The department
Staff profiles
Amanda Barratt
amanda-petra.barratt@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2614
Supports and facilitates approval, accreditation and registration of academic programmes by steering applications through the internal committee system as well as the external systems, such as the Department of Education, the Higher Education Quality Committee and the South African Qualifications Authority; Servicing officer to Programme Accreditation and Approval Committee and Distinguished Teachers Award Committee.
Ashraf Conrad, Principal Planning Officer
ashraf.conrad@uct.ac.za - 021 650 3375
Supporting the Chief Information Officer in the provision and analysis of management information. Develop and maintaining of planning support models. Assist in the development and responsibility for the maintenance of a HEMIS plus database.
Judy Favish, Director
judy.favish@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2180
Responsible for the co-ordination of planning in the IPD.
Fiona Gibbons, Planning Officer
fiona.gibbons@uct.ac.za - 021 650 3688
Receiving and responding to internal and external ad hoc requests for data/information with regard to student enrolments and academic performance across the university. Responsible for collecting information/data, compiling information. Providing basic data to the Institutional Planning Specialist for report writing.
Elaine Hendricks, Administrative Officer
elaine.hendricks@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2149
Responsible for project managing Institutional Information ad hoc queries. Assisting with servicing committees, i.e. PBWG meetings and the Planning Forum. Providing routine admin support to the director and managing the departmental budget.
Jane Hendry, Chief Information Officer
jane.hendry@uct.ac.za - 021 650 3446
To provide data, analysis and information in support of institutional planning and decision making support at all appropriate levels within the University. This includes the development of and maintenance of an integrated institutional Management Information System, and the management of data provision for the university's academic review process as well as for a range of other planning initiatives.
Zone Mdledle, Quality Assurance Manager
zone.mdledle@uct.ac.za - 021 650 5193
Responsible for supporting Quality Assurance at UCT through co-ordinating reviews of academic and support departments, co-ordinating audit processes, servicing university-wide quality assurance structures and helping to monitor and improve the effectiveness of UCT's Quality Management Systems.
Mbasa Mguye, Planning Officer.
mbasa.mguye@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2615
Assists the Quality Assurance Manager and Director with quality promotion and the implementation of quality assurance activities for the University. Responsibilities include organising the reviews of academic and support departments, providing secretariat support for the Quality Assurance Committee, and managing a database for the review processes.
Sonwabo Ngcelwane, Senior Planning Officer
sonwabo.ngcelwane@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2103
Responsibilities include:Gathering data for the Annual Social Responsiveness Report submitted to Senate and Council:Helping to broker new partnerships and relationships related to SR:Servicing the Social Responsiveness Working Group and other ad hoc task teams related to Social Responsiveness:Collecting and uploading information on Social Responsiveness activities onto the university's SR website and promoting the utilisation of the information on the website internally and externally:Identifying possible academics and professional staff to assist with Social Responsiveness initiatives undertaken by students:Organising events to promote, debate and evaluate SR activities:
Contributing to enhancing the responsiveness of the university's planning processes:Audit Social Responsiveness activities at the university.
Rochelle Speller, Administrative Assistant
rochelle.speller@uct.ac.za - 021 650 2179
Providing an executive secretarial support to the Executive Director of IPD. Scheduling of all meetings, i.e. the University Strategic Committee. Preparing documentation; distributing agendas and minutes for the various committees.
Zandile Tennyson, Planning Officer within the Information Unit
zandile.tennyson@uct.ac.za - 021 650 5194
