Facilitator: Professor Nonnie Botha is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela University. She has served the academic community at a number of national universities and held management positions at several of them, e.g. Dean of the Faculty of Education across seven campuses at the then Vista University, Head of the Department of Postgraduate Studies at the then UPE and Director of the School for Education Research and Engagement at NMMU. She contributed to the shaping of the incorporation of Vista University into UPE and, subsequently, the merger of PE Technikon with UPE. She currently works on contract for Mandela University, other universities and the NRF from time to time.
She has supervised the research of a significant number of Masters’ and Doctoral students and has published widely in scholarly journals and books over the years. Her research and publications cover topics ranging from school mathematics, student identities, mergers in higher education and research trends, to Africanising the higher education curriculum, postgraduate supervision and interculturalism in higher education. Her current research interests involve postgraduate policies, practices, and pedagogies as well as higher education curriculum and management.