition to individual, unit-level and departmental efficiency, equity and transparency) and to raise agreements and collaborations, the faculty currently foreign financial support for students going has academic collaboration agreements with several abroad on exchange. In addition to the above universities in Africa, Europe, India and Japan, as faculty-driven student exchange opportunities, well as student and staff exchange agreements many additional student mobility opportunities with institutions in Australia, the USA and Europe. were initiated by the faculty’s departments and In 2013, the faculty entered into discussions with research units.

FACULTIES 83 Student Exchange Highlights seeking to map customary law in Somaliland (with the University of Hargeisa), to consider issues of land Several of the faculty’s PhD students have also tenure from a range of legal traditions in Eritrea, benefited from opportunities to travel and study and, through its Mineral Law in Africa Project, to abroad. Benson Olugbuo, a PhD student in the scope and develop academic commentary on Department of Public Law, won a Fox International comparative mining and mineral laws in Africa (with Fellowship to visit the Macmillan Centre at Yale. the University of Botswana, the University of Namibia Moliehi Shale, a PhD student in the Centre of and the University of Zambia). Criminology, was one of 16 fellows selected in the 2012/13 cohort for the International Climate The Centre of Criminology, in association with Protection Fellowships of the Alexander von Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (USA), hosted Humboldt Foundation; she was thus given the a Workshop in Research Methods and Design opportunity to undertake research at the Freie in July 2013. Attended by a mix of academics, Universität of Berlin. Tairo Mutongwizo, a PhD postgraduate students, parliamentary officials and student also based in the Centre of Criminology, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from both received sponsorship from the IDRC to attend the jurisdictions, the workshop sought to identify key University for Peace / IDRC Research Methodology issues that shape criminology and criminal justice Workshop held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in June research programmes. The centre also hosted several 2013. Concetta Lorizzo, a PhD student with the interns from the African Leadership Centre (Kenya) Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA), and King’s College London (United Kingdom) for six- spent three months at the University of Lisbon, month periods, during which they undertook research conducting research under the aegis of the faculty’s in the area of peace, security and justice. collaboration agreement with that university. The Centre for Law and Society (CLS) co-hosted Faculty Highlights the ‘Land Divided’ conference in March 2013. This international conference was arranged to coincide There were several internationalisation highlights for with the centenary of the 1913 Native Land Act the faculty in 2013. As has been mentioned above, and brought together scholars from over 43 the most significant faculty-led initiative was the international universities, including the University of hosting of the inaugural Sino-African Law Deans’ Oxford, Harvard University, the School of Oriental Conference at UCT in late March 2013. This was but and African Studies (University of London), and the tip of the iceberg, with the faculty’s departments, the London School of Economics and Political research units and individual academics contributing Science. Over four days, these international scholars, significantly to the faculty’s drive to promote together with their regional and local counterparts, internationalisation both abroad and at home. While considered the state of land and South African the faculty values all these contributions equally, it society in 2013 from a comparative perspective. The is unfortunately impossible to describe them all in past year has also seen a myriad of foreign visitors this brief synopsis. Therefore, mentioned below are to the CLS and visits from CLS members to foreign a few illustrations of significant initiatives undertaken institutions, to participate in several workshops in 2013 by the faculty’s research units in particular. and seminars on issues relating to communal land, traditional leadership and women’s land rights. The Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA) hosted 40 participants at the inaugural Methodology The Democratic Governance and Rights Unit Workshop on Comparative Law in Africa, designed (DGRU), which serves as the secretariat for to promote the dissemination of knowledge, and the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers the study and teaching of comparative law in Africa (ANCL), continued with its work to support the – a challenging task that requires work across legal African judiciary in 2013. In early 2013, the DGRU traditions and frameworks. In addition, in partnership hosted a Judicial Forum for over 20 judges from with other institutions in Africa, the CCLA is currently South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho. This was

