The HoD meeting will take place on Wednesday, 18^th July 2024 at 13h30 at the Court Yard hotel. HoD’s, subject heads and HoD representatives are encouraged to attend.

AGENDA

1. Welcome: Sue Petratos (SACLA 2024 conference co-chair) – 13:30
2. Attendance register
3. Minutes of HOD meeting held at SACLA 2023
4. Staff matters – 13:45
   1. Vacancies and recruitment of academics
      1. Grow your own timber – How to make it work?
   2. Making leadership positions attractive again - Succession planning in HOD/DOS positions
   3. Workload models used and do they work?
5. Research – 14:15
   1. Motivating staff – Publications and studies, sabbaticals
6. Finances and Infrastructure – 14:35
   1. Departmental finances – shrinking budgets
   2. Departmental facilities – less resources
   3. Third-Stream income (seeing that DHET has cut subsidy by 20%)

15:00 – 15:20 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK

7. Academic and student matters – 15:20
   1. National student numbers
      1. With high student numbers, Is Blended Learning working in favor of staff and/or students?
      2. Decreasing number of post grads – reasons and interventions?
   2. Management of under-prepared students (26% pass rate in required time period)
   3. Impact of AI and ChatGPT on Learning and Teaching
   4. CS/IS/IT Programme changes
   5. Africanisation/Indigenisation/Decolonisation of Computing syllabi
   6. External examiners and moderators
8. Accreditation SACAB – 16:00
   1. Universities planning for accreditation of B Degrees?
   2. Way forward for Diploma Qualifications.
9. General – 16:30
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10. Closing – 16:45

Minutes of the SACLA 2023 HoD meeting

Proposed Agenda

1. Staff workload
2. Vacancies and recruitment of academics
3. The impact of AI and ChatGPT on Learning and Teaching
4. Other topics. Please email Dr Sue Petratos (Sue.Petratos@mandela.ac.za) to include additional topics on the agenda.