MUT Vice Chancellor, the information provided below are some of details you need to know about the university’s vice chancellor
Who is Dr Duma Enoch Malaza
- Brief profile
- Experience in leading and managing at executive level within the South African higher education system.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on vision and mission‐critical results at institutional level. Expert understanding of all levels of the university’s academic business from institution-wide planning to academic planning and quality assurance, with expert capability to provide institutional leadership and oversight for the University’s academic mission and support functions with cost-effective management of resources, planning and budgeting and quality performance.
- Possesses expert knowledge of global trends shaping higher education and knowledge of the South African higher education policy landscape.
Skills Highlight
- strong leadership capacity
- strategic thinking
- analytical ability
- conceptual thinking
- sound communication skills
- strong interpersonal skills
Core Accomplishments
- Best student awards every year during the years at high school
- High School prefect in the years 1974-1975
- Matriculation with distinctions in Mathematics and Physical Science
- Fulbright scholarship for study in the United States of America
- British Council scholarship for study in the United Kingdom
- National Research Foundation (NRF) recognition as a promising young researcher in 1996
- Leadership role at higher education sector level in the engagement with the National Qualifications Framework
- Acting Vice Chancellor at the University of Transkei January 1999 to March 2000
- Managed the preparations for the Higher Education Quality Committee pilot audit in 2005 at the University of Pretoria
- Founding CEO of Higher Education South Africa, the peak body of the higher education sector
- Built and maintained strategic relations for HESA at national, regional and international levels
- Chair of the Senate Quality Promotion Committee at the Vaal University of Technology.
Previous Experience
- Executive director: Institutional Planning & Governance, UKZN
- Executive director: Institutional Planning & Quality Assurance, VUT
- Director: Institutional Planning, CT
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, WSU
- Professor and Head of Department: Applied Mathematics (University of Limpopo)
Educational qualifications/achievements & Affiliations
Educational qualifications/achievements
- Postdoctoral research, Physics, Universite de Paris XI (ORSAY) – Paris, France (1991)
- Postdoctoral research, Physics, University of Cape Town – Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (1987)
- Ph.D., Physics, Cambridge University – Cambridge, England (1986)
- 1986 Master of Science, Physics, Brown University – Rhode Island, United States of America (1983)
- 1983 Bachelor of Science, Science, University of Fort Hare – Eastern Cape
- 1979 Matric, Matriculation (1976), Tlakula High School, – Springs, Gauteng
Affiliations
- South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR)
- Equity Committee of the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors’ Association (2001-2005)
- South African Institute of Physics (1986-1998)
- South African Mathematical Society (1989-1998)
- Academy of Science of South Africa
- Committee of Heads of Research and Training Organizations (COHORT) representing the Heads of organizations, including Science Councils, in higher education
- National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), Board member (2006 – 2011)
- International Association of Universities 0, Board member (2006-2008)
- Tertiary Education Network (TENET), Board member (2006 – 2012)
- South African Technology Network (SATN), Board member (2008 – 2011)
- Council of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, member of Council (2008 – 2012)
- American Council on Education’s Internationalization Network, a body that advises on international engagement by the ACE and its sister organization Higher Education for Development funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2008-2012)
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