The Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), Prof Funke Omidire, attended the 2023 Education Association of South Africa (EASA) Conference held at the Century City Hotel and Conference Centre in Cape Town from 8 to 11 January 2023. Prof Omidire presented the Chairperson’s Report for 2022 at the EASA Annual General Meeting. As outgoing Chair, she presented the Emerging Researcher Award and Postgraduate awards. She also delivered the welcome address at the Gala Dinner and received the outgoing Chairperson’s award.

This was the first in-person conference held by EASA since the national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the theme of the 2023 conference was ‘Oceans of wisdom, mountains of knowledge, winds of change’. The keynote speakers included Prof Thuli Madonsela from the University of Stellenbosch, Prof Mbulungeni Madiba from the University of Cape Town, Prof Irma Eloff from the University of Pretoria and Prof Piet Van Avermaet from Ghent University in Belgium.

Prof Omidire also chaired a session during which the first presentation, titled ‘Bininj education in the Warddeken homeland of Northern Australia: turning points and new directions’ was co-presented by JG Guenther from the Batchelor Institute, DY Yibarbuk and TJ Guymala from the Nawarddeken The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievements (IEA) held its 9th and final PIRLS2021 National Research Coordinators’ (NRC) meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Academy.

The second presentation, ‘Teachers’ perceptions about leadership: Towards an innovative collaborative teacher leadership development framework for schools’ was co-presented by NJP Smith from Sol Plaatjie University and ED De Klerk from North-West University, and the third and final presentation, ‘Micro-aggressions and the South African teacher’ was presented by CR Karrim from the Management College of Southern Africa.