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TRANSFORMATION GOAL 6: Increase Collaborations and Partnerships with
Other Institutional Types to Share Knowledge, Resources, and Assist with
Capacity Building and Articulation.

1. Reviewed Internationalisation Policy and Strategy

As indicated in the 2019/2020 Research & Innovation anchored in pursuits of global research collaborations that
Report, the University is adopting a more comprehensive focus just as sharply on social justice as they do on scientific
approach to internationalisation and has embarked on an discovery.
integrative approach to advancing research, innovation, and
engagement as well as supporting learning and teaching It is an approach that enables the mutual reinforcement of
efforts across the system. The University has developed efforts and gives elasticity to the benefits of research and
and adopted an internationalisation strategy aimed at innovation, thereby ensuring that research initiatives speak
maximising the impact of research in our society, in the directly to the needs of society. This is important if we are to
African continent, and the world. The University is committed deliver on the national and global development imperatives
to engaging in international partnerships that not only serve envisioned in the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, in Africa’s
to optimise research, innovation, and engagement but also blueprint for the transformation of the continent, Agenda
to deliberately advance the requirements of a socially just 2063: The Africa We Want and in South Africa’s National
society. This means that the internationalisation of higher Development Plan 2030.
education must be inherently transformative; it must be

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