1. Decolonisation means different things to different people, and is an issue that is being intensely engaged with across the university system, as students and staff grapple to make meaning and build a shared understanding of it.
From the perspective of the Department of Higher Education and Training, decolonisation is fundamentally related to rapid, and perhaps radical, transformation of the higher education sector. It is related to:
The Department’s key intervention to promote the transformation agenda at an institutional level is the University Capacity Development Programme, which was described in Question 1592 on 22 June 2017. This is a multi-faceted, multi-year, resourced programme, which has the overarching goal of “Transforming teaching, learning, researching and leading towards enhanced quality, success and equity in universities”.
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