The Faculty of Education has two newly promoted academic colleagues. From 1 January 2015 onwards the following colleagues are promoted to the level of associate professor.

Prof Ina Joubert from the Department of Early Childhood Education has written multiple book publications, a single author scholarly book and she has published in high ranking international journals (11 articles at the time of application). She has strong international networks in the UK, the USA and Italy. She has presented keynote addresses on a number of occasions and eight postgraduate students have completed their studies under her supervision. She currently supervises and co-supervises another 19 postgraduate students. She has led, and also served as co-investigator, on a variety of funded research projects. She was commended by her external reviewers for the quality of her scholarship in literacy in the foundation phase, as well as her ground breaking work on citizenship studies in children.

Prof Ina Joubert	Prof Pieter du Toit

Prof Pieter du Toit from the Department of Humanities Education is one of South Africa’s leading minds on learning styles and learning and teaching in higher education. At the time of application he had published 15 articles in accredited journals and he had published multiple book chapters in a variety of book publications. He has supervised 28 postgraduate students to completion – many of whom are academics themselves and leaders in their prospective professional fields. Prof Du Toit has presented keynote addresses at major conferences around the globe since the mid-1990s. The PGCHE programme, which he leads, is widely renowned as a superb programme for developing quality teaching and learning in the tertiary sector.