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CHEC is a Section 21 company run by a Board of Directors consisting of four senior executives of each of its members, usually the Deputy Vice-Chancellors charged with academic affairs, and the CHEC Chief Executive Officer. The Board operates under delegated authority from the Councils of the four institutions, which also approved the Articles and Memorandum of Association of the Section 21 non-profit company (registration number 2003/003131/08). It has a CEO with a small secretariat and team of project leaders. It relies on the staff of the constituent institutions, particularly the institutional planners, to drive agreed projects and for technical assistance and development work, retaining consultants and specialists as needed.
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Board of Directors (2010):
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Institutional Planners (2010):
The Institutional Planners meet regularly in a range of working groups. When necessary, they meet separately to discuss issues that require a common response or strategy.
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Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Professor Anthony Staak
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
P O Box
Tel: +27 21 4603356
Fax: +27 21 4603983
Email : STAAKA@cput.ac.za
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Professor Anthony Staak is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He previously held the position of Dean of Engineering at the Peninsula Technikon. He qualified in engineering at the University of Cape Town and completed various postgraduate studies in engineering, economics and technology policy at local as well as overseas universities, most notably Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a long standing involvement with higher education in South Africa, having been part of the senior management of both the university and the technikon for many years.
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Mr Rob Woodward
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Director: Institutional Research and Planning
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
P O Box 652
Cape Town
8000
Tel: +27 (0)21 460 3893
Fax: +27 (0)21 460 3737
Email : WoodwardR@cput.ac.za
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Rob Woodward is the Director of Institutional Research and Planning at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He has been in education for 40 years as a teacher and administrator and was previously engaged in academic staff development. He is particularly interested in the effects on staff of the mergers in higher education in South Africa.
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Stellenbosch University
Professor Julian Smith
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Vice-Rector (Community Interaction & Personnel)
Stellenbosch Universiteit / University
Privaatsak X1 / Private Bag X1
MATIELAND
7602
Phone : +27 21 8083710
Fax : +27 21 808 3714
Email : jfsmith@sun.ac.za
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Professor Julian Smith is the Vice-Rector (Community Interaction and Personnel) at Stellenbosch University. He was previously a Lecturer and then Registrar at the University of the Western Cape before taking up his position at SU in 2000. He holds the qualifications BA; MA; BA Hon; HED; DLitt from UWC. Professor Smith is a Founder member of the Registrars’ Forum and of the South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum. He is currently a member of the Western Cape Sport Transformation Committee and of several Boards of Directors.
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Dr Jerome Slamat
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Senior Director: Community Interaction
Division for Community Interaction
Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X1
MATIELAND
7602
Tel: +27 (0)21 808 3639
Fax: +27 (0)21808 2976
e-mail: jaslamat@sun.ac.za
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Dr Jerome Slamat is Senior Director: Community Interaction at Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa. He was previously Coordinator: International Fundraising at the Stellenbosch Foundation and before that has occupied various positions in the Western Cape Education Department, the last being Senior Curriculum Planner: General Education and Training Assessment. He has in-depth knowledge and experience in international development work through his participation in an exchange programme with the Badische Landeskirche in Karlsruhe, Germany (1993–1996). He holds a B.Com, Higher Diploma in Education and M.Ed (cum laude) from the University of the Western Cape and a PhD in Education Policy Studies from Stellenbosch University. He is a co-founder and current Chairperson of the South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (SAHECEF), a national body that seeks to advance and support community engagement in South African Higher Education Institutions. He was invited in 2009 by the National Research Foundation (NRF) to serve as a member of its expert panel on community engagement.
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University of Cape Town
Professor Crain Soudien
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Professor Crain Soudien is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UCT with responsibility for the areas of transformation, student affairs, social responsiveness and the staff experience. He has been studying and writing on issues relating to transformation for the last 20 years and, in 2009, he chaired the Ministerial Committee into Transformation in Higher Education.
Professor Soudien earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Comparative African Government and Law; Master of Arts degree in Comparative African Government and Law; and his Higher Diploma of Education (Post Graduate) Secondary at UCT. He also holds a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of South Africa, and a Master's in Education and PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in the USA.
Professor Soudien serves on various boards including those of the District Six Museum Foundation, the Independent Examinations Board, the Cape Town Festival, the Nelson Mandela Museum and the South African Canadian Studies Association. He is President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies.
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Judith Favish
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Director: Institutional Planning
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701
Tel: +27 21 650 2180
Fax: +27 21 650 2114
Email: judy.favish@uct.ac.za
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Judith Favish is Director: Institutional Planning at the University of Cape Town. In addition to responsibility for institutional information, institutional planning, academic planning, quality assurance, and promoting social responsiveness, she is the co-convener of a task team responsible for implementing a Memorandum of Understanding signed between four universities in the province and the PGWC. Prior to this position, she was Director: Institutional Planning and Transformation at the Cape Technikon (2000-2003); and before that Director of Policy and Planning in the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE). She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Policy, Leadership and Management in Higher Education from the University of the Western Cape, and an MA in Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Warwick (UK). Since 2005 she has been a member of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) Executive Committee and Board, and sits on the Governing Board of the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town. She was previously a member of the Boards of the Learning Cape, the Centre for Extended Learning, and the National Board for Further Education and Training.
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University of the Western Cape
Professor Ramesh Bharuthram
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Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)
University of the Western Cape
Modderdam Road
Belville 7530
Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535
telephone: +27-21-959-2142
fax: +27-21-959-3352
email: rbharuthram@uwc.ac.za
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Professor Ramesh Bharuthram was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Western Cape in January 2008. He obtained his PhD in theoretical Plasma Physics from the University of Natal in 1980. He has served tertiary education in South Africa for 40 years in several capacities – at the University of Durban-Westville from Laboratory Assistant to Head of the School of Physics, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor; as Director: Research at the M L Sultan Technikon (1998–2002) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2002–2005). The previous position he held was Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2006-2007).
He has published more than 100 research articles in journals of international standing and been a visiting professor at the Central University, Hyderabad, India and University of California, San Diego, USA. In 1986 and 1991 he was a post doctoral fellow at Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany as a recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
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Mr Larry Pokpas
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University of the Western Cape
Modderdam Road
Belville 7530
Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535
Tel: +27 21-959 2761
Fax: +27 21-959 2973
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CHEC
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Ms Nasima Badsha
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Chief Executive Officer
Cape Higher Education Consortium
P O Box 18094, Wynberg 7824
Tel : +27 21 763 7102
Fax : +27 21 763 7117
Email : nb@chec.ac.za
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Nasima Badsha is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cape Higher Education Consortium. She was Deputy Director General in the Department of Education from 1997 to June 2006, where she headed the Higher Education Branch. She also served as Advisor to the Minister of Education from July 2006 to April 2009. She has recently accepted a position as Advisor to the Minister of Science and Technology.
She has held various other positions, including Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape, where she headed the Academic Development Centre and was Executive Assistant to the Rector; and Research Officer with the University of Cape Town’s Alternative Admissions Research Project. She was a member of the National Commission on Higher Education and has served on the Council on Higher Education.
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