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UKZN Mathematics is No.1!A recent analysis by Thomson Reuters using their “InCites”

research analysis tool has affirmed the leading role Mathematics at UKZN continues to play in the tertiary education

environment locally and internationally.

UKZN was rated number one in the country among all Mathematics disciplines in the country over the past 10 years. It also compares favourably to such disciplines at other international universities.

When it comes to research output, UKZN wrote the book on it.

1146.51 * times. Results of the recent Department of Higher Education and Training report on the 2010 Institutional research publication outputs, shows

that we published 1146.51* research output units contributing 11.8%* of the country’s total research output (the 3rd highest in the country)

- with output per staff member 105%* of the national norm. In addition, we produced the highest number of books published

by South Africa’s 23 major universities*.

* Research publication output by UKZN according to the Department of Higher Education and Training report on the 2010 institutional research publication outputs

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VisionTo be the Premier University of African Scholarship.

MissionA truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with society and demographically representative, redressing the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past.

UKZN’s Transformation Charter

The University shall be a place where: n Research, Teaching, Learning and Scholarship

are a vocation for alln Race and Gender Representation is evident in all structures n A socially cohesive and inclusive institutional culture thrivesn Good modes of Governance are enshrinedn The Right to Freedom of Expression is guaranteed n Advancement of the transformation agenda is the

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The University is located in two cities,Durban and Pietermaritzburg, and has five campuses:

A Research-led UniversityUKZN is recognised as one of the top three research-led universities in South Africa and is one of the largest universities in sub-Saharan Africa.

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UKZN is rated amongst the top 500 universities of the world according to the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) and is recognised as the third most productive university in South Africa in terms of research output. The University has international partnerships with institutions in 46 countries.

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As one of South Africa’s pre-eminent research institutions, UKZN provides a dynamic environment for all facets of the research and innovation spectrum. Research activities span the natural, biomedical, social sciences and the humanities.

Research income in 2011 was R676 million. This includes R105 million raised by the UKZN Foundation in project-related grants. According to the Department of Higher Education and Training report, the University is the third highest in terms of total research output, having contributed 11.8% of the country’s total. The research output per staff member was 105% of the national norm.

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UKZN SARChi Chairsn Systems Biology of HIV and AIDSn Evolutionary Biologyn Quantum Information Processing and Communicationn Economic Developmentn Fluorine Process Engineering and Separation Technologyn Gravitating Systemsn Applied Poverty Reduction Assessmentn Land Use Planning and Managementn Rural Agronomy and Developmentn Intelligent Real Time Power Systemsn Indigenous Healthcare Systems

South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChi)

The University has the following 11 South African Research Chairs, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation.

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Research Focus Areas

n HIV/AIDS, TB and Health Promotion n Social Development and Economic Studiesn Water, Environment and Biodiversityn Biotechnologyn Agriculture and Food Securityn Energy and Technology for Sustainable Developmentn Gender, Race and Identity Studiesn Indigenous African Knowledge Systemsn Maritime Studies

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Major Research Centres include: n African Vision Research Institute (AVRI)n African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI)n Centre for African Literary Studiesn Centre for Cosmology and Astrophysicsn Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identityn Centre for Quantum Technologiesn Centre for Smart Materialsn Ujamaa Centre for Contextual Hermeneuticsn Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies

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Major HIV and AIDS Research Centres n The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIV911)n The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research In South Africa (CAPRISA)n Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)n KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH)

Mandela Rhodes Scholars (2010 – 2012)

2012 – Mr John Flanagan2011 – Ms Zamafuze Ngcobo and Ms Qhelile Nyathi2010 – Ms Siphesihle Dumisa, Mr Serge Lomago and Ms Nandipha Sephuma

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School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

College of Agriculture, Engineering

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School of Engineering

School of Life Sciences

School of Chemistry and Physics

School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental

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UKZN is organised on a College Model

School of Nursing and Public Health

School of Cinical Medicine

School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical

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School of Health Sciences

College of Health Sciences

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School of Law

Graduate School of Business and Leadership

School of Management, Information Technology

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School of Accounting, Economics

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College of Law and Management Studies

The School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics

The School of Applied Human

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College of Humanities The School of EducationThe School of Arts

The School of Social Sciences

The School of Built Environment and Development Studies

FACT FILEn UKZN is one of the largest universities in sub-Saharan Africa.

n The University enjoys a century of academic advancements.

n UKZN is one of three African universities rated amongst the top 500 universities of the world according to the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

n UKZN is the third most productive university in South Africa in terms of research output.

n The University offers approximately 2 000 academic programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

n International partnerships with institutions in 46 countries provide an opportunity for direct interface and global academic exchange that enhances scholarship and the student experience.

