EUSA ID - University of Fort Hare

University of Fort Hare/Department of Development Studies

UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE
The University of Fort Hare (UFH) is one of South Africa's oldest universities, and the first founded as an institution of higher learning for Africans. From the early 20th century, Fort Hare emerged as one of Africa's most distinguished and iconic Higher Education Institutions, occupying a crucial role in the emergence and preservation of the intellectual heritage of Africa. UFH is located in the Eastern Cape Province, one of the most scenic regions in South Africa.
The geographic location of the university provides the perfect environment for urban-rural integration and is ideally placed to respond to the development needs of the region, linking the university to the regional, national and African society and economy. Its main campus is based in Alice, in the Nkonkobe local municipality of the Amathole District. It boasts two other campuses in Bhisho and East London, which are geographically separated by a distance of some 60km, with a total distance of 120 km between Alice and East London.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
The department of Development Studies, on behalf of the university, has co-offered the Master of Policy Studies (MPS) programme with the Universities of Zimbabwe and the national University of Lesotho from 1995 to 2003. Over 150 students from different countries on the African continent including Mauritius and Canada went through and graduated in the programme. The three universities were working together with SAPES Trust in Zimbabwe who were the managers of the MPS programme. The University of Fort Hare was responsible for producing certificates and academic transcripts for the students in the programme in addition to accreditation. Some staff members at Fort Hare were also responsible for teaching and research supervision of students. The funding of the programme was sourced from different funders locally and internationally. The programme was more of a capacity development nature for new students and individuals who are in decision making positions in different sectors.
The department was also a partner in a research consortium of organisations from five countries, namely, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Norway. The research was a comparative study of the coping mechanisms of HIV/AIDS orphans from the four countries; Norway was a sponsor of the project. This was between 2001 and 2003. The department was the co-ordinator of the programme for the South African input.
The department has in the past hosted students at various times from USA and from Germany who had come to the university for semester courses. We are also working with local municipalities and institutions in capacity building programmes.

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STUDY PROGRAMMES
Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) Social sciences in Development studies

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CONTACT PERSON

Priscilla B. Monyai
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Tel: 27 40 602 2100/2562
Cell: 27 76 473 6793
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Selection Results

EUSA-ID selected 8 Master and PhD applicants for the 3rd Wave of the 3rd Cohort and several staff applicants. For details please have a look at the news part of our website.


EUSA_ID selected 28 applicants for a scholarship for the 1nd and 2nd Wave of the 3rd Cohort 2015/2016! For details have a look at the news part of our website.

EUSA_ID selected 18 applicants for a scholarship for the 2nd cohort 2015! For details please have a look at the news part of our website.

EUSA_ID selected 29 applicants for a scholarship for the 1st cohort in 2014. For details please have a look at the news part of our website
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Online Application

The 3rd call for applications will be open end of June 2015. In order to get more information about the application procedure, please refer to the "How to apply section".

News

22.-25.04.2015
Mid-term meeting of EUSA_ID as well as the meeting of the selection committee took place at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

31.07.-01.08.2014
Pre departure event took place in Cape Town, at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).

08.05. 2014
The Meeting of the Selection Committee took place in Cape Town/ South Africa.

10.10.–11.10. 2013

The EUSA_ID kick off meeting took place in Bordeaux. All 13 university partners and 3 associated partners were represented.

01.10.–02.10. 2013

Dr. Gabriele Bäcker (RUB) and Prof. Julian May (UWC) took part in the Erasmus Mundus Coordinators' Conference in Brussels.

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