MUT Vice Chancellor, the information provided below are some of details you need to know about the university’s vice chancellor

Brief profile
- Experience in leading and managing at executive level within the South African higher education system.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on vision and mission‐critical results at institutional level. Expert understanding of all levels of the university’s academic business from institution-wide planning to academic planning and quality assurance, with expert capability to provide institutional leadership and oversight for the University’s academic mission and support functions with cost-effective management of resources, planning and budgeting and quality performance.
- Possesses expert knowledge of global trends shaping higher education and knowledge of the South African higher education policy landscape.

Skills Highlight

Core Accomplishments

Best student awards every year during the years at high school
High School prefect in the years 1974-1975
Matriculation with distinctions in Mathematics and Physical Science
Fulbright scholarship for study in the United States of America
British Council scholarship for study in the United Kingdom
National Research Foundation (NRF) recognition as a promising young researcher in 1996
Leadership role at higher education sector level in the engagement with the National Qualifications Framework
Acting Vice Chancellor at the University of Transkei January 1999 to March 2000
Managed the preparations for the Higher Education Quality Committee pilot audit in 2005 at the University of Pretoria
Founding CEO of Higher Education South Africa, the peak body of the higher education sector
Built and maintained strategic relations for HESA at national, regional and international levels
Chair of the Senate Quality Promotion Committee at the Vaal University of Technology.

Previous Experience

Executive director: Institutional Planning & Governance, UKZN
Executive director: Institutional Planning & Quality Assurance, VUT
Director: Institutional Planning, CT
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, WSU
Professor and Head of Department: Applied Mathematics (University of Limpopo)

Educational qualifications/achievements

Postdoctoral research, Physics, Universite de Paris XI (ORSAY) – Paris, France (1991)
Postdoctoral research, Physics, University of Cape Town – Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (1987)
Ph.D., Physics, Cambridge University – Cambridge, England (1986)
1986 Master of Science, Physics, Brown University – Rhode Island, United States of America (1983)
1983 Bachelor of Science, Science, University of Fort Hare – Eastern Cape
1979 Matric, Matriculation (1976), Tlakula High School, – Springs, Gauteng

Affiliations

South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR)
Equity Committee of the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors’ Association (2001-2005)
South African Institute of Physics (1986-1998)
South African Mathematical Society (1989-1998)
Academy of Science of South Africa
Committee of Heads of Research and Training Organizations (COHORT) representing the Heads of organizations, including Science Councils, in higher education
National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), Board member (2006 – 2011)
International Association of Universities 0, Board member (2006-2008)
Tertiary Education Network (TENET), Board member (2006 – 2012)
South African Technology Network (SATN), Board member (2008 – 2011)
Council of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, member of Council (2008 – 2012)
American Council on Education’s Internationalization Network, a body that advises on international engagement by the ACE and its sister organization Higher Education for Development funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2008-2012)