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Editorial

Harold Wolpe Memorial lecture presented by Professor S Badat at the 

5 

Biennial Conference of the South African Association for Research 

and Development in Higher Education, held at the Peninsula 

Technikon, July 1999

Perspectives on Higher Education

C D Cilliers & R J Sternberg 

13

Thinking styles: implications for optimising learning and teaching in 

university education

Abstract

A P Craig 

25

Education and the question about understanding: What's next: 

Curriculum 2005, 21, 2005 ...?

Abstract

T A Davies 

32

Entrepreneurship development in South Africa: redefining the role of

tertiary institutions in a reconfigured higher education system

Abstract

P Gibbon, A Habib, J Jansen & A Parekh 

40

Accounting for change: the micropolitics of university restructuring. 

Part two: changing structures, contesting identities

Abstract

J Kroon & S Meyer 

47

The role of entrepreneurship education in career expectations of 

students

Abstract

R Osman & J Castle 

54

The recognition of prior learning: early lessons, challenges and 

promise

Abstract

P D G Steyn & R Killen 

61

Reconstruction of meaning during group work in a teacher education 

programme

Abstract

G J van der Westhuizen & M G Mahlomaholo 

68

Historical legacies hold us captive B an analysis of curriculum 

changes at Vista University

Abstract

Y Waghid 

77

Transforming university teaching and learning through a reflexive praxis

Abstract

Research in Higher Education

C M Fourie 

84

The development of a student rating of teaching effectiveness 

questionnaire

Abstract

N S Gwele 

92

Reflections of graduate nursing education students on their experiences

in developing portfolios

Abstract

H R Hay, M Fourie & J F Hay 

100

Are institutional combinations, mergers or amalgamation the answer? 

An investigation into staff perceptions

Abstract

E Henning, A Mamiane & M Pheme 

109

Entering the academy as "the other" B about writing competence and

the bridge to the discourse community

Abstract

G K Huysamen 

129

Marking standards and the differential predictability of the first-year 

university performance of different demographic groups

Abstract

E Koch & M Snyders 

138

The effect of video supplemental instruction on the academic 

performance in mathematics of disadvantaged students

Abstract

R Miller, J Bradbury & K Acutt 

147

Academic performance of English first and second-language students: 

a retrospective appraisal

Abstract

D Ruth 

154

Staff perceptions of teaching and research at the University of the North

Abstract

R van Eeden, M de Beer & C H Coetzee 

171

Cognitive ability, learning potential, and personality traits as predictors 

of academic achievement by engineering and other science and 

technology students

Abstract

E van Rooyen 

180

Die voorspelling van die akademiese prestasie van studente in 'n universiteitsoorbruggingsprogram

Abstract

The Practice of Higher Education

G P Barkhuizen 

190

A practical guide to intradepartmental induction for first-year university 

lecturers

Abstract

J P Ivy 

197

Building quality into academic programmes using quality circles

Abstract

R P Muller & D M de Kock 

205

Educating facilitators of an authentic learning approach

Abstract

J S Wessels 

217

Criteria for assessing learning material for distance education

Abstract