84 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT followed by a second forum held in October Dynamics in Africa, and Knowledge and Innovation in 2013, which was attended by 20 SADC judges Africa: Scenarios for the Future. In addition, the IP Unit and resulted in all present expressly committing continued its work as the centre of two of the largest to sustaining an ongoing SADC judges’ support IP networks on the African continent, namely the programme. In addition, the DGRU presented a Open A.I.R. (African Innovation Research) network and commissioned report on the status of the rule of Creative Commons Africa. law and constitutionalism in Africa to a high-level meeting of the African Union in Dakar (Senegal) in Last but not least, the Refugee Rights Unit hosted November 2013. the Expert Roundtable on the International Protection of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflict and The Institute of Development and Labour Law Other Situations of Violence, an initiative of the (IDLL) assisted Prof Simon Deakin of Cambridge United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. University with a project on Labour Law and Poverty The roundtable was organised as part of a broader Alleviation in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. project to develop ‘Guidelines on International The project is jointly funded by the UK’s Economic Protection’ and to clarify the interpretation and and Social Research Council and the Department for application of international and regional refugee International Development. Furthermore, members law instruments to persons fleeing armed conflict of the IDLL collaborated on several publications and other situations of violence across international emanating from partnerships formed through the borders. The 30 participants included experts from Capturing the Gain (CtG) International Research 15 countries, drawn from governments, NGOs, Programme, and have embarked on a project academia, the judiciary, the legal profession and looking at wage-setting mechanisms, wages and international organisations. productivity in the clothing sector in South Africa, which forms part of a broader project commissioned Alumni Highlights by the International Labour Organisation. A law degree from UCT can open doors to many The Institute of Marine and Environmental Law (IMEL), opportunities overseas, as these graduates have together with the Marine Research Institute (MA-Re) found. Zimbabwean Pamhidzai Bamu (LLB, LLM and Interpol’s Project Scale, hosted a Fisheries Crime and PhD) has availed herself of a number of Symposium at UCT in July 2013. This symposium opportunities following the completion of her brought together international, regional and domestic doctoral studies at UCT in 2011. She is currently experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities for doing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch improving fisheries compliance and enforcement. IMEL University. In October 2013, she was one of also hosted 15 judges from the Federal High Court ten scholars selected for a Harvard-Stanford of Nigeria for a vocational visit in August 2013. The International Junior Faculty Forum, where she judges, whose judicial purview extends to determining presented her paper entitled ‘I take goods marine disputes, attended a series of workshops on across the border for a living’: An analysis of South Africa state practice relating to international Zimbabwe’s informal cross-border traders and maritime boundaries and admiralty jurisdiction. cross-border couriers.

The Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research Zimbabwean Shingi Masanzu completed her LLB Unit (IP Unit) hosted the Third Global Congress on at UCT in 2008, graduating magna cum laude and Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, considered in the top two per cent of her class. Masanzu was one of the key international conferences on intellectual placed on the Dean’s Merit List for every year of property. Nearly 300 academics, advocates, lawyers her law degree and went to New York University and government officials from 47 countries took part in in the USA, where she completed her LLM as a the gathering. The conference also featured the launch Hauser Global Scholar in 2013. She has since moved of the IP Unit’s two new books on intellectual property to Washington DC, working in the Legal Vice- – Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Presidency of the World Bank.

FACULTIES 85 ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The internationalisation strategy of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (EBE) is informed by its vision of becoming the faculty of choice for engineering and the built environment students, as well as for staff located nationally and internationally.

BE serves as a research-intensive faculty, which strives to create, advance and Edisseminate knowledge, as well as to develop outstanding graduates and scholars. Within this framework, one of the six key performance areas of the faculty’s strategy involves engaging with Africa’s development challenges.

By 2013, students from 49 countries were registered At undergraduate in the faculty, including 37 study-abroad students. level, The faculty’s internationalisation initiatives include a series of programmes that not only seek to attract students and staff from across the world, but also seek to prepare the faculty’s students for work on the 18% most topical issues in a globalised world. of our students are international The faculty’s academics enjoy widespread international research links with scholars and students, and at institutions in the Global North, and are slowly but postgraduate level, surely establishing similar networks in the South and about in Africa, specifically. Understandably, the focus on the continent is more on capacity development. The African Centre for Cities, the African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-Motorised 26% Transport, and the faculty’s Minerals Research Group, are international among others, have strong Africa-wide research students. programmes and networks.

