| Leading local expert talks about role of teaching in first-year experience |
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Prof Ian Scott, Director of the Academic Development Programme (ADP) and Deputy Dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town, enthralled listeners on Wednesday at the last day of the first South African Conference on the First-Year Experience.
Prof Scott was the keynote speaker for the day and focused
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on First-Year experience as terrain of failure or platform for development?: Critical Choices for Higher Education. Read more |
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| People have an impact on throughput rates at Universities says international expert |
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On Monday, 8 September 2008, the 1st Southern African Conference on the First-year Experience commenced at the Protea Hotel, Techno Park, Stellenbosch.
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At this event Dr Peter Dietsche, one of the keynote speakers stated that "the power of the postsecondary experience lies in people. At the end of the day it is people that make a difference in how students experience an institution. So it is very important for people to be a supportive mechanism in institutions. "
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