The Tshwane University of Technology is among the top 15 science, technology, and engineering universities in South Africa. This is according to the latest Times Higher Education rankings. The global rankings provide a list of top-performing universities across the world with a focus on research. The evaluation of the universities takes into account factors including teaching, research, citations, industrial income, and global outlook.
“In the academic world, the golden standard is peer reviews, so these rankings are based on peer reviews. In other words, the people who really understand the business in which you are, who therefore deploy their knowledge of your industry to work out how you compare to institutions similar to you, in your country but most importantly in the world. In that sense, rankings are important and what they say becomes important.
“The key lessons that we learnt is that the hybrid mode of delivery is probably going to be with us for a long time if not for the foreseeable future, in other words, no university in the world will continue to teach in one mode only. That is, you can’t teach by contact only, obviously, because COVID-19 made it impossible for there to be contact, not only between students and their lecturers but also between students and students.