Prof. Linda du Plessis
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning
Luzelle van Rensburg
Personal assistant to the DVC: Teaching and Learning
(018) 299 4871
Luzelle.VanRensburg@nwu.ac.za
Whatever your background, and wherever you are, the NWU offers you an education opportunity. We are committed to student success: feel welcome and be in touch.
Teaching and Learning are the core business of higher education in South Africa. The quality of education, whether in continuing education, post- or undergraduate programmes, depends on three factors: academic knowledge, skills and the andragogic knowledge utilised and developed by academics to ensure that teaching and learning are collaborative, lead to critical thinking, are innovative and stimulating. Student as well as staff development is complementary in terms of our commitment to a quality education experience.
The NWU, South Africa's second largest university, with its long investment in distance learning, has adopted social justice as the lens through which all education and related provision is considered, synthesised and organised. Social justice explains our commitment to self-direction in student learning, a commitment to 21st-century skills, as well as high-quality student support, especially in online or distance learning modes. Social justice explains our commitment to maximise opportunities for students to use their languages of preference as well as to master English as a common language of communication. Social justice also explains our sense of the curriculum as being inclusive of the community (service as well as workplace experience).
Teaching and Learning
Chief Director: Teaching and Learning
Mpho Chaka
+27183892908
mpho.chaka@nwu.ac.za
Luzelle van Rensburg
Personal assistant to the Chief Director: Teaching and Learning
(018) 299 4871
Luzelle.VanRensburg@nwu.ac.za
The division of the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) includes the Centre for Teaching and Learning, which is responsible for staff academic development, student support and development, e-learning and curriculum development.
Teaching and learning as well as support services to our students feature highly on our priority list. Our dedicated lecturers from our faculties and support staff are therefore well-equipped to provide learning, support and guidance to our students. Our technological solutions have made it possible for teaching and learning to continue, uninterrupted, despite the challenges associated with power outages.
The Qualification and Academic Programme Planning Unit assists Faculties primarily with the processes concerning the internal approvals and recommendation consultative structures (such as the Senate Committee for Academic Standards), and external approval and accreditation processes relating to the CHE, SAQA, HEQC and DHET and other statutory bodies to ensure that the University's PQM remains updated, aligned to the University Strategy and responsive to changes in the regulatory and market environments.
The Language Directorate of the NWU is a support services division that renders a variety of language services to the University: language planning (policy and implementation), translation, interpreting, language editing, language advice and a language ombudsperson function. Additionally, the Directorate also carries out research where this may be relevant to any of its language activities.
The Academic Grants Manager is located within the Teaching and Learning division and oversees and reports on the earmarked grant activities (for teaching and learning as well as research, in collaboration with the DVC’s Research and Innovation Office) for which reporting to government and other agencies is required.
The DVC’s office supports the Registrars Committee for Agreements with the NWU, which ratifies all agreements with the NWU that have a teaching and learning focus (whether for post-, undergraduate, or continuing education programmes) for signature.
Language Directorate
Director: Language Directorate
Senior Administrative Assistant
Lefa Sobuthongo
(018) 299 4445
Visit our website for more information
Academic Grants Administration
Academic Grants Manager
(018) 285 2334
Edwina.Fransman@nwu.ac.za
Senior Administrative Assistant
Tebogo Kgaile
(018) 389 2490
Strategic Intelligence
Director: NWU Strategic Intelligence
(018) 299 4861
janhendrik.viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Quality Enhancement
Director: Quality Enhancement
(018) 299 4874
jannie.jacobsz@nwu.ac.za
Visit the Quality Enhancement website for more information