About Us

 Student Learning Unit

The Student Learning Unit  is located on the Cape Town and the Bellville campus.  Lectures and students who wish to make use of the services offered by the should contact the administrator in Cape Town or the Bellville campus.  We would like to introduce you to the staff in our unit:

Cape Town Campus

Academic Literacy Support

Thembinkosi Mtonjeni

Publications:

Contact Details:

Tel: 021 460 7252

Email: MtonjeniT@cput.ac.za

Publications

Contact Details:

Tel: 021 460 3378

Email: MntuyedwaV@cput.ac.za

Publications:

Student Learning Administrators Cape Town

Contact Details

Tel: 021 460 3610

Email: TshakaO@cput.ac.za

 Contact Details

Tel: 021 460 3604

Email: NdedeM@cput.ac.za

 Bellville Campus

Tutor and TA Training

Xena Cupido is  an Academic Development lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She is located in the Student Learning Unit which forms a part of Fundani: Centre for Higher Education Development. Her responsibilities include the co-ordination and implementation of tutor, mentor and teaching assistant training. She is a committee member of the HELTASA Tutor and Mentor Special Interest Group (SIG). Xena Cupido holds a PhD in Educational Psychology. Her research interest include student engagement and support as well as community engagement.

Publications

Cupido, X., & Norodien-Fataar, N. (2018). Teaching Assistants – a hit or a miss: The development of a teaching assistant programme to support academic staff at a university. Perspectives in Education. Vol 36(1):14-29

Pather, S. Norodien-Fataar, N. Cupido, X. and Mkonto, N. (2017). First Year Students Experience of Access and Engagement at a University of Technology, Journal of Education. Issue, 69. 161-184.

Cupido, X. (2017). A World Café Approach to designing meaningful engagement between lecturers and teaching assistants, Paradigms Vol. 20: 3-10

Cupido, X. (2017). Report on the University of Nairobi Peace Forum held on December 8–9, 2016. http://www.tokyofoundation.org/sylff/18523

Daniels, P., Adonis, T., Cupido, X, (2013) Embracing community knowledge through service-learning based substance abuse training programmes. The Fifth International Symposium on Service- Learning, Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University of Indianapolis (UIndy).  Service-Learning across the globe: From Local to Transnational.pg 73-74 ISBN: 978-0-620-59083-9.

Contact Details:

Tel: 021 959 6211

Email: cupidox@cput.ac.za

Academic Literacy Support 

Puleng Sefalane-Nkohla is an Academic Literacy Lecturer with vast experience in leading and coordinating the Writing Centre at CPUT. She is the member of the Western Cape Writing Centres Association (WCWA), the HIgher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa(HELTASA), the South African Council of Educators, the Reading Association of Southern Africa, the Writing Centre Special Interest Group(SIG) of HELTASA, the  South African Society of Engineering Educators (SASEE), the South African Applied Linguistics Association(SAALA), the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa(LSSA), and the SAALT. Her interests are in student writing in higher education, second language writing, academic development of students and leadership in higher education. Puleng in the convenor of the Paradigms  an internal journal at CPUT.  She graduated with a Masters in Language Technology as  her highest qualification.  Currently she is pursuing a Masters in Philosophy in Higher Education at Stellenbosch University.

Publications

Mtonjeni, T., & Sefalane-Nkohla, P.,(2017) Meaning-making through writing in the applied sciences: A metadiscourse analysis of authorial choices in students’ academic texts. In Writing Centres in Higher Education: Working in and across the disciplines. First Edition. SUN PReSS, a division of AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Dippenaar, H., Matthews, M., Sefalane-Nkohla, P.,  Mtonjeni, T., & Katiya, M(2017) Exploring computer-based language learning to develop academic literacies of first-year students.  Paradigms Vol. 20: 23-32.

Katiya, M., Mtonjeni, T. & Sefalane-Nkohla, P. (2015) Making Sense of Errors Made by Analytical Chemistry Students in Their Writing. Journal of Language Teaching and Research. Vol 6, (3):  490-503

Tel: 021 9596724

Email: sefalaneP@cput.ac.za

Mathematics Support

Name: Frikkie George

Staff number: 3009 7352

Post: Lecturer (Mathematics support)

Qualifications: M.Ed    – UWC, 2014

B.Ed      – UWC, 2010

ACE      – US, 2009

B.Sc(Ed) – UWC, 1995

Matric  – NCED, 1989

Employment history:    Teacher (mathematics & sciences)        – WCED, 1994 to2009

HOD (mathematics & sciences)              – WCED, 2010 to 2015

Lecturer (mathematics and sciences)     – Northlink, 2015 to 2018

Lecturer (mathematics support)            – CPUT, 2018

Student Learning Administrators Bellville

Contact Details

Jean Collins Tel :021 9596040

Email: collinsJ@cput.ac.za

To learn more about how to enrol students onto the tutor or TA programme please click here