Professor Thandwa Mthembu was appointed Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), on 1 January 2007. Before then he had been Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Partnerships and Advancement at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, colloquially known as Wits. He has served in other senior and executive management positions at South African universities, including the then University of Durban Westville (as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and Research) and the then Vista University (as Campus Principal at Welkom).
A PhD in mathematics by formal education, he has published mathematics papers in international journals including a monograph. Over the last 15 years he diversified his scholarly interests to include higher education governance and management, social transformation and public intellectualism, areas in which he has written and published in journals, newspapers and magazines and contributed book chapters. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the East African Social Science Research Review, a journal based in East Africa, but catering for both eastern and southern Africa. He was guest editor of a 2012 special journal issue of the South African Journal of Higher Education.
He is Chairman of the South African Technology Network (SATN), a network of universities of technology and other innovation focused organisations and agencies in South Africa, including Namibia; Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Rural Campus Connection Project, a special ministerial project being implemented by Higher Education South Africa (HESA); Chairman of HESA’s Research and Innovation Strategy Group. He was also Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team on the establishment of a University in the Mpumalanga province, a national project that is currently being implemented; a member of the Ministerial Task Team on the National Youth Service.
Specific Admission information
An application fee, as stipulated in the admission regulations of the CUT, must be paid before the deadline specified in the admission regulations.
Prospective students must provide the Assistant Registrar: Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services with their completed application forms for admission to the CUT as early as possible in the preceding academic year or semester. A non-refundable application fee is payable with each application for admission.
Once the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit have processed the applications, a selection list is drawn up and forwarded to the various faculties.
Upon receipt of the selection lists, the head of the department divide the applications into three (3) categories, namely:
1. Applicants who meet all the admission requirements;
2. Applicants to be subjected to the testing of potential;
3. Applicants who are considered academically unsuccessful.
Applicants falling into the first category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission to the CUT have been successful.
The unsuccessful applicants falling into the third category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission to the CUT have been unsuccessful.
Applicants falling into the second category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission are subject to the testing of potential. The date, time and place of such testing will be clearly indicated.
A PhD in mathematics by formal education, he has published mathematics papers in international journals including a monograph. Over the last 15 years he diversified his scholarly interests to include higher education governance and management, social transformation and public intellectualism, areas in which he has written and published in journals, newspapers and magazines and contributed book chapters. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the East African Social Science Research Review, a journal based in East Africa, but catering for both eastern and southern Africa. He was guest editor of a 2012 special journal issue of the South African Journal of Higher Education.
He is Chairman of the South African Technology Network (SATN), a network of universities of technology and other innovation focused organisations and agencies in South Africa, including Namibia; Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Rural Campus Connection Project, a special ministerial project being implemented by Higher Education South Africa (HESA); Chairman of HESA’s Research and Innovation Strategy Group. He was also Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team on the establishment of a University in the Mpumalanga province, a national project that is currently being implemented; a member of the Ministerial Task Team on the National Youth Service.
Specific Admission information
An application fee, as stipulated in the admission regulations of the CUT, must be paid before the deadline specified in the admission regulations.
Prospective students must provide the Assistant Registrar: Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services with their completed application forms for admission to the CUT as early as possible in the preceding academic year or semester. A non-refundable application fee is payable with each application for admission.
Once the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit have processed the applications, a selection list is drawn up and forwarded to the various faculties.
Upon receipt of the selection lists, the head of the department divide the applications into three (3) categories, namely:
1. Applicants who meet all the admission requirements;
2. Applicants to be subjected to the testing of potential;
3. Applicants who are considered academically unsuccessful.
Applicants falling into the first category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission to the CUT have been successful.
The unsuccessful applicants falling into the third category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission to the CUT have been unsuccessful.
Applicants falling into the second category are notified in writing by the Academic Structure and Student Enrolment Services Unit that their applications for admission are subject to the testing of potential. The date, time and place of such testing will be clearly indicated.