The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences – which celebrates its centenary this year – hosted its first-ever virtual year-end function on 1 December 2020 to celebrate the various Faculty successes achieved during this challenging year. Kicking off the session, Prof Elsabé Loots, Dean of the Faculty, commended staff for all their efforts in ensuring the successful completion of the academic year. “The resilience and adaptability of our staff this year really pulled us through,” she said, before noting that the Faculty’s centenary celebration plans had to be adapted substantially in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Among some of the innovative ways of continuing the celebrations virtually was the hosting of virtual EMS Talk events and profiling the Faculty’s alumni, an initiative which will continue into the new year. Prof Johan Oberholser, Deputy Dean for Teaching and Learning, applauded the Faculty’s academic staff for the remarkable ease with which they adapted to teaching fully online. He noted that the Faculty’s efforts to upskill staff through virtual training sessions were well-received. “EMS staff are really committed to their teaching and they are also quite happy to take a challenge head on.” The top academic achievers in the Faculty were announced, with Teaching and Learning Awards given to the following lecturers who introduced innovative teaching, maintained high module pass rates and were assessed to be good lecturers, based on objective evaluation on their teaching and classroom practice:
There were nine categories for the Research Awards and the following were the winners in each of the respective categories:
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