Teaching and Learning

Undergraduate

• Ensure complete participation of the academic members of staff in the new core-elective curriculum for the professional degree
• Ensure full participation in the Faculty initiative of Open Education Resources and making ICT the core delivery mode for all teaching and learning
• Reduce formal lecture time by making use of the web-based programmes (ClickUP/Blackboard) to allow for more self-directed study.
• Improve problem solving skills by following a ‘case study approach’.
• Send study guides and course notes for peer-review.
• Increase the awareness and interest in post-graduate training and research amongst undergraduate students through greater involvement in research and community activities and by attracting students to departmental research projects under the envisaged module on Research Methodology in the new undergraduate degree.

Postgraduate

• Attract quality post-graduate student by taking advantage of the large number of potential students interested in wildlife by expanding the cross-cutting “Wildlife and Environmental Health Research Programme” within the department in the fields of Pathology, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Veterinary Public Health.
• Enrol only candidates that have achieved high academic merits in the popular Phytomedicine Programme.
• Market our post-graduate programmes to recruit excellent students.
• Improve supervision, management and monitoring of progress of post-graduate students by making use of Post-doctoral- and Research Fellows to assist with the training and guidance of these students.
• Appoint extraordinary professors/lecturers and other researchers as co-supervisors to assist the academic staff with the guidance and supervision of post-graduate students.

Research