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FACT FILEn UKZN is the only university in South Africa to offer a degree in Agricultural (Bioresources) Engineering that is fully accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa.

n The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), located on the Medical School campus, is among the largest and most successful research institutes in Africa.

n The multimillion-rand KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS (K-RITH), an international centre of scientific research, is located on the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine campus. K-RITH is a ground breaking partnership between UKZN and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States.

n SIFE-UKZN (Students In Free Enterprise) were the National Champions for the fourth time and they represented South Africa in Malaysia in the SIFE World Cup. SIFE-UKZN is currently placed within the top 16 teams out of 1 500 teams around the world.

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UKZN employed 4 329 permanent and long-term contract staff in 2011, of whom 1 579 are academic and 2 750 support staff. Women constitute 55 % of staff. Several women occupy senior leadership positions at the University. UKZN has developed equity strategies and programmes, including the Equity Acceleration Programme, UKZN’s key mechanism for nurturing and developing the next generation of academics.

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Of the 42 209 students registered at UKZN in 2011, 20 % were postgraduate students. Women make up 59 % of the student body.

Alternative Access Programmes cater for learners from socially and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and who are academically underprepared. Approximately 350 disabled students were registered at the University in 2011. The Disability Unit has developed and facilitated a range of services for the special needs of disabled students.

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Financial Aid

In 2011 A total amount of approximately R244 million was awarded to students in terms of LOANS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa [NSFAS] administered - including Final year student funding and UKZN Loan funding); an amount of R228 million in bursaries (Corporates, NSFAS administration, Social responsibility, Deceased Estates) and an amount of R63 million on scholarships (UKZN, National Research Foundation and Deceased Estates).

Residences

The consolidated 2011 budget for all campuses was R140 million. Budget UKZN’s total consolidated revenue in 2011 amounted to R3.4 billion. As at December 2011 the University had aggregate assets of R5.9 billion.

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International

The University is a multicultural environment. In 2011, it was home to 2 582 international students from 96 countries. While the majority of our full-time students are from the SADC region and the rest of Africa, UKZN attracts full-time students from China, India, Europe, the USA, and other parts of the world. The University’s international partnerships in 46 countries provide an opportunity for direct interface and global academic exchange that enhances scholarship and the student experience.

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Drake University – USA

Millersville University – USA

University of Calgary – Canada

Jonkoping University – Sweden

University of Konstanz – Germany

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College of Health Sciences

The College of Health Sciences is the only College at UKZN funded simultaneously by five of the largest funders of Biomedical Research (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome Trust, Bill and Melinda Gates, Centre for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health).

The College has specialist paediatric facilities in Speech Language Therapy, Audiology and Optometry.

The Biokinetics Clinic offers high performance training to outstanding sports persons, at both national and provincial levels.

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The Centre for Science Access and the UNITE Programme both operate within the College andare two of the country’s leading access programmes. They provide educational opportunities to undergraduate students from under privileged backgrounds. They now contribute nearly 30% of all graduations in the College.

College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science

CAES represents the largest group of scientists, engineers and technologists under one structure in Africa with over 1400 employees (including academics, administrative staff, specialist technical support staff, tutors, demonstrators, and research support staff).

UKZN has the widest range of Agricultural disciplines (11) at one South African institution. Of the five areas identified as lacking critical skills by the National Education and Training Strategy for Agriculture, viz. agricultural production (plants and animals); agricultural economics; agricultural development; agricultural engineering; and veterinary science; four are addressed by programmes within the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science.

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College of Humanities

The College of Humanities is home to the Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), a renowned multi-disciplinary arts centre of excellence with a global reach and impact that co-ordinates four annual internationally-reputed festivals: Time of the Writer, Durban International Film Festival, JOMBA Contemporary Dance Experience and Poetry Africa. The College’s School of Education offers internationally recognised teacher education programmes across all levels of qualifications in Education and contributes significantly to the South African education system within the three sectors of producing new teachers, up-skilling existing teachers and knowledge production through its research programmes and publications.

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College of Law and Management Studies

Of all the Law Faculties/Schools in South Africa, the School of Law at UKZN had the highest number of students who graduated either summa cum laude or cum laude in 2011.

