CHED Research Daycelebrating 10 years in CHED

What do we know and what difference does it make?

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Universities today are the homes of research into almost every subject save one – themselves. There are few fields of social science in which painstaking investigation is more necessary and less often pursued.

Lord James of Rushholme 1965 quoted in Maton 2004

CHED Total Research Output 2001 to 2008

23

34.2

28.1

55.5 57

42.6

74

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Year

Nu

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CHEDOutput

CHED Accredited Journal Outputs 2000 - 2008

3

5.7 6.48.1

16.7

10.35

15

10.7

19.19

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5

10

15

20

25

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Years

Ou

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its

Units

6,165,027

2,330,739

2,629,3181,204,970Grand Total

45,26336,000 9,263VLF/VSF

153,00067,00039,00047,000Thuthuka

273,920 97,532176,388Start-Up

10,000 10,000 Short Visit

213,60075,00089,10049,500S & R Leave

11,4654,3023,8523,311Page Costs

20,40020,400  Miscellaneous URC

197,520 103,91493,606Emerging Researcher

341,48060,000166,625114,855Conference Travel

67,55867,558  Carnegie Develop

301,93380,328126,69494,911Block Grant

40,000 40,000 Rating Award

4,488,8881,920,1511,952,601616,137NRF

Grand Total200920082007

NRF and URC Awards

Contributions to …

• CHED’s own professional development

• Fields of specialization

• Institutional and national development

20No. Phd’s (WIP)

49%18%% of academic staff with Phd’s

3No. Masters (WIP)

3311No. of Phds

6860No. of academic staff

20082000

CHED’s professional development

Fields of specialization Higher Education Studies

Adult Learning

Science Education

Language studies

Engineering Education

Health Science Education

Information Management & ICT’s

Studies in Higher EducationTeaching in Higher EducationSouth African Journal of Higher Ed

British Journal of Ed Tech Computers & EducationSouth African Computer Journal

Medical Teacher Education for Primary Care

Language in EducationJournal of Applied LinguisticsSouthern African J of English Studies

European Journal of PhysicsInternational J of Science Ed

SA Journal of Libraries & Info ScienceElec Journal of Knowledge Management

International J of Eng Ed

Journal of EducationSouth African Labour Bulletin

Student access

Student dev

Curriculum dev

Literacies

Staff dev

Policy

Admissions & placement testing Benchmark Testing RPL

Extended programmesFactors affecting throughput

New Academic Practitioners’ ProgrammeTutor development

Policies: EdTech, Multilingualism, Assessment, Quality Dev,

Service Learning

Institutional and National Development

Academic literacy and numeracy across the curriculum e.g. ‘new’ curriculum in HS, Physics report Writing, innovative teaching through ICT’s

Where to from here?

• Post-Phd…

• Creative tensions – building fields & developing institutions and national systems

• Review our strategic plan

• Professionalizing research operations

• Communicating our research