Jan Botha Stellenbosch University Jan Botha Bio Monday, September 12, 2022 - 12pm Meigs Hall Classroom 101 General Event Dr. Botha will be joining us to speak on South African and global institutional research trends on September 12 at 12noon in Meigs Hall, room 101. In person attendance is at capacity for this event. Please email Suzanne to request a recording. His presentation, Research on higher education (RHE), institutional research (IR) and research utilisation, will draw on findings in his books and use examples from research on higher education in South Africa for illustration of trends and practices. Jan Botha is professor in the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Scientometrics and STI Policy and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor and co-author of Institutional Research in South African Higher Education, Intersecting Contexts and Practices and Utilization of South African Research on Higher Education (SUNMEDIA, 2016) and Utilization of South African Research on Higher Education (SUNMEDIA, 2021) . --------------------------------------------------- Botha holds a doctoral degree in New Testament Studies (1991). He taught Hellenistic Greek at different universities in South Africa during the first part of his career and received the Rector’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. From 1998-2014 he worked in different capacities as manager and administrator at Stellenbosch University, including from 2007-2014 as Senior Director for Institutional Research and Planning. He served on national policy-making task teams of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) [including the National Policy Framework for Higher Education Internationalisation in South Africa (2020)] and the Council for Higher Education (CHE) [including the National Programme Accreditation Framework and Criteria and the Doctoral Qualification Standard (2018-2019)]. He is a past president of the Southern African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR). He regularly presents courses and workshops on higher education policy and management and on doctoral supervision. He has supervised seven PhD and 18 Masters students to completion. He is course leader of the online CREST Course for Doctoral Supervisors at African Universities, developed with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and offered since 2018, that has (by 2021) trained 444 supervisors across 32 countries in Africa.