The Chief Justice of South Africa, the Honourable Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng (2012) and the current Judge President of KwaZulu-Natal, the Honourable Justice Chiman Patel (2012) are graduates of our Law School.

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The University has committed itself and all its resources to the common good of society. More than 350 outreach projects are managed by UKZN, ranging from HIV and AIDS projects, to upgrading the skills of Science and Mathematics teachers, to food security and community tourism projects.

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Major Community Projects include: Maths4Stats Project, headed by Professor Delia North was first piloted at UKZN in 2010. It is a training initiative for approximately 450 mathematics educators in KZN, aimed at encouraging the development of mathematics education as an important bedrock for statistics.

Professor Albert Modi heads a community project at Umbumbulu, which has led to previously-disadvantaged farmers supplying Woolworths with organic madumbis; the project has led to another female youth-controlled vegetable production project for local marketing. Professor Graham Jewitt runs a community project linked to the improvement of land quality and water conservation in Potshini near Bergville. Northern Cape Teacher BSc project - UKZN raised funding (from BHP Billiton and Nedbank) to train 25 high school teachers from the Northern Cape to get their BScs. The project is co-ordinated by Helen Moonsamy.

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The Kenneth Gardens Intervention Project run by the School of Built Environment and Development Studies is a collaborative community initiative between UKZN and the Durban University of Technology. Residents at Kenneth Gardens, the largest housing development in the city, now have access to their own on-site clinic offering services in homeopathy, community nursing and nutrition.

Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research under the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics has pioneered an interface between academic biblical studies (and theology) and local forms of biblical interpretation, within the context of social transformation. The Ujamaa Centre has worked extensively throughout South Africa, across the African continent, and has an international reputation for its community-based work and research.

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The School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics’s Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa aims at building resilience in people and communities through oral history and memory work. The Oral History Programme runs research projects on aspects of South African social, cultural and religious history and assists local communities in retrieving their histories. The Memory Work Programme provides psychosocial support through storytelling to children and families experiencing adversity.

The Centre for Adult Education (CAE) under the School of Education runs the Learn with Echo project. It promotes non-formal education for adults through its weekly supplement in The Witness newspaper which enables it to reach the most marginalised sectors: adults without basic education. This project has been running for 22 years.

The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation Scholarship Scheme is headed by Dr Andrew Ross from the Department of Family Medicine. The scholarship scheme provides scholarships to students from rural areas who have obtained places to study health science courses at a university. The project was initially restricted to Umkhanyakude but now it covers the whole of KZN. (www.umthomboyouth.org.za)

The Department of Paediatrics and Child Health projects led by Professor Anna Coutsoudis include the Garden project and life skills programme being conducted for HIV affected persons living in Cato Manor:

1. Training mothers to become breastfeeding peer supporters in Cato Manor; working with the Lower Umfolozi Hospital, Empangeni to set up a system of volunteer peer supporters to encourage mothers with breastfeeding and general child care; and:

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CAPRISA’s “Reach for the Stars” programme develops and nutures young learners into critical thinkers and future scientists. It targets learners from Grade 10, 11 and 12 specifically from schools in the rural district of Vulindlela where there are high levels of poverty and limited resources. To achieve its objectives the project supports learners through mentorship, and seeks to develop and enhance their skills in literacy, mathematics and science.

HIV Pathogenesis Programme (HPP) - Study participants in the HPP research projects receive more personalised healthcare than is possible through government hospitals. HIV-infected study subjects have access to advice and support at any time and receive formal clinical reviews, with viral loads and CD4 count measurements. Participants are also taught about clinical care, public health, financial management and prospects of tested intervention being available to the study population if proven effective.

The UKZN Optometry Department has been in partnership with the Islamic Medical Association (IMA) since August 2009 with the Rigid gas permeable contact lenses (RGP) contact lens project. UKZN Optometry students also help service the IMA Marianhill Eye clinic.

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AlumniThe University has one of South Africa’s largest groupings of alumni, with 144 704 graduates spread across 120 countries. Our graduates hold prominent positions in government, industry, academia, civil society, the media and the sporting world.