The faculty conducts capacity-building work; for example, the Planning Education in Africa project

86 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT has developed a new Master’s curriculum for the number of AAPS member schools. In 2013, studios were University of Zambia. run in Dar es Salaam and Namibia, and a workshop on collaborative studies was held in Cape Town. Staff and Students All the ACC programmes are relevant to urban The faculty continues to attract a large number of Africa and cities in the Global South, and focus on international students from across the world. At intellectual, paradigmatic and policy interventions. undergraduate level, 18 per cent of our students are In 2012 the ACC actively distributed its Cityscapes international students, and at postgraduate level, magazine in Africa. The ACC also aggressively about 26 per cent are international students. The pursued the building out of its UrbanAfrica.net staff component has a mix of academics from Africa digital portal, which serves as a clearing house for and the rest of the world. contemporary urban knowledge and provides an interface for exchanging knowledge between urban Departmental Initiatives practitioners and academics. Writers from several and Highlights African cities were commissioned to file regular reports on urban events in African cities. School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics The ACC is developing extensive contacts with The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS), academic institutions across the continent. Via AAPS, based in the African Centre for Cities (ACC), is the ACC is networked to 51 institutions; via its State working with the University of Zambia to pilot a new of Cities in Africa (SOCA) project, the ACC is linked Urban and Regional Planning Master’s programme to a further five universities (Accra, Addis Ababa, that commenced in October 2013. Staff members Botswana, Dar es Salaam, Lilongwe); and via the and colleagues from the University of Zambia have Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) project, it is linked to collaborated on areas of study and course outlines. two universities in Kisumu, Kenya.

Part of AAPS’s work is running joint studio-teaching The ACC’s research networks across the rest of the modules with Slum Dwellers International (SDI) at a world are extensive. They have led to jointly written

FACULTIES 87 academic papers, the compilation of two edited around the world. Ten students and a lecturer from books, conference and workshop participation, and Germany visited UCT. cross-funding. The Landscape Architecture programme is The Architecture division of the school is a formalising a visit by respected landscape architect member of the ArchiAfrika Educational Network, Associate Professor Thaisa Way of the University of a partnership of architecture schools across the Virginia, in 2014. continent. This network aims to develop excellence among the next generation of professionals in the Department of Chemical Engineering African built environment. This network holds great The Department of Chemical Engineering has no potential for future collaborations, as well as for staff specific collaboration arrangements with African and student exchanges. institutions. A number of its faculty members, however, are involved in student and staff exchanges The Geomatics division of the school is highly active with universities from elsewhere in Africa. in teaching, and in conducting research relevant to Africa. A number of international undergraduate In 2014, the Department of Chemical Engineering students bring diversity into the classroom. The will launch a new Master’s Programme in principles and practice of Geomatics are relevant Education for Sustainable Development in Mining to the African context and developmental needs. and Processing. The programme will be run in At Master’s and doctoral levels, most students in partnership with a number of African and Japanese Geomatics come from countries outside South Africa universities, including the United Nations University and many are involved in research relevant to their in Tokyo and the University of Zambia in Lusaka. home contexts. The Minerals to Metals Initiative is a major partner The well-known Zamani Project under Emeritus in the Global Minerals Industry Risk Management Professor Heinz Rüther is a key area of research Programme. This is a worldwide programme that on heritage documentation for Africa. There has trains mining company executives and managers in been recent collaboration with the International safety risk management, with the aim of reducing Federation of Surveyors (FIG) African Task Force, accidents and fatalities on mines and in mineral which included participating in workshops and processing operations. hosting a workshop in Cape Town. Geomatics staff have also had the opportunity to visit universities Department of Civil Engineering in Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and This department has a number of academic staff Zimbabwe, with whom academic links have been from the rest of Africa, as well as postgraduate discussed. students, funded as Carnegie scholars. The department does not have official student Other noteworthy staff and student accolades exchanges with African countries, but a large include involvement in the International Federation cohort of its student body comes from a range of for Landscape Architects (IFLA) World Congress African countries. in Cape Town in 2012. This is the largest annual gathering of landscape architects internationally Most of the department’s staff members are actively and it featured paper presentations, workshops, and involved in research relevant to Africa. One such study tours. example is the African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-motorised Transport In May 2012, Landscape Architecture’s second-year (ACET), which is a collaboration between African design studio collaborated with students from the universities to facilitate related research in Africa. International Master’s of Landscape Architecture ACET links the Centre for Transport Studies at Programme from Nürtingen-Geislingen University in UCT with the Department of Transportation and Germany. This programme includes students from Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Dar

