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2011 Activities

March 2011

In March this year the Faculty of Education organized a Curriculum Implementation Workshop, held at Hifikepunye Pohamba Unam (H.P.) Campus (formerly Ongwediva College of Education) at Onwediva in northern Namibia. Participants were lecturers from all newly created four Unam campuses of Katima, Khomasdal, Rundu and Hifikepunye Pohamba campuses. Presenters and workshop facilitators included Unam lecturers and professors, representatives of Hogeschool Rotterdam from The Netherlands and from South Africa.

Below is a pictorial report of the workshop

Cultural Welcome: a performance by the H.P. Unam Campus Oshiwambo cultural group at the official opening

Some of the presenters at the workshop

Some of the workshop participants

A visit at the Unam Engineering Campus facilities at Ongwediva

April 2011

In April, Mr Erkkie Haipinge of formerly Windhoek College of Education visited Oulu University in Finland as part of the North-South-South exchange program. He delivered a lecture and other presentations

Oulu University landmarks

Lecture and discussions

Vapu (May Day) Oulu University student celebrations

City tour

May 2011

In May 2011 the Faculty of Education signed an MOU with William Paterson University in New Jersey, USA. Dr. Charmaine Villet visited the WP University at the end of May and visited a number of their Professional Development Schools/PDS and their Professors in Residence/PIR's in these schools. It is a programme whereby the University adopts some of the worse performing public schools and places a professor in the school on a weekly basis. The professor then works with the teachers and school management in developing a site-based school improvement programme and then helps the school to implement it. The focus is on helping the school to improve the performance of learners, especially on the state-wide assessments. Both the school management and the teachers agree that the program is helping them to improve their students' results and to also enhance the learning atmosphere in the schools. It is a model that we can adapt and adopt for poor performing schools in Namibia.

The visit is pictorially recorded below:

Visiting a primary school with the deputy dean of the FoE, Dr. Dorothy Fiola

Teaching a grade 5 class about Namibia, the country's population, landscape, fun things to do, housing, schools, etc. while skyping with learners at another school ( Maine)