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CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS 5
INTRODUCTION 6
TRANSFORMATION – INSTITUTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY MODEL 7
METHODOLOGY 7
TRANSFORMATION GOAL 1: Achieve Academic Excellence Through Curriculum Transformation to Ensure
that it is Socially Relevant and Responsive to the Development Needs of the Country. 9
1. ‘Curriculum Framework’ for Curriculum Renewal Efforts 9
2. Enabling Curriculum Development – Digital Transformation 9
3. Strategic Development Trajectories 5
3.1 Ocean Sciences 12
3.2 Medical School 14
3.3 Revitalising the Humanities 15
TRANSFORMATION GOAL 2: Achieve Academic Excellence Through Broadening Student Access,
Particularly Those with Disabilities and from Historically Disadvantaged Groups. 17
1. Diversify the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Student Profiles 17
2. Graduate Profile 20
3. Broadening Access 20
TRANSFORMATION GOAL 3: Ensure the improvement of student success/throughput, particularly those
with disabilities and from historically disadvantaged groups. 23
1. Improve Student Success Rates 23
2. Improved Throughput Rates 23
3. Student’s Academic Excellence 24
4. Targeted Undergraduate Student Success Interventions 24
5. Postgraduate Success Interventions 25
6. Language Policy 25
7. Enhance Teaching and Learning Environment for Students with Disabilities 26
TRANSFORMATION GOAL 4: Ensure the Improvement of Holistic Student Support (Academic,Psychosocial,
Financial, Infrastructure) to Enable Increased Student Success/Throughput, Particularly Those from Histori-
cally Disadvantaged Groups. 27
1. Student Representative Council 27
2. Co-Curricular Student Leadership Programmes 27
3. Enhance Co-Curricular Programmes to Support Integrated Student Learning - Student 27
Entrepreneurship Development
4. Safe, Stable, Responsive and Secure Environment that is Conducive to Learning, Growth and Success 28
5. Sport Transformation 28
6. Student Transport 28
7. Improve Nutrition Status of Students 28
8. Student Psychosocial Wellness 28
9. Integrated Financial Aid, Scholarship and Bursary Administrative Processes, and Systems 29
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10. Increased Provision of Student Accommodation
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11. Estates and Facilities Management
TRANSFORMATION GOAL 5: Ensure Implementation of Programmes and Measures Designed to Accelerate
Focused Recruitment, Capacity Development, Greater Representation and Retention of Designated and
Underrepresented Groups in the Academic Workforce, especially Senior Academic Positions. 32
1. Diversification of academic workforce 32

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