LAW CLINIC UKZN
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Keep up to date with the latest media releases from UKZN through various media channels. A PACT is an agreement; a compact and a covenant between sovereigns. The UKZN PACT is a significant milestone in the life of our university. It is the product of a collaborative initiative between students and the broader university community since the merged university was born in The PACT responds to the declared need for recognition of the rights and responsibilities of both staff and students to a common goal with respect to quality teaching and learning. The PACT represents a documented commitment of the UKZN community, binding all members to dedicate themselves to promoting the common goals of respect, dignity and commitment to quality education. The PACT symbolises a beacon which guides all members of the university community, the staff (academic, management and support) and students in an honour code. The aim is to present a written reference point which could be interpreted, critiqued and debated as a way of ensuring a focus on what constitutes quality teaching and learning, and how it could be achieved. Several versions of the document have been circulated within the University structures, and this shorter more concise version was finally endorsed by all sectors of the university community. The intention is that this precise enunciation of the UKZN PACT be engaged and displayed widely within the university community: publicised student diaries, faculty handbooks; as posters and banners to be displayed within lecture halls, University academic and public spaces, and on websites and the communication portals of the University\. two permanent academic employees from each school duly elected by each such school\. a fellow of the University who is a permanent member of the academic staff of the University, elected by the fellows. The new university brings together the rich histories of both the former Universities. The University of Durban-Westville was established in the 1960s as the University College for Indians on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay. Student numbers grew rapidly and in 1971, the College was granted University status. The following year, the newly-named University of Durban-Westville moved into its modern campus in Westville and was a site of major anti-apartheid struggle. Founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, the University of Natal was granted independent University status in 1949 owing to its rapid growth in numbers, its wide range of courses and its achievements in and opportunities for research. In 1946, the government approved a Faculty of Agriculture in Pietermaritzburg and, in 1947, a Medical School for African, Indian and Coloured students in Durban.