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RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AJ Ross --- Department of Family Medicine, ID Couper --- Faculty of Health Sciences,Recruiting sufficient health personnel for rural hospitals is an ongoing problem. The Friends of Mosvold Scholarship Scheme in northern KwaZulu-Natal is a locally based scholarship scheme that offers the local community a chance to develop its own human resources for... -
The Challenge of Management Scholarship in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Constant D. Beugré --- College of Business, USAIn her speech marking the opening of the second biannual meeting of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) in Gabarone, Bostwana, in January 2014, the Honorable Linah K. Mohohlo, Governor of the Bank of Bostwana, raised three important issues that... -
Educating accounting professionals: Development of a theoretical framework as a language of description of accounting knowledge production and its implications for accounting academics at South African universities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: I Lubbe --- University of Cape Town,Many accounting academics in South Africa encounter tension between the core academic requirements of research and teaching. A range of factors identified by this study contributes to the existence of this tension. These include the South African Institute of Chartered... -
Men, women, temporality and critical ethnography in Africa—the imperative for a transdisciplinary conversation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Elaine Salo --- Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria,This article addresses concerns of African-based scholars about how we can adequately represent the social heterogeneity and the rich diversity of African subjects. I argue that by prioritising Pan-Africanist solidarity, and in our search for African authenticity, we often represent... -
Culinary and hospitality teaching as a research-based profession
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Joseph Hegarty --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsThis is not just an academic paper, it is a resource. It addresses the topic of how hospitality and tourism education is likely to change in 5, 10 and 15 years’ time. The principal function of a hospitality academy is to... -
Young emerging adults’ graduateness and career adaptability: Exploring the moderating role of self-esteem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sadika Ismail --- Department of Human Resource Management, Nadia Ferreira --- Department of Human Resource Management, Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology,This study investigated the moderating role of self-esteem on young emerging adults’ in their school-to-work transition phase of graduateness skills and career adaptability. A non-probability convenience sample (n=332) of undergraduate black (98.5%) and female (62%) young emerging adults (18–29 years)... -
Culinary and hospitality teaching as a research-based profession
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Joseph Hegarty --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Science, The NetherlandsThis is not just an academic paper, it is a resource. It addresses the topic of how hospitality and tourism education is likely to change in 5, 10 and 15 years' time. The principal function of a hospitality academy is... -
The quest for Turkish scholarships: African students, transformation and hopefulness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdulkadir Osman Farah --- Department of Culture and Global Studies, Denmark Calvince Omondi Barack --- Department of Political Science and International Relations, TurkeyThe purpose of this study is to move beyond the limited research emphasis on traditional South-North scholarship accessibility. We discuss and analyze how through South-South connections and scholarship opportunities African students rationalize accessibility to scholarships in Turkey. Building on qualitative... -
Business management education in the African context of (post-)Covid-19: Applying a proximity framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Sherwat E. Ibrahim --- , Egypt Alan F. Fowler --- , South Africa Moses N. Kiggundu --- , CanadaWhat happens when Covid-19 meets Africa? To find answers, this article examines tertiary management education delivered by the continent’s business schools in the context of Africa’s susceptibilities to the pandemic. The concept of proximity is applied as an axiomatic analytic...