Muavia Gallie - Vice President

I am currently self-employed as a turn-around strategist, doing work with the Tswane University of Technology on education management, consulting for the Commonwealth Secretariate on teacher and principal standards, and doing turn around work at school and district level.  Before, I was an extra-ordinary senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, and also do consultancy with for numerous education institutions.  In 2008, I was the Academic Manager of the Executive Leadership Programme at the University of Witwatersrand for one year, and also I served the South African Council for Educators as the Director since 2001 for seven years.

I started my teaching career in 1985, at a secondary school in the Bonteheuwel community, Cape Town. I hold a Doctoral, Masters and Honours Degree, an Advance Diploma in Education and a Teaching Diploma in Commerce, a Bachelors Degree (Economics and Psychology), as well as a Certificate in Computer Management and Literacy.
 
I served as Chairpersons of the ETDPSeta, and a member of the Quality Assurance committee (ETDQA). I am currently the Chairperson of the Generic Assessor SGB of SAQA, and also a member of the Partnership in Learning forum (Microsoft SA), and the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association. I am a board member/ trustee of SchoolNet, and Novalis Ubuntu Institute.
 
Since 1995, I served on the national task team during the formulation of the OBE curriculum, as well as the formulation of the DAS policy. Other policy formulation involvement processes include the Assessor policy, the Skills Development Levy policy, and the CPTD policy. My recent work focuses on the development of an Integrated Information and Communication Technology System that is based on a GIS platform for Educational Districts.
 
My research interests include turning around dysfunctional and underperforming education systems, designing curriculum management systems, conceptualising and implementing information and communication technology systems in education, the leadership, management and administration of education as school level, teaching and learning systems, teacher development and support systems, human resource management and utilization and organizational development systems.