Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa: 

Research into the Nexus of Higher Education and Economic and Social Development and Democracy in Africa

HERANA II is in full swing, and the HERANA Democracy, the University and Student Development project has also entered its first phase of developing a new survey module to measure the extent to which students are engaged in activities that contribute to citizenship education.

The module draws on the existing HERANA Phase 1 student surveys and 'plucks' into the SERU-UCT questionnaire. SERU stands for Student Experience in the Research University and is a survey tool to measure various aspects of student engagement. SERU was started and is hosted by the CSHE at University of California (UC) Berkeley. SERU-UCT represents an African leg of the SERU International Consortium, which includes research universities on every continent. While the SERU-UCT survey is developed at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as part of its Masikhulisane project, the citizenship module is being developed by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) in close collaboration with UCT and will be implemented not just at that university but more likely at several of the HERANA-partner institutions across Africa.

For more info on HERANA check the CHET website.