Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in Hydrology

A - Postgraduate Educational Programme

A “Future-Proof” Postgraduate Software Engineering Programme: Maintainability Issues

We report on the development of a software engineering programme for Masters students. Maintainability of educational programmes is critical: there is a large initial investment in developing quality programmes and we must ensure that these programmes are “future proof”. Consequently, we followed a traditional software engineering lifecycle process to develop a programme that would meet the cur...

A Postgraduate Programme on Information and Communication Systems Security

A postgraduate (MSc-type) programme in Information and Communication Systems Security is described in detail in this paper. The programme description (syllabus) herein is full in the academic sense, i.e. it includes the programme overall structure, as well as credits per course, academic prerequisites, degree prerequisites, course timings, etc.

Postgraduate palliative care education: evaluation of a South African programme.

AIM We aimed to assess the postgraduate palliative care distance education programme of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in terms of its perceived ability to influence palliative care delivery. METHODS A mixed-methods approach, consisting of two surveys using open-ended and multiple-choice options, was conducted from January to December 2007 at the UCT School of Public Health and Family Medi...

Interuniversity Master in Statistics and Operations Research