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• PRINCIPALS REPORT TO COUNCIL
• 26 APRIL 2006

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PRINCIPALS DIARY

• 19 January Workshop Taking Unisa into the
  Future the Tuition model revised
• 20 January SENEX
• 23/24 January AU Summit of Heads of State and
  Government, Khartoum, Sudan delivered keynote
  address
• 25 27 January ACDE Executive Board Meeting,
  Khartoum, Sudan (Chaired meeting)
• 2 February Opening of Academic Year

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (contd)

• 3 February HRCOC
• 6 February HESA Exco meeting
• 6 February Dinner with Minister of Education
• 8 February Meeting with Ms Nthobi Angel, ESKOM
• 9 11 February Management workshop, Kloofzicht
• 23 February SENEX
• 24/25 February Unisa Foundation Trustees
  breakaway, Mount Grace

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (contd)

• 24 January Mayoral Invitation Recognition of
  Service Excellence. Delivered keynote address.
• 27 January Unisa 2015 Strategic Plan
  implementation presentation.
• 26 28 January National Conference on the
  Strengthening of African Studies in Africa and
  south Africa in Particular. Participated in
  panel discussion- Opening Address
• 3 March HRCOC
• 5/6 March Meeting of SADC ministers responsible
  for HE, Kasane Botswana

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (contd)

• 7 March As Chair of HESA, hosted a dinner at
  Cloghereen for Dr Johnetta Cole, 14th President
  of Bennet College for Women in Greensboro, North
  Carolina, USA
• 9 March Visits to registrations, Student Admin,
  Examinations and Student Support
• 10/11 March Council Workshop, Kloofzicht
• 13/14 March Planning Meeting for AGI Workshop
  on Governance, Pretoria

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (contd)

• 14 March Combined Union meeting to discuss MRF
• 15 March SENATE
• 17 March NBP addressed Unisa SRC National
  Congress
• 22 25 March South Africa Week in Addis Ababa,
  Ethiopia
• 27 March JIPSA Launch, Pretoria
• 28 March Visit to Call Centre, Florida Campus

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PRINCIPALS DIARY(contd.)

• 29 March SENEX
• 30 March HESA Board of Directors Meeting
• 30 March Extraordinary Meeting of Council (by
  invitation)
• 31 March Interview Documentary Breaking the
  Rules (examining the history of the
  anti-apartheid struggle)
• 31 March Meeting with H E Ms Nomvume Magaqa, S A
  Ambassador in Thailand
• 31 March Opening Address Launch of New
  National Union of Students, Stellenbosch
  University

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (contd.)

• 2 April Open 8th World Conference on Injury
  Prevention and Safety Promotion, ICC, Durban
• 5 13 April Participated in Association of
  Commonwealth Universities Conference of Executive
  Heads, University of Adelaide, Australia
• 18 April Keynote address and participation in
  Plenary Session SASCE 2006 International
  Conference, Vereeniging

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (Contd.)

• 19 April Breakfast Meeting with Minister N
  Pandor attended by Vice Chancellors
• 19 April Presidential HE Working Group Meeting
• 20 April National Awards Ceremony, Union
  Buildings
• 20 April Inauguration of Chancellor and Vice
  Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
  University, Port Elizabeth

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PRINCIPALS DIARY (Contd.)

• 21 April Meeting Managing Director of Old
  Mutual, Cape Town
• 21 April Unisa Brand Launch Zevenwacht Wine
  Estate, Cape
• 22 April Graduation Ceremony Wellington
• 24 April Meeting with combined unions
• 25 April Graduation Ceremony Mr Dannie Jordaan
• 26 April Council Meeting

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

• 2 May Graduation Ceremony Pretoria Campus
• 3 May Visits to Colleges Human Sciences, Law,
  Economic and Management Sciences, Science,
  Engineering and Technology
• 4 May HESA Exco
• 4 May Honorary Degree Ceremony Mr A Knott-Craig
  (Vodacom)

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS (Contd.)

• 6 19 May Visiting USA Signing of Memorandum
  of Agreement between Unisa and Thomas Edison
  State College, Trenton, NJ and visits to other
  universities and Foundations within the US
• 25 May HESA Board of Directors Meeting
• 2 June HRCOC
• 5 June Polokwane 2015 and Unisa Brand Launches

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS (Contd.)

• 7 June Visit to Learner Support Dept.
• 8 June SENEX
• 8 June Meeting Prof M Mboya, NEPAD Secretariat
• 9 14 June ICDE SCOP 2006 Conference,
  Lillehammer, Norway
• 14 June SENATE
• 23 June Exco of Council
• 23 June Meeting with SRC

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS (Contd.)

