The debate about the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining one’s qualifications from a single university has been raging on for some time now.
Author: Prof Jairos Kangira (Prof Jairos Kangira )
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Opinion – Graduates should create employment
There has been a growing concern about the fate of thousands of graduates who complete various qualifications at public and private universities and colleges in Namibia every year.
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Opinion – Professors are creators of knowledge
Professorial lectures are the backbone of academic life in any university. On Tuesday this week, Professor Catherine Nengomasha, an information science professor in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia, delivered her inaugural professorial lecturer at the institution.
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Opinion – External examination enhances accountability in higher education
When higher education institutions launch new programmes, one of the ways which they cite in assuring quality is regularly subjecting these qualifications to external examination.
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Opinion – NCHE improving higher education through minimum standards
Ensuring the quality of higher education has been the core business of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) since its inception by an Act of Parliament in 2003 (Act No 26 of 2003).
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Opinion – Only PhD holders should lecture at university
When I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I started celebrating because we had spent four hard years researching and writing our theses since we were working as teaching assistants.
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Opinion – Should universities allow AI?
The advent of Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022 was celebrated by students, academics and researchers in higher education institutions, especially in the developed world.
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Opinion – What research-intensive universities entail
Today I decided to touch on a hot subject in higher education that I have always questioned when I read about it or hear it being discussed in academic circles – the subject of what a research-intensive university entails.
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Opinion – Now that you’re a first-year student, what next?
The 2023 academic year has started in earnest for those higher education institutions that follow the January to December academic year.
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Opinion – All hell breaks loose without integrity
Our society is bedevilled with many problems, mainly because of our own making. We create problems for ourselves because of a lack of integrity. Here lies the biggest problem, lack of integrity.