Executive Director - Quality Assurance
Professor Emmanuel Chabata
Emmanuel Chabata is the Executive Director for Quality Assurance and Professional Development (QA & PD), at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). He is a Professor of Linguistics and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oslo, Norway. He obtained a Master of Arts, a Bachelor of Arts Special Honours and a Bachelor of Arts General degree from the UZ. He joined the UZ as a Teaching Assistant in 1997, became a permanent Research Fellow in 2000, a Senior Research Fellow in 2012, an Associate Research Professor in 2015 and a Full Professor in 2024. He was the Acting Director at the African Languages Research Institute from 2012 to 2020. He became the Academic Programmes Specialist in the QA & PD Directorate in 2020 and later became the Acting Executive Director of the same Directorate in June 2023 and the Executive Director in October 2023.
His current area of research and work is Quality Assurance and Professional Development in Higher Education where he has made significant contributions institutionally, nationally and regionally. For example, in his capacity as the Quality Assurance - Academic Programmes Specialist, and together with colleagues in the Directorate, he spearheaded preparations for accreditation of the UZ’s new academic programmes with the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) in 2020. He also led preparations and processes leading to the re-accreditation of UZ by ZIMCHE in December 2023. He has facilitated at numerous quality assurance workshops within the UZ, some of which include programme development and module designing, induction of new lecturers, development of standard operating procedures and Education 5.0 innovative teaching and learning methodologies. He has also participated in some of ZIMCHE activities, including being a peer reviewer and Team leader in institutional and academic audits.
His other research interests are in Lexicography, Terminology Development, Computational Linguistics, Translation, Onomastics and Language Planning and Policy where he has done a lot of practical work and published widely. He has also been a visiting scholar and external examiner at various local, regional and international universities, some of which include the Midlands State University and Zimbabwe Open University in Zimbabwe, University of Botswana, University of Zambia, University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, University of Namibia, Tswane University of Technology, University of Pretoria, University of Witwatersrand and University of Zululand in South Africa, University of Oslo in Norway, Renmin University of China, Northeast Normal University in China and University of Wisconsin in the United States of America.
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