Dear Colleagues, As we wind down for 2020, we acknowledge a year of great challenge to many of our members who have been ill, lost employment and lost loved ones, due to the COVD pandemic. Let us also reflect how, in spite of all, we have also witnessed leadership, courage, innovation and resilience at multiple […]
Writing: Samia Chasi, Decolonisation – A chance to reimagine North-South partnerships, University World News, 27 August 2020: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200826111105105 Samia Chasi, COVID-19 has put HE internationalisation under review, University World News, 9 April 2020: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200408093750683 Samia Chasi & Orla Quinlan, South Africa: Living Laboratory of Resilience, EAIE’s Forum magazine (Winter 2020 edition) Samia Chasi, Embracing resilience in internationalisation, Study South Africa – The […]
By Dr Samia Chasi IEASA and ANIE entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 4 August 2020, renewing a relationship that was first established in 2012. In a virtual ceremony attended by representatives of both organisations, the MoU was signed by Ms Orla Quinlan, President of IEASA, and Prof Charles Ochieng’ Ong’ondo, Executive Director […]
By Dr Samia Chasi (IEASA) and Dr James Otieno Jowi (ANIE) African voices are often absent or underrepresented in the global discourse on higher education internationalisation. Recognising this challenge, IEASA and ANIE entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in August 2020 to jointly advance higher education internationalisation in Africa and to amplify African voices […]
Nelson Mandela University mourns passing of Professor Lungile Pepeta It is with great sadness and an immense sense of loss that the colleagues at Nelson Mandela University learned of the passing of the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Lungile Pepeta in August 2020. His passing is not only a great loss […]
Professor Tricia Naicker, Associate Professor at UKZN’s College of Health Sciences. BY: Nombuso Dlamini The youngest Associate Professor at UKZN’s College of Health Sciences, Professor Tricia Naicker, has been awarded the 2020 Raikes Medal by the South African Chemical Institute. The medal acknowledges a member of the Institute, under the age of 40, whose original chemical […]
