
Directorate: Community & Internationalisation
Welcome Message from the Director
Welcome to the Community and Internationalisation Directorate’s (CE&ID) Home Page.
Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. I hope that you will find the information on our website useful.
In line with the WSU’s vision and mission, the CE&ID activities are geared towards ensuring that we develop and sustain the local and global dimension of Community Engagement and Internationalisation programmes through teaching & learning, research and community development initiatives.
In addition to the following CE&ID key focus areas and goals, the CE&ID has also been given the responsibility of coordinating the community engagement activities for the University.
Mzolisi Payi
Director: Community Engagement & Internationalisation Directorate
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & INTERNATIONALISATION DIRECTORATE
- VISION
To be a leading centre of integrated community engagement and internationalisation programmes that are responsive to local, national and global imperatives
- MISSION
To develop and sustain the local and global dimension of community engagement and internationalisation programmes through teaching & learning, research and community development initiatives
- SECTIONS WITHIN THE DIRECTORATE
The Directorate comprises:
- Experiential Learning Unit (Work-Integrated Learning and Service-Learning Programmes)
- Strategic Partnerships Unit
- Office for International Education.
The Centre also coordinates the community engagement for the University.
- FOCUS AREA AND GOALS
FOCUS AREA 1: WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING (WIL)
GOAL 1: To enhance the prospects of the students’ practical learning, balanced with theoretical learning and the understanding of their areas of study.
FOCUS AREA 2: SERVICE LEARNING
GOAL 1: To facilitate the transformation of academic progress that will produce a new graduate cadreship responsive to issues of development through a service-learning ethos.
FOCUS AREA 3: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVELOPMENTAL PRIORITIES
GOAL 1: To establish strategic partnerships with the communities, and relevant institutions locally, nationally and internationally
GOAL 2: To facilitate local, national and international development priorities that afford community members an active role of shaping their well-being and tomorrow’s world
GOAL 3: To contribute towards National Skills Development initiatives.
FOCUS AREA 4: INTERNATIONALISATION
GOAL 1: Participation of WSU Students and Academics in International Experiences
GOAL 2: Administration and the Recruitment of International Students
GOAL 3: Internationalising Curriculum
GOAL 4: International development and Research Collaboration.