Short Learning Program

Research Methodology Chapter Development for Honours and Master’s Students

About this course

This course is designed to equip each learner with the essential knowledge and skills needed to plan, conduct, and analyse research effectively at a level appropriate for Honors or Masters’s students, taking into consideration the different needs of students and the exposure they have had to research projects.

This course will give you a solid foundation for executing a research project. It will introduce you to the essential elements of a research project and how to write your project according to academic standards.

Admission and user requirements

Programme Outcomes

Understand the fundamentals of research methodology, including purpose, significance, and paradigms and their implications.
Develop critical evaluation skills of literature for subject specific research studies.
Gain practical knowledge of academic writing, research design, methods, data collection and analysis techniques.
Understand and apply practically the ethical considerations required for a research study to ensure the principles of research integrity are maintained.

Additional benefits

Certification

Upon successful completion of this SLP, students will receive an automatically generated Certificate of Completion backed by MANCOSA and issued through blockchain.

Blockchain certificates, can be easily shared with your network and are easily verified by employers and recruitment agencies.

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Your tutor

Derek Swemmer

(DLitt et Phil) taught English at Christ’s Hospital, England for 1 year.

He then pursued careers at four universities as a lecturer, administrator, senior manager, and then 20 years as a university executive director in the capacity of University Registrar at two of those institutions.

For some seventeen years he served as an elected member of the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee. Particularly notable were his roles as the cofounder of the significant International Education Association of South Africa in 1997, and a few years later both inspiring and driving the re-creation of the national university Registrars Imbizo (Forum).

After his second retirement, he served as CEO of the FEDSAS Institute of School Governance for 5 years. Since he retired for the third time, he has continued his role as a Higher Education Executive Consultant, stretching currently for 23 years before and after retirements.

In the past ten years he has completed some forty consultancy projects for 18 public and private universities and colleges. He has wide experience in governance, management, leadership, training and strategic planning at both public and private universities, NGOs, schools and public and private boards of directors and councils, in RSA, southern Africa and internationally. He has served as an advisor, facilitator, trainer and consultant in myriad HE capacities including 10 years on two Boards of Directors in the US.

He has contributed to some 10 published books and several other articles in journals, presented key note and other papers at international and local conferences, and earlier in his career produced 15 adult leader training manuals for Scouts South Africa.

In recent years he was a key author for FEDSAS in 2 editions of its joint seminal publication with the IoDSA entitled Governance in Public Schools – A guide to the application of the King Principles in Public Schools, (2016, 2019 based on King III and King IVTM respectively).

Over the years he has made short study visits to over 120 universities, in many of the 56 countries he has visited, thus gaining international insights about Higher Education, its governance, academic enterprise, strategies, and senior and executive management.

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