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DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Key Performance Indicators
Target Year 2019
Audited 2019
Target Year 2020
Achieved 2020
Perfor- mance
Reasons for Deviation
RESEARCH OUTPUT
Research master’s graduates
165
169.00
160
170.50
DUT has potential to do better here, but with the lockdown there was more time to focus on student supervision and less stress for supervisors to meet both teaching and learning as well as supervision requirements.
Doctoral graduates
32
45.00
37
60
DUT has potential to do better here, but still suffers from a deficit in the number of supervisors to take on PhD candidates. However, this also increased due to more supervisors and students focusing mainly on their research during the lockdown.
Number of research outputs
491
616.92
531
827.54
This is linked to the increase in publications, Ms and Ds and is due to increased productivity, especially during lockdown when researchers could focus on write-ups. The Research and Postgraduate Support interventions on publication writing, supervisor support and grant writing also helped increase this indicator.
Research output per instructional and research staff
0.72
1.01
0.78
1.23
The ration is linked to the increase in research publications.
Graduates: PG
224.00
228.00
240
241
This ratio is linked to the increase in PG numbers.
Number of postdoctoral fellows
25
34
30
44
Allocated more funding to recruit postdocs in 2020 as part of the efforts to increase our research outputs and capacity within DUT.
Ratio of instructional and research to support staff
1:1.30
1:1.47
1:1.40
1:1.45
Although the achievement is within 2% of the target, the University monitors this indicator carefully; the HR data show that more vacancies of support staff have been filled than of instructional/research staff.
3rd stream income
R68 294 933
R104 305 179
R127 267 582
R110 179 711
Due to COVID-19 a new internal target of R58 359 666 was considered. However, we exceeded the internally revised target, resulting in achievement of close to the approved target. Grants confirmed late in the year, Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) funding and donor funding made up the increase. COVID-19 restrictions meant that we could not achieve the original target. Despite COVID-19, we surpassed the figure achieved in 2019.
Professor TZ Mthembu Mr NZW Madinane
Vice-Chancellor and Principal Chairperson of Council
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