88 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT es Salaam, Tanzania; the Institute for Development under the Cycling Academic Network to collaborate Studies at the University of Nairobi; and two other on cycling research and joint doctoral student universities in Kenya. supervision. The centre also regularly hosts three scholars from Europe and the United States of The Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity America (USA) to assist with course delivery in its Research Unit (CoMSIRU) is involved in developing postgraduate programme. research capacity development at Masters and doctoral levels for academic staff at the Kigali The Information for Community Oriented Institute of Technology, Rwanda; the University Municipal Services (iCOMMS) research group of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and the University of in the department has completed studies in Nairobi, Kenya. The Urban Water Management Mozambique, Cambodia and Vietnam. The group’s research unit is a member of a consortium focus is on the delivery of basic amenities – such comprising eight universities. A number of as water and health care – and public services universities from Africa are led by UNESCO-IHE in to rural communities in developing countries. Delft, the Netherlands. This programme looks at The group is specifically focused on tapping into stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the the growing potential of mobile technologies. urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East A number of iCOMMS projects are inspired by Asia. This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda the group’s students, many of whom hail from Gates Foundation. elsewhere in Africa.

The Centre for Transport Studies engages with CoMSIRU staff have actively participated in research universities from the Netherlands, Brazil and India with a number of institutions abroad. These include

FACULTIES 89 the University of Hanover, Germany; the Technion Department of Electrical Engineering Haifa, Israel; EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland; the The department’s scholars form part of numerous University of British Columbia, Canada and the research collaborations. Among these is the University of Toronto, Canada, among others. CSIR–UCT–East Coast Access (ECA) Consortium, which undertook the research, development Department of Construction Economics and commercialisation of the ARTIST Project, and Management an advanced video streaming technology for All research activities within this department relate, low-bandwidth areas, predominantly situated in to a greater or lesser degree, to Africa. A case in developing countries. point is the research project concerning the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the South African To address the growing need for skilled engineers construction industry with relation HIV/AIDS in and scientists in the field of radar and electronic sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, research into property defence, the faculty partnered with the Council of valuation specifically focuses on the South African or Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) to establish African context. a Master’s degree in this field. International collaborators include the King Abdulaziz City for The department’s staff complement of 12 also Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, which co- reflects internationalisation. Two staff members are funds the programme. from the rest of Africa – one from Nigeria and one from Zambia. One of the part-time lecturers hails Department of Mechanical Engineering from Nigeria. Associate Professor Viruly is President The department has established exchanges with the of the African Real Estate Society, and is engaged in rest of Africa through the work done by its Energy promoting research links and collaborative research Research Centre (ERC). With funding from Sweden, with sub-Saharan African institutions. exchanges have been able to reach into Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique and Rwanda. The department has been part of a student exchange agreement with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, The Aeronautical Research Group has a since 2010. This exchange is open to students from longstanding partnership with AIRBUS, the aircraft the MSc Project Management and MSc Property manufacturing division of the Airbus Group Studies programmes, as well as to MPhil students. A (formerly European Aeronautic Defence and Space six-week German language course is held twice a year Company), based in France. Four students from as part of the exchange agreement. the group have developed a new technology for fuel sloshing loads. In addition, ASTRIUM, Europe’s The department has also entered into a highest ranked space company, has engaged with memorandum of agreement to establish formal links the group on the generation of rocket and satellite with the University of Salford, United Kingdom, with launch technology. the intention to facilitate staff and student interaction and research collaboration. Both institutions will Other research partners include the Graz University encourage direct contact and cooperation between of Technology, Austria; the Vienna University of their faculty and administrative staff. Technology; Cambridge University; Électricité de France (EDF); and the Brazilian government, via The department has also frequently hosted visitors. the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) A noteworthy visit was that of Dr Peter Edwards of programme, which is part of the ERC. The ERC’s the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Energy, Poverty and Development group is also in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Edwards lectures on the an affiliate of the Global Network for Sustainable department’s postgraduate module dealing with risk Energy for Development, facilitated by the United management, and undertakes collaborative research Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Through with department scholars, including Professor Paul this network, the group is able to participate in a Bowen, who is a visiting professor to RMIT. strong international network of research centres.

