CUT Annual Report 2009

Academic Project
CUT embraced its status as a University of Technology and as such we are a regional university
where all science, engineering and technology research programmes are directed at the development
of the region and to solve the problems of the region. There are more than 50 programmes for
students to choose from at CUT.
Academic Development and Support
The role of Academic De vel op ment
and Support (ADS) is to support
academic staff and stu dents by
enhancing student-centred teach ing
and learning ap proaches, pro viding
need-directed academic staff de vel opment
initiatives, leader ship in stu dent
academic de vel op ment practices,
initia tion of in no va tive curriculum devel
op ment pro cesses, imple mentation
of edu cational tech nology strategies,
as well as co-ordination of Work-
Integrated Learning (WIL).
During 2009, ADS achieved
the following strategic
objectives:
Prof. Mabokang
Monnapula-Mapesela,
Dean of Academic
Development and
Support.
• Benchmarking academic development practices with
other higher education institutions;
• Enrolling academic staff members for formal qualifications
to update their teaching and learning practices;
• Managing the implementation of the Academic Literacy
Programme for first-year students;
• Establishing institutional curriculum development
committees to address the Higher Education Qualification
Framework (HEQF);
• Managing the administrative and academic support
services at the Kimberley Regional Learning Centre;
• Implementing quality assurance practices; and coordinating
WIL.
The Academic Language Proficiency (ALP) course commenced
at the beginning of the second quarter of 2009 on
the Bloemfontein, Welkom and Kimberley campuses. The
aim of the course is to help students develop their reading
and writing ability in English to a level that will give them
a fair chance of succeeding in their respective studies at
the University.
Bloemfontein Welkom Kimberley
Enrolment 1 545 396 27
Pass rate 66 % 54 % 100 %
The ALP enrolment figures and pass rate per campus in 2009.
Extended Curriculum programmes were offered in the following
fields; Art and Design, Health Sciences, In for mation
Tech no logy and Engi neering. An amount of R2.289 mil lion
was received from the Department of Higher Edu cation and
Training (DHET) to be used in the provision of Ex tended
Curriculum programmes for the 2009 financial year.
The Centre for e-Learning and Educational Technology
hosted the Blackboard Community Conference at CUT,
which was attended by a total of 140 delegates from across
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