Rhodes University 2010 Graduation Ceremonies Address
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7586 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006577
- Description: From introduction: Most of you who are graduating were born in the late 1980s, a period of great turbulence and social conflict. This was, however, also a time of great optimism for it was clear that apartheid tyranny could no longer continue and had to give way to a new social order. We must take immense pride in the imagination, creativity, ingenuity and courage that we displayed as a people to rid ourselves of tyranny and to fashion our democracy. You are a generation that has been, thankfully, largely spared the horrors, brutality and injustices of apartheid. You are the first generation with the opportunity of living in a society founded on a democratic Constitution that proclaims the commitment to human dignity, the achievement of equality, and the advancement of non-sexism and non-racialism and the human rights and freedoms that are contained in our Bill of Rights.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7586 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006577
- Description: From introduction: Most of you who are graduating were born in the late 1980s, a period of great turbulence and social conflict. This was, however, also a time of great optimism for it was clear that apartheid tyranny could no longer continue and had to give way to a new social order. We must take immense pride in the imagination, creativity, ingenuity and courage that we displayed as a people to rid ourselves of tyranny and to fashion our democracy. You are a generation that has been, thankfully, largely spared the horrors, brutality and injustices of apartheid. You are the first generation with the opportunity of living in a society founded on a democratic Constitution that proclaims the commitment to human dignity, the achievement of equality, and the advancement of non-sexism and non-racialism and the human rights and freedoms that are contained in our Bill of Rights.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Vice-Chancellor's welcoming address 2010
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7590 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006581
- Description: From introduction: Rhodes University, which means, you and I and academics and support staff, exists to serve three purposes. The first is to produce knowledge, so that we can advance understanding of our natural and social worlds and enrich our accumulated scientific and cultural heritage. As a university our second purpose is to disseminate knowledge and to cultivate minds. Our goal is to ensure that you can think imaginatively, “effectively and critically”; that you “achieve depth in some field of knowledge”; that you can critique and construct alternatives, that you can communicate cogently, orally and in writing, and that you have a “critical appreciation of the ways in which we gain knowledge and understanding of the universe, of society, and of ourselves” Our final purpose as a university is to undertake community engagement. On the one hand this involves your voluntary participation in community projects undertaken thorough our Community Engagement office. On the other hand, it involves service-learning, in which through your academic courses you take part “in activities where both the community” and you benefit, “and where the goals are to provide a service to the community and, equally, to enhance (your) learning through rendering this service”
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7590 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006581
- Description: From introduction: Rhodes University, which means, you and I and academics and support staff, exists to serve three purposes. The first is to produce knowledge, so that we can advance understanding of our natural and social worlds and enrich our accumulated scientific and cultural heritage. As a university our second purpose is to disseminate knowledge and to cultivate minds. Our goal is to ensure that you can think imaginatively, “effectively and critically”; that you “achieve depth in some field of knowledge”; that you can critique and construct alternatives, that you can communicate cogently, orally and in writing, and that you have a “critical appreciation of the ways in which we gain knowledge and understanding of the universe, of society, and of ourselves” Our final purpose as a university is to undertake community engagement. On the one hand this involves your voluntary participation in community projects undertaken thorough our Community Engagement office. On the other hand, it involves service-learning, in which through your academic courses you take part “in activities where both the community” and you benefit, “and where the goals are to provide a service to the community and, equally, to enhance (your) learning through rendering this service”
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- Date Issued: 2010
Rhodes University 2009 Graduation Ceremonies Address
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7585 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006575
- Description: From introduction: To be awarded a degree or diploma from Rhodes University entails dedicated endeavour. When you joined us you were told that at Rhodes learning and education is a partnership, a relationship of mutual commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, to the development of expertise and skills, and to the embrace of appropriate values and attitudes. Your graduation is testimony that you have fulfilled your side of the partnership. You have displayed the necessary commitment and willingness to learn, to acquire knowledge and to develop expertise. Your achievement, the fruits of many months and years of toil, is,ultimately, your own great accomplishment.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7585 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006575
- Description: From introduction: To be awarded a degree or diploma from Rhodes University entails dedicated endeavour. When you joined us you were told that at Rhodes learning and education is a partnership, a relationship of mutual commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, to the development of expertise and skills, and to the embrace of appropriate values and attitudes. Your graduation is testimony that you have fulfilled your side of the partnership. You have displayed the necessary commitment and willingness to learn, to acquire knowledge and to develop expertise. Your achievement, the fruits of many months and years of toil, is,ultimately, your own great accomplishment.
