Perspectives on Identifying High Potential Candidates for Higher Education: Transformation or Elitism? 5-7 October 2011

The aim of the conference is to explore perspectives on identifying high potential candidates in Higher Education. Within the Higher Education sector graduate output has become a priority, as it has failed to match the developing needs of South Africa. This is reflected in the shortage of high level skills within the sphere of academia and the workplace.

This conference will therefore address the following objectives:

• Benchmark best local practices with regards to identification, retention and throughput trends of high potential students, especially from marginalised communities.
• Focus on the conditions that must be created within higher
• Education to meet the country’s growing need for appropriate number and mix of graduates from a diverse range of disciplines.
• Disseminate research on experience gained from interventions designed to address the retention and throughput of high potential students.
• Ethical deliberations on the concept of high potential

Keynote speakers and panellists will include:

• Prof Loyiso Nongxa, Achievement Gap – just a legacy of Apartheid?
• Prof Kobus Maree, Optimising the potential of gifted students: The value of life design counselling
• Prof Peter Cleaton-Jones, Thoughts on high potential candidates for higher education (postgraduates) in clinical disciplines
• Prof Craig Soudien, Academic agency among disadvantages students with potential
• Prof Yunus Ballim
• Prof Deborah Eyre
• Andrea Johnson (Carnegie Corporation of New York), Observations from a Ten-Year, Four-Country Initiative to Support Access to Undergraduate Education for African Women

Venue:

Professional Development Hub (PDH)
92 Empire Road (opposite KPMG)
Wits East Campus

Costs: 

Conference fees are sponsored, this is a closed conference and seats are limited, REGISTER NOW