2025 Siyaphumelela Student Success Network Conference
On behalf of Saide, the coordinating body for the Siyaphumelela Initiative and the Kresge Foundation, we invite you to participate in the 2025 Siyaphumelela Student Success Network Conference. This event will take place from 8-11 July 2025 at the Indaba Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre in Fourways Johannesburg.
This year’s conference will go beyond the traditional. This year’s conference theme, “Reimagining student success and expanding opportunity for all”, aims to inspire delegates to reimagine traditional approaches and embrace new and innovative strategies that empower students to complete their studies successfully, thrive in their careers, contribute meaningfully to society and achieve lasting economic mobility. The theme further encapsulates our vision of scaling out, scaling up and scaling deep, fostering innovation and collaboration and driving systemic change.
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Recents stories
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- Siyaphumelela South African delegates attend DREAM2023
- Regional Universities Share Student Success Lessons
- Siyaphumelela Partner Highlights 2022
- Panel Presentation on Open Textbooks: Siyaphumelela Conference 2022
- All set to go for our eighth Siyaphumelela Conference
- Adopting a holistic, equity-focused approach to community vitality.
- Creating a sense of belonging for students and community
- Framing Mental Health for Student Success
- Emergency Remote Learning and Teaching in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
- Design-Based Research: An Introduction
- Siyaphumelela Conference: Rave Reviews
- The Student Voice: Amplifying the Student Experience for Success
- First Year Experience Reflections
- Deputy Vice Chancellors Lead the Implementation of Student Success Initiatives
- Assessing the capacities needed by an institution to adopt a student focused culture
- Siyaphumelela Network 2.0 kicks off with the Know your Data Workshop Series
- Coaching for student success
- Siyaphumelela’s maiden online conference
- Siyaphumelela initiative aims to expand use of data-driven approaches to student success
- Siyaphumelela Network 2.0's first virtual convening meeting
- Siyaphumelela Network 2.0 – the next phase of Siyaphumelela’s work
- A global scan of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT)
- Become a Participant in the Siyaphumelela Network 2020-2022
- Siyaphumelela Initiative Expands
- Looking back and looking forward for purposeful planning
- First Year Experience Research Burgeons
- Blended Learning during #FeesMustFall
- Evaluating the 2018 Siyaphumelela Conference
- Moving to successful Maths Pathways
- The case of a student support initiative by a student success programme at the University of Witwatersrand
- Reflections on Siyaphumelela Conference 2017
- Siyaphumelela Conference 2017 underway
- Invitation to collaborate on research with UMALUSI: NSC Results as Predictors of Success
- Vacancies at SALDRU
- Saide Site visits to Wits and NMMU
- Understanding First-Year Student Success based on School and Home Background
- Ethics Symposium Oct 2016
- Siyaphumelela 2016 goes deeper in Durban
- Feedback from first-year undergraduate students -The Wits experience
- Achieving the Dream support
- Using evidence to improve and support student transitions at the University of the Free State.
- Siyaphumelela Conference 2016 presentations and videos now available
- Resources from the February 2016 visit of the Siyaphumelela partners to GSU and Achieving the Dream conference
- South African Higher Education Dreaming!
- App.tizer
- Reconceptualising equality and equity in relation to student success
- Siyaphumelela Conference 2016
- 2025 Siyaphumelela Mental Health Webinar
Apr 02, 2025. On 6 February 2025, the Siyaphumelela Mental Health workstream hosted a webinar titled Mental Health and Wellbeing at South African Higher Education Institutions. - 2025 Siyaphumelela Student Tracking Webinar (YouTube)
Jan 29, 2025. This will include a presentation by IDSC on PowerHEDA modules available for student tracking. This will be followed by presentations on student tracking from University of Limpopo, Sol Plaatje University and University of Pretoria. - 2024 Siyaphumelela Conference Proceedings
Jun 28, 2024. Recordings and Presentations - Service Workshop: Wits Students Success Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Aug 16, 2024. Service Workshop - Extract from Summary Report: Siyaphumelela 2
Sep 30, 2024. - Siyaphumelela Partner Convening - Siyaphumelela 3.0
Oct 30, 2024. Presentation from the Partner Convening Meeting - Panel Discussion - Strategic Perspectives
Jul 26, 2024. 2024 Siyaphumeleal Conference - World Access to Higher Education Initiative: International Examples of Student Success by Graeme Atherton (UWL)
Jul 26, 2024. 2024 Siyaphumelela Conference - Siyaphumelela’s Journey Towards Equity in South African Universities: Moving from Access to Success by Jenny Glennie and Alan Amory (Saide)
Jul 26, 2024. 2024 Siyaphumelela Conference - The Sandwich Axiom for Holistic Success: Pre-in-Post-University Success. Prof Thandwa Mthembu (DUT)
Jul 26, 2024. 2024 Siyaphumelela Conference
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- Siyaphumelela News Alert April 2023
Conferences
- 2nd USAf Higher Education Conference 2021, 6-8 October 2021
- South African Journal of Higher Education (SAJHE)
The Journal provides a focal point for the publication of educational research from throughout the world including research done by members of prominent education associations in the country, in particular HELTASA - Journal of Student Affairs in Africa
This journal considers theoretical, practice-relevant, and reflective contributions from across the scholarly field of Student Development and professional domains of Student Development/Student Affairs - Journal of Decolonising Disciplines
An open-access journal which examines the relationality between higher education and society, revealing their dialectical relationship. I - Student Success
The Student Success Journal is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly publication exploring the experiences of students in tertiary educ. It provides the opportunity to disseminate current research and innovative good prac. - Hybrid Pedagogy
Hybrid Pedagogy (ISSN: 2332-2098) is a community, a conversation, a collaboration, a school, and a journal. It is a place to discuss critical digital pedagogy by advocating for students and fostering awareness of academic hierarchies. - International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
- Open Textbook Library
Boasting 857 textbooks . These open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network. - The Institute of Design (D.school) at Stanford
- OERu
The OERu makes education accessible to everyone. Coordinated by the OER Foundation, we are an independent, not-for-profit network that offers free online courses for students worldwide. We also provide affordable ways for learners to gain a