Learning and Teaching AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
THE FOUR KEY PRIORITIES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING ARE:
Excellence and student success and retention; Research-led learning and teaching; Learning with technology (emerging technologies); and, Transformation and renewal of the curriculum. The university has invested in many support programmes and innovative interventions to enhance academic success.
STUDENT SUPPORT A total of 795 first-year students joined the First-Year Transition Programme in 2022, a mentoring programme that helps students transition to university life with the support of mentors who are senior students from the same faculty.
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
The Accelerated Excellence Programme (AEP) provides high-performing second-year students with essential skills for the changing world of work. Learning modules on presentation skills, interview techniques and CV development, entrepreneurship and community development and leadership skills are presented in monthly lunch-time meetings and four quarterly weekend residential sessions.
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The Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA) Programme involves postgraduate students working under the guidance of a lecturer, senior lecturer or head of programme to assist these academics in undergraduate module delivery, encompassing the whole planning cycle of learning, teaching and assessment. GTAs are attached to a particular lecturer and attend lectures for the module, arrange and oversee the tutorial programme and assist with the marking of assignments.
MIGRATION AND MOBILITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLECTIVE IN AFRICA (MMICA) Migration and mobilities refer to the contemporary and historical movement of people, as well as to the circulation of ideas, objects and capital associated with this mobility. UWC’s Migration and Mobilities Interdisciplinary Collective in Africa (MMICA) was established in 2019 in the Office of the DVC (Academic) to promote critical approaches in research and further collaboration on this topic. The aim is to build an academic Centre for the Study of Migration and Mobilities at UWC to focus on the contemporary issues and global concerns in the field of migration studies and promote a new generation of South African and African academics to do research internationally that provides an African perspective.
