THE CHALLENGE OF ACADEMIC EDUCATION: AN EXCAVATION STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE ISSUES THAT IMPACT ON THE ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN HISTORICALLY AFRICAN UNIVERSITY

This study explores students' perceptions of the issues that impact on academic development !n a Historically African University with the purpose of developing appropriate transformational strategies that will assist in fundamentally improving the situation. This may imply two things, namely, that looking at the problems that impact on academic development in an Historically African University, may be restating the obvious; and that developing appropriate transformational strategies may suggest a utopian exercise. However, those familiar with the University of the North and comparable institutions will harbour no surprises that this study by a graduate of the institution, and one with a number of years' involvement with the University attempts to identify the problems and suggest strategies for contending and handling the situation.