CUT Annual Report 2013

Achievements - Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
Twenty-seven (27) articles were published in accredited journals.
Four (4) articles were published in non-subsidised journals.
Thirty-four (34) conference papers were presented nationally and internationally.
Nine (9) posters were presented nationally and internationally.
Twenty one (21) staff members served on the editorial boards of national and
international journals.
Nineteen (19) staff members served as internal and external assessors and moderators.
Awards / Donations
A total of R1 952 950 in grants from the NRF and CUT was awarded to researchers in the faculty for the academic year
2013.
Significant highlights
Prof. Linda de Jager
Dean: Faculty of Health and
Environmental Sciences
The Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology initiated
collaboration towards the promotion of MIT research at CUT.
The School of Health Technology had a collaborative relationship with the UFS’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
and one staff member spent every Wednesday at UFS.
The School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences has a collaborative relationship with the UFS’s Department of
Chemistry.
The programme Emergency Medical Care initiated collaboration between the Faculty and the Northern Cape College of
Emergency Care and the Free State College of Emergency Care in view of possible MoUs.
The Clinical Technology Programme initiated collaboration with the UFS’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; the
Herzzentrum Universitaet Leipzig in Germany; and the University of Oslo in Norway, and seven prospective research
projects, involving two staff members, were identified.
Prof. Joyce MacKinnon, Associate Dean and Professor from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Indiana
University in the USA, was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences from 17 to 25
September 2012.
Achievements - Faculty of Humanities
Twenty (20) articles (12.33 publication units) were published in accredited journals.
Thirty (30) papers were presented at national/international conferences.
The undergraduate pass rate was 79.4% in 2013.
Prof. DP Ngidi received a category C rating as a researcher from NRF, effective from
01 January 2014 to 31 December 2019.
Awards / Donations
Financial support of R25.9 million was provided by the Funza Lushaka Bursary Scheme to Teacher Education students.
A total of R135 000 was awarded by the NRF to researchers in the faculty.
A total of R32 000 was awarded to the Department of Design and Studio Art for a block bursary from the National Arts
Council of South Africa, which will be awarded to two students with financial difficulties who perform well.
The future of technical drawing is CAD!
CUT’s Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
embraced Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) as the future of
drawing and design, and 3D printing will become more and more
mainstream – that’s why our students who will become teachers
are trained in CAD.
Prof. David Ngidi
Dean: Faculty of Humanities
CUT’s geneticist, Prof. Annabel Fossey, and
agricultural expert Prof. Dennis Umesiobi was
inaugurated early in 2013.
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