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2012 completed a UJ Career Guidance Workbook for grade 11 and 12 learners. Our graduate recruitmentprogramme was also enhanced through career portals, the Thusanani Project and career fairs.The Office for People with Disabilities supported 232 students (2011: 194), and during 2012 established theConcessions Committee to promote fairness. Thirty-one UJ programmes have a formal work-integrated learning(WIL) component, and during 2012, the University successfully placed 3 735 students.The Staff Qualifications Programme, initially focused on enabling all permanent academic staff to hold at least amaster’s qualification, is now focused on raising the percentage of staff with a doctoral qualification. The successof this essential initiative is vital since it is important for our continuing efforts to nurture UJ as one of Africa’s finestinstitutions, and to sustain our achievements. The programme makes available a variety of support, includingsome research funding, an extensive and well-attended programme of research development workshops andwriting support, and some teaching relief during the writing up phase of the research.During 2012 participants’ progress was again carefully monitored, and thus far 40 staff members, or 39% of thecohort, had completed their master’s qualifications, while a further 17 had submitted their dissertations forassessment. This would result in 57% of the cohort having met their obligations to the University. A further 31staff members are expected to submit their dissertations for assessment by the end of 2013, potentially raisingthe total successful completions to 87 staff members or 85% of the cohort. Of the remaining staff required tosatisfy this requirement, incapacity hearings are presently being held for eight, a further two staff members arebeing relocated to the professional support category, and nine have, for various reasons, been permitted tocontinue their studies beyond 2013, however under close supervision and with reporting deadlines.Given the success of this master’s academic staff-support programme, and the importance of increasing theproportion of UJ staff who hold a doctoral qualification, a Doctoral Staff Qualifications Programme, in line withour 2020 vision and 2012 Institutional Scorecard targets (50% holding a doctoral qualification), was developedand has commenced. In this regard, 50 academic staff members successfully completed a Pre-doctoral SupportProgramme, including proposal writing, conducted by the University in partnership with SANTRUST, while afurther 30, already engaged in doctoral studies, joined the programme. In total 116 permanent staff and 11fixed-term contracted staff are registered for doctoral studies (n=117), either at UJ or at another university.University support included 19 research capacity development workshops.An important development this year is the now completed work on the revision of our Academic PromotionsPolicy to provide for ‘lecturer-scholars’ (vs. lecturers) to progress to full professorship. This is a personal passionof mine, and also results from international comparative work undertaken during my sabbatical in 2011. Senatehas now approved these revisions which will go a very long way toward affirming the value and significance ofthe scholarship of teaching and learning at UJ.Equally important is our work on achieving optimal academic staff provisioning, including what are desirableacademic staff to student ratios, permanent to temporary staff ratios and academic to service and supportstaff ratios. In this respect current information indicates that UJ has a reasonable average academic full-timeequivalent (FTE) staff: student FTE ratio of 1:20, although more work is being undertaken to verify this. Thisdata gathering and analytical work will be finalised by the end of June 2013, and the implications and relatedproposals will be presented to Senate and Council.Regarding the late admissions application process, 2013 will see the University implement an infinitely improvedprocess. Nonetheless, following the tragic stampede in January, we are implementing a project to prevent ‘walkin’applications, and will only receive late applications via the use of a newly developed Mobi-Site applicationon smart phones, the internet or a significantly enhanced call centre. The findings and recommendations ofthe Judge Mokgoro investigation into the stampede was presented to Council, and its recommendations arebeing implemented, with particular reference to the appointment of an events coordinator. In light of the tragicstampede, Council has approved the naming of the main APB Bunting Road Gate, where the tragedy occurred,in the name of the late Mrs Gloria Sekwane.21
The Library and Information CentreDuring 2012 several innovations were introduced in the Library which centred on improved electronic accessand facilities. These include:• UJoogle, modelled on Google, which allows patrons to find integrated results from multiple sources withone query;• a streaming video service based on YouTube that provides video access to lecture material, news feeds andsports events;• in partnership with the Centre for Academic Technologies (CAT), a unique UJ Open Access Publishing Systembased on the Open Journal System which allows access to a platform for the creation of research journals;• a mobile web site, making it possible for Library clients to access the Library catalogue and some electronicdatabases through mobile devices.The Library is undergoing important and exciting renewal focused on it becoming an e-smart environmentwhere students can access both print and electronic information sources without difficulty. In this regard, thelibrary has embarked on a project to renovate and redesign its physical spaces in such a way that it makesprovision for students who want to study quietly as well as for those who would benefit from engaging with oneanother in a social space. All the campus libraries have identified spaces that will be transformed into a learningcommons for undergraduate students and a research commons for postgraduate students.Significant research output growth and next phaseResearch remains vital to national and global prosperity and is an important indicator of the stature of auniversity. We have made considerable investments in research broadly and within selected research centres.We also, annually, return a considerable share of state research grants to our research-productive academics toboost their scholarly activities.UJ’s accredited research output (2011) has now reached a new peak at 774 units, up 121% on its 2007 output,and by far exceeding the 2011 target of 615 units. In the process we have grown our national research outputshare from 4.5% (2007) to 6.9% (2011). This is a most remarkable achievement reached well ahead of the targetof 700 units set for 2020. One of the results is that UJ now ranks among the top 6 residential universities interms of accredited research output. There is now a high level of research activity, as measured by output andthe number of active researchers, which has now reached a new peak of 535 members of staff. UJ has achievedISI field-ranking success with the percentage of international to national journal publications recorded at 66%,which is ahead of the 2011 target of 64%. Despite us losing ten NRF-rated academics during the course of thisyear, we still have a good NRF ratings trajectory, with 105 academics now rated (2020 target: 150). We now alsohave a critical mass of postdoctoral fellows, this having peaked at 103.All these are essential elements of our success and of the future sustainability of our research thrust. Theseachievements have also resulted in moderate success in the number of NRF Chairs awarded during 2012 to UJ: atotal of 4 of the 62 chairs, with chairs for African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Education and Care in Childhood,Indigenous Plant Use and International Law. A further very positive outcome of our research thrust is the growthin research output derived from our technological focus areas, and many scholars in these fields are now amongthe University’s leading research-productive academics. Importantly, 2013 onwards will see us place increasingfocus on research quality and research impact, and this will be reflected in the 2013 Institutional Scorecard.Strategic academic priority projectsFollowing on my advice, in late 2012, Council gave the go-ahead for the creation of a Strategic Academic PriorityProjects fund of R90 million which will be available over a three-year period, and funded from annual workingcapital. The purpose of this project is to fund, over the next three years (2013 to 2015), a small number of largeprojects that have the possibility of triggering UJ’s accession to its next level of teaching, learning and researchexcellence, and that can significantly enhance its global reputation.22
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LIBRARY ANDINFORMATION CENTREOPERAT
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INTERNATIONALISATIONOVERVIEWThrough
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