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- Date Issued: 2009
The challenges of education and development in twenty-first century South Africa
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006569
- Description: From the introduction: I have chosen to address the theme of The Challenges of Education and Development in the Twenty First Century. This is not only an extremely important theme but also one that is both complex and broad and can be approached in many different ways. With respect to complexity, the concepts of education and development, like the concepts of freedom and democracy, are defined in various ways and have a variety of meanings associated with them. Moreover, notions of education and development are not neutral in that they are embedded in different views of the world and society, including views on what constitutes a just and good society. Further, the choices, policies, actions and practices that are associated with particular conceptions of education and development are not benign in that they have real and differential effects on different social classes and groups in society. , Keynote Address at the 15th Annual Conference of the Headmasters of the Traditional State Boy’s Schools of South Africa’ Queens College, Queenstown, 26 August 2009.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006569
- Description: From the introduction: I have chosen to address the theme of The Challenges of Education and Development in the Twenty First Century. This is not only an extremely important theme but also one that is both complex and broad and can be approached in many different ways. With respect to complexity, the concepts of education and development, like the concepts of freedom and democracy, are defined in various ways and have a variety of meanings associated with them. Moreover, notions of education and development are not neutral in that they are embedded in different views of the world and society, including views on what constitutes a just and good society. Further, the choices, policies, actions and practices that are associated with particular conceptions of education and development are not benign in that they have real and differential effects on different social classes and groups in society. , Keynote Address at the 15th Annual Conference of the Headmasters of the Traditional State Boy’s Schools of South Africa’ Queens College, Queenstown, 26 August 2009.
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- Date Issued: 2009
The role of higher education in society: valuing higher education
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7122 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006571
- Description: From the introduction: Arthur E. Levine, President of the Teachers College of Columbia University, writes that "In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the Yale Report of 1828 asked whether the needs of a changing society required either major or minor changes in higher education. The report concluded that it had asked the wrong question. The right question was, What is the purpose of higher education?" Levine goes on to add that questions related to higher education “have their deepest roots in that fundamental question” and that “faced with a society in motion, we must not only ask that question again, but must actively pursue answers, if our colleges and universities are to retain their vitality in a dramatically different world”. I propose to speak about three issues: the first is about our changing world; the second is about the three purposes of higher education; the third is about what I consider to be the five key roles of higher education. Finally, I want to conclude by making some observations on the sometimes unrealistic expectations of higher education. , HERS‐SA Academy 2009, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Waterfront, Cape Town, 14 September 2009. Stagnant universities are expensive and ineffectual monuments to a status quo which is more likely to be a status quo ante, yesterday’s world preserved in aspic (Ralf Dahrendorf, 2000:106‐7)
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7122 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006571
- Description: From the introduction: Arthur E. Levine, President of the Teachers College of Columbia University, writes that "In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the Yale Report of 1828 asked whether the needs of a changing society required either major or minor changes in higher education. The report concluded that it had asked the wrong question. The right question was, What is the purpose of higher education?" Levine goes on to add that questions related to higher education “have their deepest roots in that fundamental question” and that “faced with a society in motion, we must not only ask that question again, but must actively pursue answers, if our colleges and universities are to retain their vitality in a dramatically different world”. I propose to speak about three issues: the first is about our changing world; the second is about the three purposes of higher education; the third is about what I consider to be the five key roles of higher education. Finally, I want to conclude by making some observations on the sometimes unrealistic expectations of higher education. , HERS‐SA Academy 2009, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Waterfront, Cape Town, 14 September 2009. Stagnant universities are expensive and ineffectual monuments to a status quo which is more likely to be a status quo ante, yesterday’s world preserved in aspic (Ralf Dahrendorf, 2000:106‐7)
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- Date Issued: 2009
Inauguration of Steve Bantu Biko Building
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7583 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006572
- Description: From introduction: Institutional loyalty, especially in the case of a university, does not mean being uncritical and denying historical truths. The inauguration of the Stephen Bantu Biko Building is, therefore, a good occasion for “a critical appreciation of where we” as Rhodes University “come from”. Credit is due to the pioneers who 104 years ago created Rhodes; to those who, under difficult and financially trying conditions, steered its subsequent development; to those who oversaw its maturation from a University College under the auspices of the University of South Africa to a fully-fledged University in 1951, and to the subsequent generations that energetically toiled to produce the Rhodes University of today’s enviable reputation.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7583 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006572
- Description: From introduction: Institutional loyalty, especially in the case of a university, does not mean being uncritical and denying historical truths. The inauguration of the Stephen Bantu Biko Building is, therefore, a good occasion for “a critical appreciation of where we” as Rhodes University “come from”. Credit is due to the pioneers who 104 years ago created Rhodes; to those who, under difficult and financially trying conditions, steered its subsequent development; to those who oversaw its maturation from a University College under the auspices of the University of South Africa to a fully-fledged University in 1951, and to the subsequent generations that energetically toiled to produce the Rhodes University of today’s enviable reputation.
