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University of Fort Hare Distance Learning

The Open University has been working with the University of Fort Hare on its Distance Education Project since 1997, helping to develop its innovative distance education programme for primary teachers in the Eastern Cape. Recently the OU has been involved in researching the impact of this programme on teachers’ perceptions of their practice and their classroom practice.

This case study explores the context in which the programme was developed, the philosophy that underpinned its development, its structure, materials and the role played by the Open University. Using preliminary findings of teacher‐learner perceptions of the programme, the case study examines the effectiveness of the teacher support and their responses to the programme. Initial findings from questionnaires and semi‐structured interviews highlight the cohesive and holistic impact of the programme. The focus on context and culture in developing the programme is seen as significant by all teacher‐learners in challenging and motivating different ways of thinking about their teaching, learning and their practice.

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR BACHELOR’S DEGREES

• Minimum of level 4 in English 1st Additional Language or

• Minimum of level 3 in English Home Language.

• Minimum of Level 4 or better in four 20-credit subjects from the designated list, excluding Life Orientation.

QUALIFICATIONMINIMUM STATUTORY ENTRY REQUIREMENT Bachelors degreePass NSC with an achievement rating of 4(50-59%) or more in 4 (four) subjectsDiplomaPass NSC with an achieving rating of 3(40-49% )or more in 4 (four) subjects

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR MATURE AGE APPLICANTS

Mature age applicants (turning 23 years during year of registration), who have met the requirements in bullets 1 – 3 above, qualify for admission to main stream programmes. They need to apply for conditional exemption from HESA.

Designated Subjects

Applicants who wish to enroll for a degree programme need to ensure that four of their seven subjects are from the designated list.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Senior Certificate (pre-2008)

A candidate is expected to possess a minimum level of proficiency in English language. A pass mark of at least E symbol on SG is considered to be sufficient. A pass mark of at least an F symbol on HG English 1st language is also considered to be sufficient.

A Matriculation Exemption or Further Education and Training Certificate.

A standard qualification to study for a degree is a Matriculation endorsement or equivalent.

CN SC

S Symbol achieved inGrade 12 subjectsGrade of Grade 12 subjectsHGSGA86B75C64D53E42F31

How to calculate your minimum admission point score (APS)

NSC	NSC%	PS	APS %
7	80-89	8	90-99
6	79-79	7	80-89
5	60-69	6	79-79
4	50-59	5	60-69
3	40-49	4	50-59
2	30-39	3	40-49
10	-290	2	30-39
			0-29

ARE YOU A INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT WITH FOREIGN SCHOOL-LEAVING?

Undergraduate

All applicants with non-South African School-leaving require a certificate of exemption from the Matriculation Board of South Africa for admission into an undergraduate qualification. For more information regarding the Matriculation Exemptions please visit the Matriculation Board website on www.he-enrol.ac.za

The University of Fort Hare will also submit applications to the Matriculation Board on behalf of the applicant on submission of the following:

Form M30E (also available from the matriculation board website); Copies of educational qualification (certified at the University); Copy of Passport or birth certificate (certified at the University);

Exemption application fee charged at R400.00 (payable at the University); and

Sworn English translation of documents required where applicable.

Postgraduate

All applicants with non-South African qualifications are required to have their qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). For more information regarding evaluation of qualifications please visit the SAQA website: www.saqa.org.za

Student selection and admissions process

1. Students receive application forms from the Students Registration Office through the post/contact.

2. These are completed and returned to the Students Registration Office and get sorted per-Faculty.

3. Then the faculty selection committee (Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning, Faculty Manager, HODs and Administrators) convenes to do the selection.

4. Admission is done on merit, using the Swedish point system.High scores are considered first in chronological order

For interview programmes students are invited for presentations prior to selection.The current matrics are provisionally accepted pending their matric final results and availability for admission into programmes, plus NBT results.The application forms are checked and signed by the Faculty Manager according to the admission status. Once the forms are signed, they are given back to the Students Registration Office to capture the status which is then communicated to the students as backup.The Faculty keeps records of the accepted students as backup. Wait listed students are considered after registration of accepted students.Accepted students get notification from the Students Registration Office.

ENQUIRIES

Alice Campus Tel.: 040 602 2016 / 2053/ 2122/ 2174/ 2281

East London Campus Tel.: 043 704 7155 / 7266 / 7004 / 7139

admissions@ufh.ac.za

University of Fort Hare

The University of Fort Hare (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

It was a key institution of higher education for Africans from 1916 to 1959 when it offered a Western-style academic education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa, creating an African elite. Fort Hare alumni were part of many subsequent independence movements and governments of newly independent African countries.

In 1959, the university was subsumed by the apartheid system, but it is now part of South Africa’s post-apartheid public higher education system. It is the alma mater of well-known people including Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Robert Sobukwe, Oliver Tambo, and others.

History

Union Hall at the University of Fort Hare

Originally, Fort Hare was a British fort in the wars between British settlers and the Xhosa of the 19th century. Some of the ruins of the fort are still visible today, as well as graves of some of the British soldiers who died while on duty there.

During the 1830s, the Lovedale Missionary Institute was built near Fort Hare.^[4]^: 419 James Stewart, one of its missionary principals, suggested in 1878 that an institution for higher education of black students needed to be created.^[4]^: 419 However, he did not live to see his idea put into operation^[4]^: 419 when, in 1916, Fort Hare was established with Alexander Kerr as its first principal. D.D.T Jabavu was its first black staff member who lectured in Latin and African languages.^[4]^: 419 In accord with its Christian principles, fees were low and heavily subsidised. Several scholarships were also available for indigent students.

