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Volume 17(2) 2003
Table of Contents

PERSPECTIVES ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Lecturers, students and community members sharing the responsibility of assessing project-based poster presentations                                                                                            

5

A A Beylefeld, G Joubert, M P Jama & B de Klerk

Abstract

The role of education in the rehabilitation of offenders                                             

13

H J Bruyns & C Nieuwenhuizen

Abstract

The benefit of introducing audit software into curricula for computer auditing students: a student perspective from the University of Pretoria                                                                 

21

G P Coetzee & R du Bruyn

Abstract

Higher education policy discourse in South Africa: a struggle for alignment with macro development policy                                                                                                          

31

A Fataar

Abstract

Indigenous African knowledge systems and innovation in higher education in South Africa           

40

P Higgs, L G Higgs & E Venter

Abstract

From literacy to literacies: preparing higher education in South Africa for the future          

46

A Hugo

Abstract

Implementing national qualifications framework policy                                              

54

W R Kilfoil

Abstract

Changing discourses of academic development at a South African technikon 1991 to 2002            

60

S McKenna

Abstract

Can prior learning experience serve as a catalyst in the paradigm shift from traditional teaching methodology to outcomes-based educational practice?                                            

68

P A P Nair

Abstract

Implications of the Employment Equity Act for the higher education sector           

79

L M Portnoi

Abstract

Changing career orientations in higher education: Can HE be a breeding ground for entrepreneurial careers?                                                                                                

86

H W Schenk

Abstract

Do legal frameworks direct merger outcomes? A study of the legal origins and consequences of recent higher education mergers                                                                                  

94

V Soobrayan

Abstract

The story of South African academic development in international perspective: have we lost the plot?                                                                                                                                 

110

T Volbrecht

Abstract

RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Factors distinguishing between achievers and at risk students: a qualitative and quantitative synthesis                                                                                                                         

118

R Eiselen & H Geyser

Abstract

A critical overview of trends and practices in performance management in the South African higher educational environment                                                                                  

131

K Franzsen

Abstract

A questioning environment for scaffolding learners' questioning engagement with academic text: a university case study                                                                                                  

139

J Hardman & D Ng'ambi

Abstract

Success and failure in distance education: perceptions of South African students and lecturers in Business Management                                                                                                  

147

R Killen, A de K Marais & P van Z Loedolff

Abstract

Lecturers' experience of postgraduate supervision in a distance education context          

159

A C Lessing & S Schulze

Abstract

Retention: predicting first-year success                                                                     

169

A Lourens & I P J Smit

Abstract

Troubling the numbers: is teacher demand projections possible within the context of HIV/AIDS                                                                                                                                          

171

P Ramrathan

Abstract

An international comparison of the science education priorities of science teachers, lecturers and students in two developing countries: Turkey and Lesotho                                    

187

C Tekkaya, K Rochford, A Moru, A Inal & I Demirtas

Abstract

A comparative analysis of sexual harassment policies at selected higher education institutions in South Africa                                                                                                                     

197

E C Wilken & J W Badenhorst

Abstract

THE PRACTICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Educational game models: conceptualization and evaluation                                 

206

A Amory & R Seagram

Abstract

"Students doing it for themselves": the role of informal study groups in a mixed mode teacher education programme                                                                                                    

218

C Bertram

Abstract

A reading intervention programme for mathematics students                                

226

E J Pretorius & C A Bohlmann

Abstract

Book review

A S Coetzee-Van Rooy

Universities in the marketplace: the commercialization of higher education by Derek Bok

237

 

 

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