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.
Author: Prof Jairos Kangira (Prof Jairos Kangira )
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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.
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Opinion – What is it that SA universities are doing right in rankings?
The reputation of universities worldwide has been judged by how they perform on the world rankings of universities.
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Opinion – More time for teaching practice needed to produce
One of the recommendations of the recently held national education conference was that student teachers must have more teaching practice time in schools before they graduate.
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Opinion – No to examination leaks
As the nation enters into the season of national and international examinations in public and private schools and colleges, we need, all of us, as responsible citizens, to open our eyes and ears in every corner of the country so that we detect any instances of examination leaks so that we preserve integrity in our examination system.
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Opinion – Revealing the side-effects of reorganising university structures
Recently, it has become trendy for many universities across the world to engage in reorganising their structures under the guise of genuine transformation that is supposed to bring efficiency in the running of these institutions and save billions of dollars in operation costs.
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Opinion – NSFAF’s recovery strategy to benefit more students
The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) in July this year launched a feasible recovery plan in an attempt to collect several millions of dollars owed to the fund by beneficiaries who have reneged on paying back their loans.
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Opinion – How to improve writing style for academic success (Part 2)
Well-coached and grounded postgraduate students are aware that good academic writing style is achieved also by basing their arguments on credible sources or researches of scholars in their areas of specialisations.