The Deputy Minister for Higher Education and Training, Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize, MP, will address a workshop of the Charter for Humanities and Social Sciences on Wednesday, 2 June 2011, at the University of Johannesburg.
The workshop will address the importance of human and social forms of scholarship in South Africa, areas that have increasingly been downplayed as a result of the priority focus on hard and business sciences during the last 15 years.
It has been widely recognised that this downplaying has had a serious effect on the academic enterprise itself and has, more broadly, impacted on the quality of leadership in government and non-governmental institutions, in the university system and in many key social responsibility areas.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
Date: 2 to 3 June 2011
Time: 9h00 to 18h00
Venue: University of Johannesburg School of Tourism and Hospitality, Bunting Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg
Enquiries:
Nonkumbulo Sithole
Tel: 012 312 5067
Cell: 082 301 1441
E-mail: sithole.ns@dhet.gov.za
