The Interview: New Pretoria University Vice-Chancellor, Tawana Kupe, has Pan-African dreams for higher education By Nkateko Mabasa Nkateko_Azania
Within his five-year contract as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pretoria , Tawana Kupe plans to leave a legacy of “an institution that can be counted on with a changing context” and “provoke students” to think about the situations around them as agents of change.
He was interested in what kinds of media could speak to Africans, as the models and techniques he had learnt were Western-based: “Education is not about what I read, but how does what I read provoke my thoughts on an issue?” The “African university is rising in a changing society” and “poor management and inefficient skills” pose a risk in the ability of universities to create a supportive environment for students to own their education, says Kupe.
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