Fort Hare had many associations over the years before it became a university in its own right. It was initially called the South African Native College or Fort Hare Native College^[5] and attached to the University of South Africa.^[4]: 419 It then became the University College of Fort Hare and associated with Rhodes University.^[4]: 419 With the introduction of apartheid, higher educational institutions in South Africa were strictly segregated along racial lines; blacks had previously gone to classes with Indians, coloureds and a few white students. From 1953 the school became part of the Bantu education system, and with the passage of the Promotion of Bantu Self Government Act in 1959, it was nationalized and segregated along racial and tribal lines, and teaching in African languages rather than English was encouraged.^[6] Fort Hare became a black university in its own right in 1970, strictly controlled by the state government.

Centenary logo in 2016

It was a key institution in higher education for black Africans from 1916 to 1959. It offered a Western-style academic education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa, creating a black African elite. Fort Hare alumni were part of many subsequent independence movements and governments of newly independent African countries.^[6] Amongst those who studied at Fort Hare who later became leaders of their countries were Kenneth Kaunda, Seretse Khama, Yusuf Lule, Julius Nyerere, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

Liberation movement archives

Leading opponents of the apartheid regime who attended included Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki and Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Robert Sobukwe of the Pan Africanist Congress, and Desmond Tutu. Mandela, who studied Latin and physics there for almost two years in the 1940s, left the institution as a result of a conflict with a college leader. He later wrote in his autobiography: “For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one.”^[6]

After the end of apartheid, Oliver Tambo became chancellor of the university in 1991.^[6] In 2005, the University of Fort Hare was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Gold for “Exceptional contribution to Black academic training and leadership development on the African continent.”^[7]

University

Faculty of Law

The university’s main campus is located in Alice near the Tyhume River. It is in the Eastern Cape Province about 50 km west of King William’s Town, in a region that for a while was known as the “independent” state of Ciskei. In 2011, the Alice campus had some 6400 students. A second campus at the Eastern Cape provincial capital of Bhisho was built in 1990 and hosts a few hundred students, while the campus in East London, acquired through incorporation in 2004, has some 4300 students.

The university has five faculties (Education, Law, Management & Commerce, Science & Agriculture, Social Sciences & Humanities) all of which offer qualifications up to the doctoral level.

Strategic plans

Following a period of decline in the 1990s, Derrick Swarts was appointed vice-chancellor with the task of re-establishing the university on a sound footing.^{[citation needed]} The programme launched by Swarts was the UFH Strategic Plan 2000. The plan was meant to address the university’s financial situation and academic quality standards simultaneously. The focus of the university was narrowed and consequently five faculties remained:

Education
Science and agriculture
Social sciences and humanities
Management and commerce
Law

Sports grounds and swimming pool

Fort Hare De Beers Art Gallery

Further narrowing the focus, 14 institutes were founded to deal with specific issues, such as the UNESCO Oliver Tambo Chair of Human Rights. Through their location the institutes have access to poor rural areas, and consequently emphasis is placed on the role of research in improving quality of life and economic growth (and especially sustainable job creation). Among the outreach programmes, the Telkom Centre of Excellence maintains a “living laboratory” of four schools at Dwesa on the Wild Coast, which have introduced computer labs and internet access to areas that until 2005 did not even have electricity.^{[citation needed]} The projects at Dwesa focus research on Information and Communication for Development (ICD).

Incorporation of Rhodes University’s former campus in East London in 2004 gave the university an urban base and a coastal base for the first time. Subsequent growth and development on this campus have been rapid. Initial developments of the new multi-campus university were guided by a three-year plan; currently the university is following the new “Strategic Plan 2009-2016”, set to take the institution to its centennial year.

Notable alumni

Name	DoB – DoD	Notes
Dr. Maurice Robert Joseph Peters	23 July 1899 – 31 August 1959	First South African Indian Medical Doctor, graduated MBChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1926.
Milner Langa Kabane	18 June 1900 – 1945	Educator, First Native Principal at Lovedale College, South African Politician, S.A. Bill of Rights pioneer: 1943.^[8]^[9]^[10]
Z. K. Matthews	20 October 1901 – 11 May 1968	Lectured at Fort Hare from 1936 to 1959
Archibald Campbell Jordan	30 October 1906 – 20 October 1968	Novelist, pioneer of African studies
Govan Mbeki	9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001	South African politician
Yusuf Lule	10 April 1912 – 21 January 1985	Interim president of Uganda 1979
Cedric Phatudi	27 May 1912 – 7 October 1987	Former Chief Minister of Lebowa 1972–1987
Kaiser Matanzima	15 June 1915 – 15 June 2003	President of bantustan Transkei
Mary Malahlela	2 May 1916 – 8 May 1981	First female black doctor in South Africa
Oliver Tambo	27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993	African National Congress activist, expelled while doing his second degree
Nelson Mandela	18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013	Former President of South Africa; expelled and later attended the University of the Witwatersrand but did not graduate
Charles Njonjo	23 January 1920 –2 January 2022^[11]	Former Attorney General of Kenya and Former Minister of Justice in Kenya
Lionel Ngakane	17 July 1920 – 26 November 2003	South African film maker
Seretse Khama	1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980	First President of Botswana
Julius Nyerere	19 July 1922 – 14 October 1999	First President of Tanzania

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