90 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT (CHED)

The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) engages with internationalisation as a cross-faculty unit that contributes to continual improvement in the quality of higher education.

ome of its internationalisation activities have developed as a result of external Sdrivers, such as donor-funded strategic priorities. Others have resulted from internal developments, such as the demands on the Careers Service Unit to attend more appropriately to the needs of international students. These activities have been rich The number opportunities for collaboration and learning.

of international Visitors

students in the The various units in CHED continue to attract regular undergraduate visitors and collaborators. Over the past year, these units have hosted guests from organisations and programmes institutions that include: increased from > Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) > the Apereo Foundation, the United States-based 51 producer of open-source software in 2012 to > the Biggio Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Auburn University, USA > the Carnegie Corporation > the University of Oulu, Finland 98 > King’s College, London in in 2013 > Stockholm University, Sweden > the University of Rochester, USA, and > the University of Sydney, Australia.

FACULTIES 91 International Linkages Development Research Centre, which looks at how open educational resources can address A key recommendation from a 2011 review the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, conducted by the International Academic high-quality and affordable tertiary education in Programmes Office (IAPO) was that the Careers the Global South. Other countries included in Service should identify targeted employment the project are Ghana, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia, opportunities for international students at the Chile, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mongolia. University of Cape Town (UCT) in their countries of UCT joined the universities of Botswana, Mauritius origin. To this end, the Careers Service travelled and Namibia for the ‘Scholarly Communication in to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to meet with Africa Programme’ (SCAP), a three-year research potential employers, alumni and UCT partners. A and implementation initiative aimed at increasing trip to the South African Development Community the production, publication and visibility of African (SADC) countries was also planned for 2014. In research through open and digital scholarly 2013, the Careers Service launched a new series communication practices. of publications entitled Grad Africa: Graduate Opportunities in Africa, a series of handbooks that The ‘OpenUCT Initiative’, a programme managed by aim to introduce and explore opportunities within CILT, aims to share and profile UCT scholarship both these burgeoning markets. In addition, the unit within and beyond the institution. The programme, organised a follow-up seminar entitled ‘Job Search funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, builds Beyond Borders’. on the work of a number of ‘open-focused’ research and implementation initiatives that have taken In 2013, the director of the Careers Service made place, over a decade, in CHED. In line with UCT’s a presentation on the topic ‘Are South African Afropolitan agenda, the open content produced and graduates ready for work?’ at the annual conference shared through the work of the ‘OpenUCT’ Initiative of Inyathelo, or the South African Institute for and other projects has made UCT a significant Advancement. A keynote presentation was also contributor to knowledge-sharing and educational made at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom development on the continent. (UK), for the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service (AGCAS) biennial conference. In 2014, the School of Education, in conjunction with The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching CILT, launched a new one-year Postgraduate Diploma (CILT), formerly the Centre for Educational in Educational Technology, which complements Technology, organised and ran ‘e/merge 2012 – the Master’s Programme in ICTS for Education. The Open to Change’, the fourth virtual conference on programme focuses on emerging technologies educational technology in Africa, as well as a series and their role in teaching 21st century learners. As of follow-up events. These events included an online a result of support from the Carnegie and Mellon seminar in 2013 and the release of the e/merge Foundations, competitive scholarships are available Africa Report. to students from Africa. This diploma programme is an extension of a Mellon Foundation grant that has CILT received a grant of US$1.4 million from the helped over 40 students from 12 African countries to Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the undertake postgraduate studies in information and introduction of a new Postgraduate Diploma in communication technologies in higher education. Educational Technology and the development of an African eLearning Network. Seventeen places were CILT believes in cultures of open sharing and offered for the inaugural running of the programme collaboration, including active engagement in in 2014. professional networks. As a unit, CILT is committed to sharing its work and practices to support the CILT is convening ‘Research on Open Educational development of the educational technology Resources for Development’ (ROER4D), a three- profession in South Africa and across Africa. This has year project funded by Canada’s International been achieved through:

