Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (for educational developers)

In 2011 CHERTL began offering a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education focusing specifically on the development of people currently working in higher education institutions in the field of educational or academic development. The aim of this Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, offered at honours level, is to enhance the knowledge and competencies of staff in Teaching and Learning units/centres at universities all over South Africa whose role it is to offer professional development for academic staff as educators in higher education institutions. The purpose of this Diploma is to advance academic developers’ knowledge of higher education as a field of study and to enable them to conceptualise, design and implement formal and informal academic development initiatives appropriate to their specific contexts.

Over the last decade or so CHERTL staff members at Rhodes have developed considerable knowledge and expertise in the field of academic development and particularly academic staff development. A way of sharing this experience is to offer a course for academic developers which will enable them to offer appropriate staff development opportunities for academic staff in their institutions.

The course runs over two years with the participants attending week long block contact sessions on Rhodes campus three or four times a year.

For more information please contact Dr Jo-Anne Vorster (j.vorster@ru.ac.za) or Dr Lynn Quinn (l.quinn@ru.ac.za).