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and Agriculture and three staff members are employed at the Richards Bay campus. Table 39 in the Vice-Chancellor’s report provides an overview of all academic and academic support staff during the year under review.
The Faculty of Arts is made up of 16 departments, housing a wide range of fields, including Language and Linguistics to Social Sciences and the Humanities. The Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law is made up of five departments comprising accounting, business management, economics, law and public administration. The faculty also houses the Law Clinic. The Faculty of Education is made up of seven departments that provide for programmes in Arts and Languages Education, Curriculum and Instructional Studies, Early Childhood Education and Social Sciences Education, among others. The Faculty also has an Educational Professional Practice and Child Guidance Clinic in place. The Faculty of Science is made up of 14 departments, including Science Access, which offers bridging programmes. Three departments in the faculty offer focused degree programmes (Agriculture, Consumer Science and Nursing Science). The rest of the BSc degree qualifications are double majors. In addition, there are two diploma programmes in Human Movement Science and Consumer Science. The BSc double-majored programmes and B Consumer sciences articulate to BSc Honours, while the BSc Agriculture and the B Nursing degrees (NQF 8) articulate directly to MSc.
The faculties are supported byTLC, LIS, the Research and Innovation Office and the Centre for Sustainable Integrated Rural Development (CSIRD).
CHANGES IN ACADEMIC STRUCTURE
In line with the first and second strategic goals of the Institution and the associated objectives, the Institution during the 2020 academic year focused on maintaining and advancing the Programme Qualification Mix (PQM) to achieve a broad spectrum of programmes characteristic of a comprehensive university, drawing from both conventional university-type programmes and vocational offerings. The PQM development support involved programme development and accreditation applications; application for official recognition of the foundation programmes by DHET; quality reviews associated with programme accreditation; professional body endorsement and qualification standards conformance; stakeholder engagement and participation in community of practice events; and deliberations of the latest developments in the national higher education quality landscape.
The programme development and accreditation application process has been continuously supported by the
Quality Assurance (QA) Unit, which assisted with internal programme development and approval processes at an institutional level (Step 1); DHET PQM clearance/approval (Step 2); professional body recognition/endorsement where relevant (Step 3); CHE accreditation (Step 4); and National Qualifications Framework (NQF) registration by SAQA and allocation of a qualification ID (Step 5).
The following programmes acquired full accreditation, obtaining professional body recognition/endorsement (Minimum Requirements forTeacher Education Qualifications (MRTEQ)/ Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA)), CHE accreditation and SAQA registration/ID:
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Educational Management and Leadership, SAQA ID 117917 allocated
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Language Education,
SAQA ID 117978 allocated
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Curriculum Studies,
SAQA ID 117791 allocated
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Educational Research
Methodology, SAQA ID 117976 allocated
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, SAQA
ID 117677 allocated
• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering,
SAQA ID 117920 allocated
• Bachelor of Social Work, SAQA ID 117923 allocated
The following programmes acquired professional body (MRTEQ/ECSA/South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP)) recognition/endorsement and CHE accreditation, and are awaiting SAQA registration and qualification ID allocation:
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Economics and Management Sciences Education
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Social Sciences Education
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Inclusive Education
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Science Education
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Educational Psychology
The following programmes received either CHE accreditation, SAQA registration and professional body recognition/endorsement conditions. They are pending SAQA registration and qualification ID allocation:
• Bachelor of Education Honours in Foundation Phase Teaching. The programme was conditionally accredited by the CHE. The Department is currently working on the accreditation conditions
• Master of Arts in Sustainable Integrated Rural Development. The programme was conditionally
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