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Programme Name Leaders for Change

Year Participants Delivery Platform New Delivery Platform Key Milestones

• Face-to-Face Moodle • Modules written
site created for • Annual Seminar
2018 18
student reflections • Annual reflective session at
year end
• Face-to-Face Moodle • Annual Seminar
site used for student • Completion of community work
reflections
2019 24 hours
• Annual reflective session at
year end
• Face-to-Face Moodle • Modules migrated and • Moodle completely
site used for student offered online on Moodle restructured to offer all
2020 148 reflections • Zoom and MS Teams as modules online and to be also
well as other interactive used as a reflective platform for
students
technologies
Going forward, the programme will be offered through a blended delivery platform

3. Enhance Co-Curricular Programmes to Support Integrated Student Learning - Student
Entrepreneurship Development

Student entrepreneurship is one of Nelson Mandela University’s graduate attributes. Given of the ever-increasing unemployment
rates in our country, the importance of enhancing employability and entrepreneurship among our graduates is a key outcome.
The Student Affairs division conceptualised and launched the inaugural Annual Mandela Youth Development Convention
as an intergenerational dialogue to champion youth development and to discuss contemporary challenges facing young
people. The inaugural session successfully laid the foundation for the emergence and fashioning of partnerships with business,
Government, civil society, and young people to advance youth development. In 2020, the convention focused on Young
People as Agents of Own and Collective Development and was hosted online.

To enhance co-curricular programmes to support integrated student learning, the University created a policy framework aimed
at enabling student entrepreneurship. A Student Entrepreneurship Service Desk was established to create an ecosystem
aimed at championing, enabling, and supporting the development of student entrepreneurship and forging collaborations,
linkages, networks, mobilise development support, and creating an internal and external environment amongst student-
entrepreneurs and relevant agencies. The establishment of 3 Student Entrepreneurship Societies - ENACTUS, Ecosystem
and LEAP - form part of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem.

In 2020, the University had 107 student entrepreneurs, with the majority (58) associated with on- and off-campus residences
while the remainder (49) are day students. These students are at various phases of entrepreneurship development - about 27
are at entrepreneurial intentions phase, 57 at ideation and start-up phase and 23 at existing and growth phase. In 2020,
a total of 197 students participated in the Student Entrepreneurship Week themed “be fearless in the pursuit of what sets
your soul on fire” was hosted during Women’s Month and took place over a period of five weeks through weekly live webinars.
In addition, an online Foundational Course in Entrepreneurship was offered to 22 student entrepreneurs with business ideas or
early startups in partnership with the Whadwani Foundation.

The University continues to be recognised – particularly by the national leadership of Entrepreneurship Development in Higher
Education - as a leader in this area in the sector. The University is especially recognised for putting in place institutional policy
and capacity to enable support, enable, catalyse, and nurture student entrepreneurship. Going forward, these foundations will
be consolidated and expanded.

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