• 28 June Unisa Foundation Trustees Meeting
• 29 June HESA Board of Directors Meeting
• 29 June Guest speaker at Gala Dinner 4th Annual
  SADC Conference on Assessment in Education,
  hosted by Umalusi
• 30 June Black Management Forum Meeting, hosted
  by Unisa GSBL
• 13 July SENEX

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS (Contd.)

• 14 July HRCOC
• 19 21 July Visit to African Development Bank,
  Tunisia
• 27 July HESA Exco
• 28 July Council Meeting
• 31 July 1 Aug HELM Programme for Vice
  Chancellors

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PRO VICE CHANCELLORS OFFICE

• Establishment of a Customer Care Committee
• College promotional week project
• Checkers Women Award 2006
• Workshop on Effective Allocation of HR within the
  Teaching and Learning Environment
• Moving towards service excellence at the Call
  Centre
• Discontinued modules

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LEARNER SUPPORT AND ICT

• Mission to Ethopia establishment of a Learning
  Centre in Addis Ababa
• Durban and Sunnyside Learning Centres
• ICT migration plan Systems integrated,
  finalising last aspects
• Move to new servers ICT platform complete
• Development of ICT Training Centre
• Smart Card/RFID, access control in progress

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STUDENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS

• SRC elections complete - new SRC President
  Lucky Phosa
• Alumni Chapters established in Lesotho and
  Kimberley
• Financial Aid Bureau Efforts to disburse R5
  million - post grad (M and D), aim to raise
  input and output subsidy
• ARCUSA 623 students with disabilities assisted

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ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH

• Tuition Model revised
• Active student policy
• BMR report academic, vocational and professional
  academic needs
• Roundtables
• Research Initiatives on Genocide and
  International Relations
• SANTED, SARCHI initiatives
• Centre for Advanced Studies of the African
  Society

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REGISTRAR

• Contact/Call Centre new premises occupied at
  Florida, 3 March, operational from 31 March.
• Workshop for Contact Centre, 2nd week May, (Prof
  Mathabe to sponsor)
• Total of 51 graduation ceremonies (Autumn),
  approx 13, 500 students will receive certificates

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REGISTRAR

• 29/30 March Student Admission and Registrations
  workshop
• 223 060 registrations as at 21 April 2006 (41,
  038 on line)
• Improvement of registration facilities and
  processes
• Masters, Doctoral registrations now electronic
• Training and Quality Assurance
• Registration information standardized
• Complaints office

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REGISTRAR

• Discontinued modules
• Zimbabwe Open University fees for students who
  are sponsored members of the Universitys staff
• ICDE International Conference, China

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OPERATIONS

• Unisa Bargaining Forum Management negotiating
  team awaiting feedback form Unions
• APSA arbitration award
• Directors issues
• Comprehensive job evaluation results
• Unisa In-House Week, 12-15 June 2006
• Unisa Health Day hugely successful
• Renewal of contracts EDs
• Performance Management System

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FINANCE AND UNIVERSITY ESTATES

• Post retirement medical aid funding Report
• Professors working from home
• Strategic plan for outsourcing
• Cafeteria Fedics update
• Durban learning Centre SABC and Hoy Park
  properties
• Sunnyside learning centre
• Appointment of new ED Finance - progress

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STRATEGY, PLANNING PARTNERSHIPS

• Policy Overseas Travel by Management
• Second HEMIS submission
• International Conference on Injury Prevention and
  Safety Promotion
• Unisa enrolment plan
• 2015 Strategic Plan Implementation
• International Relations Partnerships Policy

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STRATEGY, PLANNING PARTNERSHIPS

• Quality Assurance
• SANPAD evaluation
• Poetry evening

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VICE CHANCELLORS OFFICE

• Principal one-to-one discussions with executive
  and senior management re 2007.
• Dr Sidzumo- Mazibuko Harvard Course on Change
  Management
• Operational Plan 2006 College Boards and
  management committees, April/May
• Mandate Molefe on Change Management

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VICE CHANCELLORS OFFICE

• Enterprise risk management policy framework
• Disciplinary matters
• Subsidy issues and risks
• Monthly monitoring of Operational Plan
• Sudan project
• Unisa Foundation Initiatives
• Convocation ring project
• Chairs Primedia, Netcare, Eskom/Oliver Tambo

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VICE CHANCELLORS OFFICE

• LSSA Bursary Fund (Hortors)
• Unisa/Fifa partnership
• Sun International Wild Coast Sun, Mbizana
  Learning Centre
• Office newsletter (Addis Ababa Initiative)
• Unisa Corporate profile

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CRITICAL CHALLENGES

• Effective Systems Management Registrations,
  Despatch, Assignments
• Customer Care Service Excellence
• Labour relations and social cohesion
• Student satisfaction
• New management