BusinessGuy Brazier: Regional Leader - Deloitte KwaZulu-NatalWarren Clewlow: Chairman - Barloworld SAKuseni Dlamini: Former CEO - Old Mutual: SA and Emerging MarketsSol Kerzner: International hotelierVincent Maphai: Chairman - BHP Billiton South Africa former Chairman of Council, UKZNAlan Olivier: CEO - Grindrod GroupStephen Saad: Group Chief Executive - Aspen Pharmacare HoldingsPhilip Hourquebie: CEO - Ernst & Young

Civil SocietyYasmin Essop Bacus: HOD - Community Safety Liaison, KwaZulu-NatalVasu Gounden: Executive Director - The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)Pregs Govender: Former parliamentarian and gender activistThe late Fatima Meer: Activist, academic and authorKumi Naidoo: Executive Director - GreenpeacePhyllis Naidoo: Activist and lawyerImtiaz Sooliman: Founder - Gift of the GiversAndrew Philip Zaloumis: ConservationistRt Rev Michael Nuttall: Former Anglican BishopJeremy Sarkin: Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance - United Nations

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Education

Penelope Andrews: Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law - City University of New York

Ahmed Bawa: Vice-Chancellor - Durban University of Technology

Cheryl De La Rey: Vice-Chancellor & Principal - University of PretoriaEla Gandhi: Former Chancellor - Durban University of

TechnologyNtombifikile Mazibuko: Vice-Chancellor - University of ZululandAdam Habib: Deputy Vice-Chancellor -

Research, Innovation and Advancement - University of Johannesburg

Malegapuru Makgoba: Former Medical Research Council (SA) President UKZN’s founding Vice-Chancellor

Ephraim Mokgokong: Chancellor of the Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa)

Mamphela Ramphele: First Black woman Vice-Chancellor in South Africa and former World Bank Director

Government

Ina Cronje: KwaZulu-Natal MEC - FinanceSiyabonga Cwele: Minister of State Security - South AfricaNkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: Chairperson of the African Union CommissionSibongiseni Dhlomo: KwaZulu-Natal MEC for HealthMalusi Gigaba: Minister of Public Enterprises - South AfricaPravin Gordhan: Minister of Finance - South AfricaThembekile Makwetu: Deputy Auditor - General of South AfricaMduduzi Manana: Deputy Minister of Higher Education - South AfricaTrevor Manuel: Minister in the Presidency - National Planning Commission - South Africa Hlengiwe Mkhize: Deputy Minister - Correctional Services - South AfricaZwelini Mkhize: Premier of KwaZulu-Natal and UKZN ChancellorPakishe Motsoaledi: Minister of Health, South AfricaBlade Nzimande: Minister of Higher Education and Training, South AfricaJoseph Phaahla: Deputy Minister of Arts & Culture - South AfricaMohamed Enver Surty: Deputy Minister: Basic Education - South AfricaBen Martins: Minister of Transport

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The Judiciary

Selby Baqwa: Former Public Prosecutor, South AfricaThe Late Tholakele Madala: Constitutional Court JudgeSandile Ngcobo: Former Chief Justice The Constitutional Court South AfricaChiman Patel: Judge President - KwaZulu-NatalNavanethem Pillay: United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsRenuka Subban: Vice-Chair, Equality Court Training Commission, DurbanLeona Theron: JudgeVuka Tshabalala: Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology Former Judge-President, High Court KwaZulu-NatalZakeria Mohammed Yacoob: Judge - South African Constitutional Court

Literature and the Arts

Concord Nkabinde: Winner of the 2006 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz

The late Alan Paton: AuthorMark Killian: Music writer for the film TsotsiThe late Mazisi Kunene: Poet, writer and scholarBridgeman Mthunzi Namba: Pastor, singer, songwriter and

producerDevi Sankaree-Govender: Investigative Journalist and ColumnistBarbara Trapido: AuthorJohn Van de Ruit: Author of the novel ‘Spud’Lara Logan: Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

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Medical

Letlape Tebogo Kgosietsile: Former Chairperson South African Medical AssociationBongani Mayosi: Professor of Medicine - University of Cape TownVejaynand Ramlakan: South African National Defence Force Surgeon-GeneralVirendh Somers: Head of Cardiology - Mayo Clinic

Sport and Entertainment

Tommy Bedford: Former Springbok Rugby playerAndrew Birkett: Triple Dusi Marathon WinnerOregan Hoskins: President - South African Rugby UnionCraig Jamieson: Former ‘Sharks’ rugby playerPaula Newby-Fraser: Triathalon World ChampionPat Pillai: TV news anchor and founder of Life CollegeShaun Pollock: CricketerJonty Rhodes: CricketerShaun Tomson: Professional Surfer

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