The Effectiveness of Twitter as a Tertiary Education Stakeholder Communication Tool: A Case of #FeesMustFall in South Africa

Makhubu, Nkululeko; Budree, Adheesh

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21902-4_38

“…More interestingly, other respondents clearly specified that student organisations that they know play an integral role in some issues like land reformation, fees must fall, and other related issues in Africa. This is in line with Makhubu and Budree (2019), who claimed that student-led uprisings in South Africa under the social media hashtags #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall raised awareness of some systemic disparities in HEIs. This clearly shows that student organisations or groups are vital at universities as they participate in activities that benefit students for the public good.…”

Section: Funding and Decision-makingsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Student-led uprisings in South Africa from 2015 to 2016 under the hashtags #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall raised awareness of some of the systemic disparities in higher education institutions (HEIs) (Makhubu & Budree 2019). Nhemachena, Nauta and Warikandwa (2017) conducted a study at the University of Namibia in 2016 to ascertain student opinions on the Fees Must Fall Movement in Namibia.…”

Section: The Involvement Of Students In Bringing Decoloniality To Uni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Fourth Industrial Revolution as a driver for the public good through higher education institutions

Jere¹,

Aruleba²,

Jere³

2022

Higher Education for Public Good: Perspectives in the New Academic Landscape in South Africa

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Peer-review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer-Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer-review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.

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“…More interestingly, other respondents clearly specified that student organisations that they know play an integral role in some issues like land reformation, fees must fall, and other related issues in Africa. This is in line with Makhubu and Budree (2019), who claimed that student-led uprisings in South Africa under the social media hashtags #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall raised awareness of some systemic disparities in HEIs. This clearly shows that student organisations or groups are vital at universities as they participate in activities that benefit students for the public good.…”

Section: Funding and Decision-makingsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Student-led uprisings in South Africa from 2015 to 2016 under the hashtags #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall raised awareness of some of the systemic disparities in higher education institutions (HEIs) (Makhubu & Budree 2019). Nhemachena, Nauta and Warikandwa (2017) conducted a study at the University of Namibia in 2016 to ascertain student opinions on the Fees Must Fall Movement in Namibia.…”

Section: The Involvement Of Students In Bringing Decoloniality To Uni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering the power of decolonisation among selected southern African university students

Jere¹,

Jere²,

Hlatywayo³

2022

Higher Education for Public Good: Perspectives in the New Academic Landscape in South Africa

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Peer-review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer-Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer-review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.

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“…Student-led uprisings in South Africa from 2015 to 2016 under the hashtags #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall raised awareness of some of the systemic disparities in higher education institutions (HEIs) (Makhubu & Budree 2019). Nhemachena, Nauta and Warikandwa (2017) conducted a study at the University of Namibia in 2016 to ascertain student opinions on the Fees Must Fall Movement in Namibia.…”

Section: The Involvement Of Students In Bringing Decoloniality To Uni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring the core business of higher education

Matsiliza¹

2022

Higher Education for Public Good: Perspectives in the New Academic Landscape in South Africa

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Peer-review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer-Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer-review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.

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The Effectiveness of Twitter as a Tertiary Education Stakeholder Communication Tool: A Case of #FeesMustFall in South Africa

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Fourth Industrial Revolution as a driver for the public good through higher education institutions

Fourth Industrial Revolution as a driver for the public good through higher education institutions

Reconsidering the power of decolonisation among selected southern African university students

Monitoring the core business of higher education

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