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UNIZULU defines transformation as ‘contextual responsiveness to local and regional development needs of local and regional communities by producing the required intellectual capital (graduates, research, technology transfer and societal intellectual engagement) that advances public good and brings about social redress’.
Table 68: DHET Barometer
THEME
SUB-THEME
Institutional culture
• Governance, leadership and management • Social inclusion
Equity and redress
• Staff and student access, support and success
Transforming the academic project
• Teaching & learning • Research
• Community engagement
• Transformation and diversity competencies
Enabling funding regime
• Funding strategies to diversify the sectoral funding pool
• Transformative budgeting and costing process, and spend (including B-BBEE)
• Improving efficiencies and effectiveness in business processes and use of facilities
UNIZULU’S INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION PLAN (ITP)
UNIZULU defines transformation as ‘contextual responsiveness to local and regional development needs of local and regional communities by producing the required intellectual capital (graduates, research, technology transfer and societal intellectual engagement) that advances public good and brings about social redress’.
Based on this conceptualisation of transformation, the University:
• Seeks to produce high-quality graduates in areas of societal need and critical scarce skills
• Produces high-quality postgraduates who will assume leadership roles in their professions and civil society
• Produces research that contributes to the creation of solutions for societal application and advancement of various forms of
disciplinary knowledge
• Seeks to engage in community partnerships that recognise and advance local indigenous knowledge systems
• Pursues research that advances various disciplinary knowledge areas working with equity designated groups and building
research skills and capacities among these communities
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UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND ANNUAL REPORT 2020
