VC_StateCampusReport2016

Female Student Residences
Sibasa Staff Houses Phase 1 A

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Sibasa Staff Houses Phase 2
Student Entertainment Centre

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Swimming Pool
Sports Fields Change Rooms

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Milking Parlor and Abattoir Building

Main Gate

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List of Abbreviations

A

ACRICE : African Conference on Research in Chemistry Education

ACUHO I-SAC : Association of College and University Housing Officers International

– South African Chapter

ABET : Adult Basic Education and Training

ABSA : Amalgamated Banks of South Africa

ADSL : Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADHD : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADU : Academic Development Unit and Training Authority.
AESOP : A European South African Partnership in Heritage and Past

AGSA (Erasmus Mundus Mobility Consortium
AGM : Auditor General of South Africa
AISA : Annual General Meeting
AJPHERD : Africa Institute of South Africa
ANC : African Journal of Physical Health Education Recreation and Dance
: African National Congress

ANIE : African Network of International Education
APC : Academic Planning Committee
APN : Access Point Network
APRM : African Peer Review Mechanism
ARC : Agricultural Research Council
ASR : Automatic Speech Recognition

AU : African Union
AZASCO : Azanian Student Congress

B

BANKSETA : The Banking Sector Education and Training Authority

BIUST : Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)

BLA : Black Lawyers Association

BLASC : Black Lawyers Association Student Chapter

BEBS : Bachelor of Environmental and Biodiversity Science

BED : Bachelor of Education

BED (FET : Bachelor of Education (Further Education and Training)

BED (FP) : Bachelor of Education (Foundation Phase)

BED (IP) : Bachelor of Education (Intermediate Phase)

BED (SP) : Bachelor of Education (Senior Phase)

BED(SP & FET) : Bachelor of Education (Senior Phase & Further Education and Training)

BEDFP : Bachelor of Education Foundation Phase

BIS : Business Information Systems
BMI : Body Mass Index
Botho : Botho University, Botswana

C
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CA : Chartered Accountant
CAES : Makerere’s Colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

CBMS : Community-Based Monitoring Systems
CCMA : Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
CEAAR : Centre of Excellence in Animal Assisted Reproduction CEAAR
CEO : Chief Executive Officer
CEIA : Career Exhibition and Information Association of South Africa
CETA : Construction Education and Training Authority
CHE : Council on Higher Education
CHETL : Centre for Higher Education Teaching and Learning
CI : Corporate Identity
Cllr : Councilor
CSIR : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CoNAS : Makerere University’s College of Natural Sciences
COMBO : Collaboration Mentoring BarCamp OER (Consortium for Erasmus+

CoVAB application coordinated by DHBW)
: Makerere University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal
CPUT Resources & BioSecurity
CSIR : Cape Peninsula University of Technology
CTC : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
DSU : Community Training Centre
: Disability Student Unit
D
DAAD : German Academic Exchange Service Deutscher
Akademischer ustauschdienst
DAFF
DASO : Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
DBE : Democratic Alliance Student Organization
DBSA : Department of Basic Education
DBT : Development Bank of South Africa
DED : Duxburry Braille Translator
DHA : Doctor in Education
DHBW : Department of Home Affairs
DHS : Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heidenheim
DHET : Department of Human Settlement
DNRM : Department of Higher Education and Training
DST : Diploma in Natural Resource Management
DSTV : Department of Science and Technology
CSIR : Digital Satellite Television
DSU : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
DU : Disability Student Unit
: Student Development Unit
E
EAIE : European Association for International Education
EB : Editorial Board
ECE : Early Childhood Education
ECD
ECE TP : Early Childhood Development

: Early Childhood Education Teaching Practice

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ECS : English Communication Skills
ECSA : Engineering Council of South Africa
EFF : Economic Freedom Fighters
EM2SA : Erasmus Mundus Action 2 South Africa
ETP : Early Teaching Practice
ECE TP
ETDP-SETA : Early Childhood Education Teaching Practice

ESKOM : Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education
ESRC and Training Authority
ETH
EU : Electricity Supply Commission
EUROSA : Economic and Social Research Centre
: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
EUROSA + : European Union
EXCO : Name of a consortium of Universities in Europe and derived

from South Africa
: Name of the follow-up consortium to EUROSA
: Executive Committee