92 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT > building an Africa-wide e-learning network, especially in Africa > contributing expertise and leadership through presentations, consulting and teaching > contributing software to higher education open source projects > contributing research and disseminating research in new ways, for example, through blogs COL until the end of 2013 by special arrangement > enabling UCT academics to share open to international student groups. In 2014, these teaching and learning resources through UCT programmes were moved to a new administrative OpenContent, using Creative Commons licences, centre in IAPO. and > promoting open academic practices. Examples of the International Island programme courses and thematic focus areas include: The Centre for Open Learning (COL) contributes to internationalisation in a number of ways. The > Insights into South African history, aimed at UCT Summer School attracts thousands of students history students and enthusiasts each year, many from outside South Africa. COL is > The politics of South Africa working with the Heritage Society in the Department > Environmental-management approaches to of Alumni and Development to discuss ways in which environmental challenges in South Africa international alumni can benefit from this annual > Addressing social and development-related programme. The London School of Economics questions in a democratic South Africa (LSE) and Political Studies/UCT annual July School > Insights into and issues related to the South was launched in 2013. Lecturers from LSE and UCT African economy teach this course, which attracts students from UCT > The challenges of HIV/AIDS in Africa and across the world. Lastly, customised, short > Health and development in the South International Island programmes were offered by African context

FACULTIES 93 contacts

International Academic Faculty of Humanities Programmes Office Beattie Building, Upper Campus Main Office - Level 3, Masingene Building, Phone: 021 650 3059 Middle Campus Fax: 021 686 9840 IAPO Mobility Centre - Ivan Toms Building, Matopo E-mail: [email protected] Road, Mowbray Website: www.humanities.uct.ac.za Phone: 021 650 2822 / 3740 Fax: 021 650 5667 Faculty of Law E-mail: [email protected] Wilfred and Jules Kramer Building, Cross Campus IAPO Website: www.iapo.uct.ac.za Road, Middle Campus Facebook: IAPO @ UCT Phone: 021 650 3086 Twitter: @IAPOatUCT Fax: 021 650 5608 Confucius Website: www.confucius.uct.ac.za E-mail: [email protected] Confucius Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Website: www.law.uct.ac.za uctconfucius Confucius Twitter: @ConfuciusUCT Faculty of Science Level 6 PD Hahn Building, North Lane, Upper Faculty of Commerce Campus Leslie Commerce Building, Engineering Mall, Phone: 021 650 2712 Upper Campus Fax: 021 650 2710 Phone: 021 650 4375/5748 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 021 650 4369 Website: www.science.uct.ac.za E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.commerce.uct.ac.za Graduate School of Business (GSB) 8 Portswood Road, V & A Waterfront Faculty of Engineering and Phone: 021 406 1911 the Built Environment Fax: 021 406 1070 5th Level, New Engineering Building, Madiba Circle, E-mail: [email protected] Upper Campus Website: www.gsb.uct.ac.za Phone: 021 650 2699 Fax: 021 650 3782 Admissions Office E-mail: [email protected] Level 4, Masingene Building, Cross Campus Road, Website: www.ebe.uct.ac.za Middle Campus Phone: 021 650 2128 Faculty of HEALTH SCIENCES Fax: 021 650 3736 Location: Barnard Fuller Building, Anzio Road, E-mail: [email protected] Observatory Phone Enquiries: 021 406 6346 RESEARCH Office Fax: 021 447 8955 Location: Allan Cormack House, 2 Rhodes Avenue, E-mail (undergraduate admissions): fhs-ug-admiss@ Mowbray uct.ac.za Phone: 021 650 5440 Website: www.health.uct.ac.za Fax: 021 650 5768 Email: [email protected] Website: www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za

94 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT international academic programmes office – staff members

Name Section Position name

Prof Evance Kalula Directorate Director: Internationalisation

Ms Felicity Mashodi Directorate PA to Director

Mr Jerome September Directorate Advisor: Special Projects

Ms Kimi Keith Systems, Communication Manager: & Information Systems, Communication & Information

Mr Marquin Swartland Systems, Communication Front Office Liaison & Information

Mrs Benita Fisher Systems, Communication Front Office Liaison & Information

Mr Tanwier Hendricks Systems, Communication Front Office Assistant & Information

Mrs Theresa Tallack Systems, Communication International Visits Administrator & Information

Ms Carol Ojwang African Partnerships and Manager: African Partnerships and Study Study Programmes Programmes

Mr Moses Pieterse African Partnerships and Study Coordinator: International Full Degree Programmes Students

