Wits releases School of Mining and Engineering Annual Review 2012

Fred Cawood, Head of the Wits School of Mining Engineering

The stated Goals are:

• Goal 1: Reduce student to staff ratios
  
• Goal 2: Always have a grant-funded associate lecturer in the School, over and above the MQA Scheme
  
• Goal 3: Increase the percentage of fully-sponsored students in the School
  
• Goal 4: Manage student and staff populations towards acceptable demographic ratios
  
• Goal 5: Review, on a five-yearly basis, undergraduate, postgraduate and certificate programmes for relevance
  
• Goal 6: Build strong partnerships (internal and external)
  
• Goal 7: Retain ECSA accreditation of the undergraduate programme
  
• Goal 8: Improve student throughput in all programmes
  
• Goal 9:Improve research output through research degrees and publications; and
  
• Goal 10: Increase the number of NRF-Rated staff.