F : Federation of African Chemical Societies
FACS : Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network
FANRPAN : Focus Group
FGD : Further Education and Training
FET : Foundation Phase
FP : Full Time Equivalent
FTE : Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectrometer
FT-IR : French-South African Institute on Agriculture
F’SAGRI

G

GBH : Grievous Bodily Harm

GCIS : Government Communications and Information

Systems

GC X GC TOF-MS: Gas Chromatography Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer
GIS : Geographical Information System

GIZ : German Society for International Cooperation

GRP : Graduate Recruitment Programs
GSU : Georgia State University

H : Hochschule fuer Angewandte Wissenschaft and Kuenste,
HAWK Germany

HBUs : Historically Black Universities

HDI : Historically Disadvantaged Institution
HEAIDS : Higher Education AIDS
HELM : Higher Education Leadership Management
HELTASA : Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa
HESA : Higher Education South Africa
HEMIS : Higher Education Management Information Systems
HEQC : Higher Education Quality Committee
HEQSF : Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework
HIV : Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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HLTRG : Human Language Technology Research Group
HR
HSRC : Human Resources
HSS : Human Sciences Research Council
HOD : Human and Social Sciences
HWR : Head of Department
: Hydrology and Water Resources
I
IAU : International Association of Universities
IBM : International Business Machines
ICAS
ICASA : International Convention of Asia Scholars
ICT : Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
ICTERM : Information and Communication Technology
: International Conference on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative
IDP
IEC Medicine
IEASA : Integrated Development Plan
IHL : Independent Electoral Commission
IKS : International Education Association of South Africa
IMPALA : International Humatarian Law
: Indigenous Knowledge System
IP : Internationalisation and Modernisation Programme for Academics,
IPA Leaders and Administrators (Erasmus+ capacity Buil ding project
IPQA coordinated by the University of Antwerp)
IRD : Intermediate phase
IT : Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
ITFs : Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance
ITS : Institute for Rural Development
ISSA : Information Technology
IUPAC : Indigenous Traditional Foods
: Integrated Tertiary Software
J : Information Security South Africa
JAWS : International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
JES
JPC : Job Access with Speech
: Journal of Educational Studies
L : Jefferson Public Citizens Programme, an UVA programme for
LAS Student- led projects
LEDET
LGS : Liquid Automation Systems
LGSETA : Limpopo Economic Development, Environment and Tourism
LMS : Living Green Society
LSSE : Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority
: Learner Management System
K : Lecturer Survey of Student Engagement
KHLIM
KNP : Catholic University College Limburg, Belgium
: KNP Kruger National Park

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M : Masters of Business Administration
MBA : Megabytes per second
Mbps : Member of Executive Council
MEC : Masters in Education
MED : Mentoring Interviewing
MI : Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya
MMUST : Memorandum of Agreement
MoA : Memorandum of Understanding
MoU : Masters in Public Health
MPH : Masters in Public Management
MPM : Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications
MRTEQ : Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
MSU

N : National Astrophysics and Space Science Program
NAASP
: South African National Commission for UNESCO
NATCOM : Next Generation of Academic Programme
nGAP : Non-Governmental Organisation
NGO : National Institute for Human and Social Sciences
NIHSS
: National Intellectual Property Management Office
NIPMO : National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund
NLDTF : Natural Language Processing
NLP
: Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan University
NMMU : National Research Foundation
NRF : National Skills Fund
NSF : National Student Financial Aid Scheme
NSFAS : National School Nutritional Programme
NSNP : National Science Week
NSW : Nuffic Netherlands Education Support Offices
Nuffic-Neso : New Venture Creation
NVC : None Visual Desk Top Access
NVDA : North West University
NWM : National Youth Development Agency
NYDA

O : Office for International Education, NMMU
OIE : Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe
OWL : University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen Lippe
OWL
: Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania
P : Problem based learning
PASMA : Peoples Friendship University
PBL : Postgraduate Certificate in Education
PFUR : Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education
: Doctor of Philosophy
PGCE : Programme Qualifications Mix
PGDHE
PHD
PQM

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PURCO : Purchasing Consortium South Africa
PwC : PricewaterhouseCoopers

R : Registrar’s Academic Committee
RAC : Risk and Health Assessment Program for Exchange Server
RAP : Research and Publication Committee
RPC : Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture
RUFORUM

