HELM ENGAGE #1
HELM ENGAGE is a new and exciting initiative that gives higher education leaders and managers the kind of information and engagement that they need, ...
Reflections on the WiL programme
The inaugural Women in Leadership (WiL) programme was launched in the middle of a pandemic (September 2020) and was necessarily forced into a virtual ...
HELM Summit Report
In keeping with the spirit of the Summit, HELM decided that the Summit report will not merely be a summary of the many, diverse ...
Bridging troubled waters
Oliver Seale's in-depth study into the nature of deanship in South Africa has recently been published. Entitled Deanship in the Global South: Bridging ...
USAf HELM Summit 2020
Not bouncing back but bouncing forward: South African higher education in 2021 and beyond At the end of a year that has demoralised ...
There is no going back
What if the existing paradigms that cohere our global understanding of higher education are no longer valid? Or, at least, limiting to the point ...
The WiL to power – Addressing gender inequality in HE leadership
Gender inequality within our universities is a pervasive issue permeating higher education across Africa and internationally. Launched by Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM), ...
The HELM programme is lauded as a lifeline to universities’ middle managers
The packed venue made it look like USAf had underestimated attendee numbers. But the group actually included an overflow of individuals who could not ...
“You are not alone,” academic leaders learned at last week’s HELM event in Pretoria
They had come from all four cardinal points of South Africa: the north, south, east and west — and also the centre. Each individual ...
The USAf-ACU symposium in a nutshell
“Disrupt the system,” “flip the model”, “change the rules” – these were just some of the provocative statements heard at a recent symposium on ...