The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is a young institution, having developed as a result of the restructuring of the landscape of higher education through the merger process. The years 2003 and 2005 saw the restructuring of the higher education landscape resulting in 23 public higher education institutions comprising of eleven traditional universities, six comprehensive universities and six universities of technologies involved in mergers. According to the National Plan for Higher Education[1], the reconfiguration of the public higher education institutions was undertaken in order to result in rationalisation of programmes, to encourage collaboration between institutions, to enhance responsiveness, to build capacity and to refocus institutions with new institutional identities.