Highway Africa Telkom dinner
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-09-05
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7724 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015871
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- Date Issued: 2009-09-05
The challenges of education and development in twenty-first century South Africa
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-08-26
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7753 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015901
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- Date Issued: 2009-08-26
Letter to the new government
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-05-30
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7741 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015888
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- Date Issued: 2009-05-30
Beyond the obsession with skills and towards a discourse of knowledge, skills and attitudes
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-05-23
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7739 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015886
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- Date Issued: 2009-05-23
2009 Rhodes University Graduation ceremonies address
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-04-16
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7744 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015892
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- Date Issued: 2009-04-16
The global economic crisis: Winter of Despair or Spring of Hope
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-04-15
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7740 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015887
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- Date Issued: 2009-04-15
Where leaders learn : facilitating citizenship through service-learning
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-03-24
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7728 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015875
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- Date Issued: 2009-03-24
Rhodes: 2008/2009 and beyond
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-03-15
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7751 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015899
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- Date Issued: 2009-03-15
Retirement farewell address: Mr Tony Long
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-27
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015894
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-27
Untitled letter
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-27
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7750 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015898
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-27
Skills : an overview
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-26
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7738 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015885
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-26
New staff welcome 2009
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-12
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7748 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015896
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-12
VC's welcome at the Rhodes University house committees and sub-wardens workshop
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-04
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7745 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015893
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-04
Welcome address of the Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr Saleem Badat
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-04
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7749 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015897
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-04
Signposts for building a career at Rhodes University: VC's welcome
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-02-03
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7747 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015895
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- Date Issued: 2009-02-03
Abstract: redressing the apartheid legacy of social exclusion : social equity, redress and admission to higher education in democratic South Africa
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7734 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015881
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- Date Issued: 2009
Challenges for South African anthropology in the 3rd Millennium
- Authors: Palmer, Robin C G
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:6111 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008105
- Description: Towards the end of one’s career, there’s a powerful inclination to look backwards instead of forwards. You become more interested in histories, biographies and obituaries; you reflect on your own life and career. It’s not inevitable, and it can be resisted. Marshall McLuhan was well into his 50s – an obscure Canadian Eng Lit academic – when he had his vision of the nature and future of the media and anticipated a ‘global village’ that the Internet has turned into a reality since his death in 1980 (McLuhan and Powers 1989) – but more on that in due course. Cui Bono? At first I gave into the tendency to look back. Initially, for this lecture, I thought to analyse my own career in South Africa in terms of who benefited most from it: South African anthropology and my students … or me. I would call the lecture ‘Cui Bono?’ But then I realised, with Latin tags on the way out, younger colleagues and students in the audience might think I was referring to a traditional Australian greeting (Coo-ee) and an Irish philanthropist pop singer (Bono). The title would be totally mystifying to many until I explained that it meant ‘to whom the good’ – in other words, who benefits? But there were other objections to this project besides the title. Even the most postmodern of reflexive anthropologists would balk at making such a self-assessment – it was not for me to judge. Anyway, I already knew the answer: My career in South Africa has not been impeded by political harassments, imprisonment or conscription. I did make some small negligible contributions to the ‘struggle’ through writing or drawing, and I did some community service, on campus or off in the same way. At a critical stage I assisted with the process that eventually produced a national staff association, now called NTESU. The only price I have paid for these distractions from serious publishing at a critical stage of my career was deservedly slow promotion. I continue to contribute to the community mainly through membership of the older of Grahamstown’s two very active Rotary clubs. It’s all I have time for, but nothing to boast about. In sum, I’ve enjoyed what my long-term colleague and Grahamstown’s Citizen of the Year (another Rotary initiative) Michael Whisson likes to call ‘sheltered employment’ – his typically ironic way of reminding us of how privileged we academics are, doing what we enjoy, in pleasant surroundings, among intelligent colleagues and the cream of our youth, with plenty of flexi-time and opportunities for subsidized travel. And now I have benefited again by being promoted to full professor without sufficiently earning my keep through subsidies on academic outputs. Whatever I might have given back through teaching and administration the net is in my favour, and I am grateful beyond words.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Rhodes University Research Report 2009
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:564 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011966
- Description: [From Introduction] Rhodes University maintained and improved its track record of research performance in 2009, a very pleasing trend given that it came directly after a large increase of accredited publication outputs in 2008 of 20.3%, and a flattening of the growth curve was expected. The increase in accredited publication units for 2009 of 6.4% (from 330.02 units to 350.99 units) is closer to the growth rate for the sector as a whole. This continued increase in research publications was achieved against the backdrop of substantial financial constraints and changes in the funding programmes of the National Research Foundation, a primary source of funding for researchers at Rhodes, which produced significant discontinuities in funding for several established researchers. Our journal output, (which accounts for 86% of our total accredited publishing output for higher education subsidy purposes) grew by 5.1% from 2008 to 2009 (from 287.82 units to 302.64 units). The previous year’s growth was 11.3% in this category. Coupled with Rhodes’s high volume of accredited journal outputs in relation to its size, a very pleasing quality measure was that 81.6% of Journal outputs (amongst the highest proportions in the sector) appeared in international accredited journals. Our output from accredited conference proceedings, (which in 2009 amounted to 7% of our total accredited publishing output) shrunk by 27.5% (from 33.22 units down to 24.07 units) from 2008 to 2009 – but from a small base where more year-on-year variance can be expected. This category had grown by 202% in the preceding year, so the 2009 reduction cannot be taken to represent a trend. The book outputs (which in 2009 amounted to 7% of our total accredited publishing output) increased by 170% – again from a very small base (from 8.89 units up to 24.28 units), where year-on-year variance is expected. This category had grown by 91% in the previous year, but had seen a negative growth of 83% in the year before that. The 2009 growth in this category is a combination of increased submissions, and an improved acceptance rate. The staff responsible for this process in the Research Office, and the researchers who made the submissions, are to be warmly congratulated. I add my warm thanks and congratulations to all of our researchers, funders, collaborators and partners who contributed to the excellent research results of 2009.
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- Date Issued: 2009
HELTASA/SAARDHE Higher Education as a social space : conference welcome
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008-12-01
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7686 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015831
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- Date Issued: 2008-12-01
Address to Parents Evening - 2008
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008-11-06
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7677 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015822
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- Date Issued: 2008-11-06