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Sustainable Goal 4 – Quality Education
Quality education is enshrined in UNIZULU’s Strategic Goals. Numerous enhancements, as evidenced in the Senate Report, Vice-Chancellor’s Report as well as the Performance Assessment Report, highlight the significant effort by
UNIZULU to provide quality education to students. From continuous programme reviews to the development of new programmes in line with societal needs, UNIZULU has transformed in line with its vision to provide quality education as a comprehensive institution. Support services such as the LIS contribute to a quality learning environment. Student staff ratios have received great attention and several mentorship and tutorship programmes have been developed. Continuous workshops were held, aimed at teaching and learning as well as research to enhance student experiences. The University has also focused on students at risk to address learning concerns. With COVID-19, UNIZULU had to adapt to embark on online teaching, learning and supervision using platforms
such as Moodle, MS Teams, Zoom, emails and other social media platforms and Moodle has been used for formative and summative assessments. Regarding research, UNIZULU has shifted to online supervision, training, conferencing and research management. This involved empowering supervisors and postgraduate students to utilise ICT and LMS to continue their research and supervision activities. UNIZULU harnessed online modes to ensure the quality assurance of the approval of proposals at the Faculty Board and Higher Degrees and Ethics committees. This extended to the submission of master’s and doctoral manuscripts for both external examination and the processing of received examiners’ reports for graduation purposes continue smoothly online.
The Department of Accounting and Auditing has, through its association with SAICA and its new competency framework, included an awareness of the 17 development goals as part of its syllabus. Training of future business leaders includes not only technical skills related to the accounting profession but places emphasis on ensuring
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