WERA supports early career academics – UP academic receives award

Posted on October 22, 2019

Celeste Combrinck was the first recipient of the WERA Visiting Researcher Award. The award is a joint collaboration by the World Education Research Association (WERA) and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) to contribute to the advancement of...

Flocking: How sharing resources lays the foundation of African Prosperity

Posted on October 22, 2019

Nomonde Ntsundwana, a teacher at a Nelson Mandela Metropol primary school, has taken her role of educator beyond the classroom. As a champion of nutrition and school gardens, she leads a strong team of teachers, students and community members that supports the production of nutritious food...

University of Pretoria Resilience Dialogue & Ideas Lab Series: Transdisciplinary Flocking: Afrocentric Resilience Knowledge to Address Global Challenges

Posted on October 16, 2019

Prof Tawana Kupe, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, presided over a Resilience Dialogue and Ideas Lab at Future Africa on 14 October 2019. The panel was titled Transdisciplinary Flocking: Afrocentric Resilience Knowledge to Address Global Challenges and was informed...

Mail & Guardian Article on Flocking

Posted on September 17, 2019

CSR Director, Liesel Ebersöhn, recently wrote an article on flocking

Director, Centre for the Study of Resilience re-elected as Secretary General for WERA

Posted on August 30, 2019

Professor Liesel Ebersöhn (Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience, University of Pretoria) has been elected to a second four-year term as Secretary General for the World Education Research Association (WERA).

Deconstructing Ubuntu: UP academic launches book on the daily successes of Southern Africans despite challenges

Posted on August 27, 2019

A book penned by University of Pretoria (UP) academic, Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience in the Faculty of Education, aims to deconstruct the idea of Ubuntu and ultimately shed some light on why we behave the way we do and why we are able to do better...

Director, Centre for the Study of Resilience re-elected as Secretary General for WERA

Posted on April 05, 2018

Professor Liesel Ebersöhn (Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience, University of Pretoria) has been elected to a second four-year term as Secretary General for the World Education Research Association (WERA).

A Quality Talk South Africa (QTSA) planning meeting 2018

Posted on March 23, 2018

A Quality Talk South Africa (QTSA) planning meeting 2018