Ms Nosizwe Mgudlwa African Partnerships and International Student Advisor Study Programmes

Mrs Cornelia Williams African Partnerships and International Student Study Programmes Administrator

Mrs Norma Derby African Partnerships and Programme Officer Study Programmes

Mr Patrick Mkoba African Partnerships and Co-ordinator MasterCard Foundation Study Programmes Scholars Program

Ms Insaaf Isaacs African Partnerships and Recruitment and Peer Mentor Study Programmes Officer: MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Mr Riyaadh Fakier African Partnerships and Finance and Administration Study Programmes Officer: MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Mr Wayne Wagenaar Finance Manager: Finance

uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT 95 Name Section Position name

Mrs Sharon Eaton Barnes Finance Assistant Finance Manager

Ms Lindy Duncan Finance Finance Officer

Mr Simbulele Kotyi Finance Finance Officer

Mr Leon Petersen Finance Finance Officer

Mrs Galiema Darries Finance Finance Officer

Ms Lara Dunwell Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Manager: Mobility Partnerships & Programmes

Ms Penny van Zyl Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Co-ordinator: Student Life & Exchanges

Ms Stephanie van Heerden Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Exchange Officer

Mr Jody Felton Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Administrator: Housing

Ms Loren Joseph Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Administrator: Partnerships

Mrs Sharon Turner Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Coordinator: SSA Academic

Ms Melissa O’Shea Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mr Henry Williams Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mrs Erin Pienaar Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Mrs Sophia Carr Mobility Partnerships & Programmes Study Abroad Programme Officer

Prof Shengyong Qin Confucius Institute Chinese Director

Mrs Nicola Latchiah Short Term International Programmes Manager: Short Term International Programmes

Mr Jonathan Mitchell Short Term International Programmes Administrator

Mrs Yu Yang Confucius Institute Administrator

Mr Zhenyu Wang Confucius Institute Volunteer

96 uct iapo | INTERNATIONAL UCT UCT International Student Statistics 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014*

Total UCT students enrolled 19 315 19 943 20 480 21 356 21 454 21 419 22 608 24 012 25 013 25 352 26 277 26 330 26 321

Total UCT students (excl. SSA) 18 940 19 412 19 901 20 666 20 781 20 706 22 099 23 168 24 002 24 530 25 314 25 353 25 374

Total international students (excl. SSA) 2 414 3 013 3 329 3 727 4 764 4 458 4 750 3 464 3 600 3 771 3 929 3 776 3 735

% international students (excl. SSA) 13% 16% 17% 18% 17% 23% 21% 14% 14% 15% 16% 14% 14%

Number of countries represented 81 92 97 96 98 107 106 97 101 111 112 105 102 Number of African countries represented ? 30 29 31 38 36 30 31 35 42 37 42 37 Total SADC students 1 775 2 195 2 360 2 546 2 476 2 299 2 406 1 987 2 001 2 053 2 439 1 955 1 966 % SADC students at UCT 9% 11% 12% 12% 12% 11% 11% 8% 8% 8% 9% 7% 7% Total Non-SADC International students (excl. SSA)

639 818 976 1 181 2 288 2 158 2 344 1 478 1 604 1 364 1 470 1 821 1 769 Total Non-SADC International students from Africa

212 286 399 442 557 567 Total Study Abroad Students 561 629 620 648 707 739 724

375 531 579 690 673 874 Total International Students incl SSA/non-degree seekers 699 908 1 026 844 954 977 947

3 544 3 908 % All International student registrations at UCT 2 789 4 374 5 437 5 171 5 259 4 307 4 611 4 593 4 892 4 753 4 682

18% 19% Total international undergraduates 14% 20% 25% 24% 23% 18% 18% 18% 19% 18% 18%

Total international postgraduates 1 748 tbc 1 510 2 033 2 408 2 215 2 365 1 760 2 918 2 727 2 888 2 756 2541

1 265 tbc 904 1 467 1 651 1 519 1 565 1 631 1 693 1 866 2 004 1 997 2141

*Provisional data only Vision www.rothko.co.za “Empowering Internationalisation at UCT”.

Mission

“In the service of UCT's strategic goals IAPO aims to be the thought-leader, partner and first port of call on all matters pertaining to internationalisation for the global higher education community participating at UCT”.

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