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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.

This goal should be read in conjunction with Goal 8, which meeting the target submitted (see Table 11). The
is linked to implementing the employment equity plan and provisions by DHET to increase diversity in the academy
targets. via the Next Generation of Academics Programme
(nGAP) appointments have assisted our university, with
1. Diversification of the academic 17 appointments in 2021, relative to 14 appointments in
workforce 2020, up 6.3 percent relative to the 2021 target. The full-
time equivalent student: staff (senior lecturer equivalent)
The number of staff with doctoral qualifications increased ratio remained constant at 27:1 in 2020 and 2021, meeting
to 46 percent in 2021, relative to 45 percent in 2020, the target for 2021.
TABLE 11:
STAFF PROFILE ACCORDING TO HIGHEST QUALIFICATION LEVEL, NUMBER OF NGAP
APPOINTMENTS AND STUDENT: STAFF RATIO FOR 2021 RELATIVE TO 2019 AND 2020

KEY PERFORMANCE AREA HEMIS HEMIS 2020 HEMIS YEAR ON 2021 ACTUAL
2019 AUDITED 2021 2ND YEAR TARGET VERSUS
AUDITED SUBMISSION CHANGE TARGET
VARIANCE
C: Staff profile
Percentage of staff with doctoral degrees 45% 45% 46% 2.2% 46% 0.0%
Number of NGAP staff 12 14 17 21.4% 16 6.3%
Ratio of FTE students to FTE instructional or 27:1 27:1 27:1 0.0% 27:1 0.0%
research staff
*FTE - Full-time equivalent
* Key:
■ Target met or exceeded
■ Trend needs to be monitored
■ Target not met and corrective action required
■ Data not final and performance indicator will still improve

We continue to face the challenges of a small pool of Table 12 provides the profile of the academic employees
candidates in scarce skills disciplines. Affected faculties according to population group and gender.
have a growing group of early career academics who Academic employees make up 28 percent of the total
need to be nurtured and developed to become the next number of permanent employees, with White academics
generation of academic leaders. In transforming the equity continuing to make up a disproportional number of the
profile of academic employees with doctoral degrees, the academy, constituting 46 percent of the total permanent
University has leveraged national initiatives from the NRF academic employees, which equates to approximately
and DHET to ensure they receive the support and training four times the national economically active target for this
needed to attain higher degrees. population group), relative to 54 percent constituting
African, ‘Coloured’ and Indian employees.

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