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- Date Issued: 2008
The trajectory, dynamics, determinants and nature of institutional change in post-1994 South African higher education
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006568
- Description: Introduction: The institutional change agenda in post-1994 South African higher education has been extensive in its objects, ambitious in its goals, and far-reaching in nature. Given its scope, it is not possible here to critically analyse change in all its dimensions or in all arenas. Instead, this paper confines itself to analysing the trajectory, dynamics, outcomes and determinants of institutional change in South African higher education since 1994, and concludes with observations on the nature of change. , Higher Education Close Up 4 : University of Cape Town, Breakwater Conference Centre, 26-28 June 2008
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper , text
- Identifier: vital:7120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006568
- Description: Introduction: The institutional change agenda in post-1994 South African higher education has been extensive in its objects, ambitious in its goals, and far-reaching in nature. Given its scope, it is not possible here to critically analyse change in all its dimensions or in all arenas. Instead, this paper confines itself to analysing the trajectory, dynamics, outcomes and determinants of institutional change in South African higher education since 1994, and concludes with observations on the nature of change. , Higher Education Close Up 4 : University of Cape Town, Breakwater Conference Centre, 26-28 June 2008
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- Date Issued: 2008
A preliminary perspective on the Office of the Vice-Chancellor and appeals related to exclusions and admissions
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7644 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015772
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7644 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015772
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- Date Issued: 2007
Address at the opening of the OutRhodes Pride Week, 21 August 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7652 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015780
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7652 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015780
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- Date Issued: 2007
Address at the unveiling of the plaque in memory of Ruth First at the Ruth First residence, Aug 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University , First, Ruth, 1925-1982
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7656 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015784
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- Date Issued: 2007
Address at the unveiling of the plaque in memory of Ruth First at the Ruth First residence, Aug 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University , First, Ruth, 1925-1982
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7656 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015784
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- Date Issued: 2007
Message to the New Zealand Old Rhodian Reunion
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7647 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015775
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7647 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015775
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- Date Issued: 2007
Orientation Week : welcome message from the vice-chancellor Dr Saleem Badat, 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7650 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015778
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7650 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015778
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- Date Issued: 2007
Preface to Rhodes University Research Report, 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7654 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015782
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7654 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015782
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- Date Issued: 2007
Rhodes University : into 2007 and beyond
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7655 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015783
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7655 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015783
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- Date Issued: 2007
Rhodes University Orientation Week : Welcome address of the vice-chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr Saleem Badat, 5 February 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7651 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015779
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7651 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015779
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Rhodes University postgraduates orientation welcome, 9 Feb 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7653 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015781
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7653 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015781
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- Date Issued: 2007
SAIAB extension opening : lunch for the Deputy-Minister of Science and Technology
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7657 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015785
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7657 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015785
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- Date Issued: 2007
Vice Chancellor New staff welcome address, 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7646 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015774
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7646 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015774
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- Date Issued: 2007
Vice Chancellor's message to the Toronto Old Rhodian Reunion
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7648 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015776
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7648 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015776
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Vice Chancellor's Oppidan Newspaper message, 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7649 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015777
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7649 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015777
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