S : South African Association of Campus Health Services
SAACHS : South Africa Agricultural and Life Sciences Deans’ Association
SAALDSA : Southern African Association for Institutional Research
SAAIR : South African Agency for Science and Technology
SAASTA : South African Broadcasting Corporation
SABC : South African Brewery, South African Football Association
SAB SAFA : South African Criminal Records Centre
SACRC : South African Development Community
SADC : Southern African Folklore Society
SAFOS : South African–German Energy
SAGEN
: South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum
SAHECEF : South African Human Rights Commission
SAHRC : South African Humanities Deans' Association
SAHUDA : South African Institute of Chartered Account
SAICA : Student Academic Mentoring Programme
SAMP : South African National Biodiversity Institute
SANBI : South African National Research Network
SANReN : South African National Roads Agency Limited
SANRAL : South African Plant Institution
SAPI : South African Plant Institution
SAPI : South African Police Services
SAPS : South African Post-Secondary Education
SAPSE : South African Qualification Authority
SAQA : Student Academic Mentoring Programme
SAMP : South African Revenue Services
SARS : Braille and South African Sign Language
SASL : South African Student Congress
SASCO : South African Spots
SASS : South African Social Security Agency
SASSA : South African Survey of Student Engagement
SASSE : Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority
SASSETA : South African Square Kilometer Array Advancement
SASKA : Southern African Universities Radiometer Network
SAURN : Student Counselling and Career Development Unit
SCCDU : Student Christian Organization
SCO : Social Work
SCW : Small Enterprise Development Agency
SEDA : Scanning Electron Microscope
SEM : Software Engineering Research and Practice
SERP : Social Responsibility Fund
SFR
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SIFE : Student In Free Enterprise
SIS : Integration with Student Information System
SSAUF : Staffing South Africa University Framework
SSAU-DP : Staffing South Africa University Development Programme
SLP : Short Learning Programme
SMC : Senior Management Committee
SNOWS : Scientific Network Outcomes and Water Sanitation
SRC : Student Representative Council
STI : Sexual Transmitted Infection
StPU : St Petersburg University, Russia
SWOT : Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat

T : Teaching Assistants
TAs : Technical Cooperation Expert
TCE : TEACH South Africa
TEACH SA : Tertiary Education Linkages Project
TELP : Foundation Phase
TEF
: Technology Innovation Agency
TIA : Teaching Practice
TP : Technology and Innovation Support Center
TISC : Text-to-Speech Synthesis
TTS
: Tshwane University of Technology
TUT : Technical Vocational Education and Training
TVET
: University of Venda Agriculture Alumni Association
U : Univen Commercial Centre
UAAA : Univen Centre for Continuing Education
UCC : Catholic University College Leuven-Limburg
UCCE : University College of Social Sciences in Czestochowa
UCLL : University of Cape Town
UCSS : Univen Consultancy Unit
UCT : Univen Community Radio
UCU : Univen Debating Fraternity
UCR : University of Fort Hare
UDF : University of the Free State
UFH : Universal Greening Organisation
UFS : UNIVEN Innovative Growth Company
UGO : University of KwaZulu-Natal
UIGC : University of Limpopo
UKZN : University of South Africa
UL : University of Venda
UNISA : Univen Income Generation Centre
UNIVEN : United Kingdoom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UIGC : University of Kwazulu Natal
UK : United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and
UKZN
UNESCO Culture
: United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIDO : University of Limpopo
UNIL

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UNISA : University of South Africa

UNISU : Union of International Students at UNIVEN

UNISU : Univen International Students Union

UNIVEN : University of Venda

UNIVENCR : Univen Community Radio

UP : University of Pretoria

UUNIAEA/FAO: United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency / Food

and Agricultural Organization

USA : United of State of America

USAID : U.S. Government agency

UVA : University of Virginia

UWC : University of Western Cape

V : Vice Chancellor Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award
VC Award : Vhembe Fresh Produce Market
VFPM : Flemish University Council Funding Agency
VLIR-UOS : Vuwani Science Resource Centre
VSRC : Vaal University of Technology
VUT

W : University of the Witwatersrand
WITS : Water Research Council
WRC : Work Integrated Learning
WIL : University of Warwick
Warwick : World Intellectual Property Organisation
WIPO : Walter Sisulu University
WSU : Women University in Africa
WUA : Wageningen University of Research, Netherlands
WUR
: Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation
Z : Zukunftszentrum Holzminden-Höxter
ZBC : Innovation Centre Holzminden-Höxter-Zukunftszentrum Holzminden-
ZZHH
ZZSH Höxter

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