Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) Future Professors Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 25, 2025

Applications are open for the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) Future Professors Programme 2025. The Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) Future Professors Programme (FPP) prepares promising early and mid-profession teachers to advance to the extent of professor throughout the disciplines. As such, this name seeks to determine the nation’s most gifted younger teachers to profit from a structured and intense programme geared toward accelerating their readiness for the professoriate.

Program Components

• Baseline Evaluation: This preliminary evaluation helps every scholar gauge their present standing inside their self-discipline and offers personalised suggestions for future development and growth
• Residential Series: Fellows will interact in a sequence of seminars, retreats and teaching classes. These immersive and scholarly group enhancing experiences are complemented by particular person alternatives tailor-made to every participant’s distinctive wants and aspirations.
• International Engagement: Scholars could have the prospect to take part in worldwide actions that align with their particular mental mission.

Eligibility

Academic employees are inspired to apply for this OPPORTUNITY. In phrases of the summarised standards, a candidate ought to:

• maintain a doctorate;
• have demonstrable proof of some educational achievement (signalling development in direction of the senior ranks of the academy of their scholarly work), and
• be completely employed in an educational capability, or an equal educational appointment.

The following might strengthen the chance of choice, nevertheless, these should not unique necessities for making use of:

• black and girls students;
• lecturers and senior lecturers, and/or
• an NRF score or related scholarly standing.

Selection Criteria

• A deep dedication to the pursuit of superior scholarship.
• Evidence of productive and imaginative scholarly work.
• Early indicators of goal and route in educational work.
• Novelty, richness and a willingness to take dangers within the pursuit of massive concepts.
• Personal qualities of self-consciousness, teachability and the necessity to develop.
• Evidence of resilience and persistence within the face of setbacks.
• A willingness to profit from and contribute to a group of students.

Application

Once purposes are obtained, an inside choice course of will observe, the place a most of 5 nominees will likely be submitted to the DHET for consideration. Send your application to the University Capacity Development Programme workforce at [email protected].

Download the application form

For extra info, go to DHET Future Professors Programme.