Diakanyo Ngele

Diakanyo (Thea) Ngele has over 10 years' experience gained from working in curriculum development across higher education institutions in South Africa. In addition, she is well versed in teaching online. Thea has presented her research at conferences internationally and nationally and she holds a Masters in Administration in Public Administration from the University of South Africa and is currently pursuing her PhD in Public Administration. She pursued her undergraduate and honours qualification at the University of Pretoria. She is passionate about research, especially research pertaining to curriculum development with the goal of improving and strengthening the development of higher education curricula for the future generation.

• Awarded a bursary from the University of Pretoria for being part of the top 3 students in my Honours class.
• Awarded an NRF bursary in 2016 and 2017 for my Masters studies from the Department of Public Administration and Management at Unisa.
• Qualified Assessor and Moderator from Regenesys Business School.
• Selected out of 4 people to be part of the Departmental Talent Pool at UNISA (Department of Public Administration).

• Gender: Female
• Nationality: South African

• The Throughput Rate of MPA students at Unisa from 2005-2014, 9th Annual SPMA International Conference, 10/29/15
• The Throughput Rate of MPA students at Unisa from 2005-2014, FameLab, 03/03/16
• Theory versus Practice in Public Administration, FameLab, 02/14/17
• Theory versus practice in Public Administration, 10th Annual SPMA International Conference, 10/26/17
• The Throughput Rate of the MPA Qualification at the University of South Africa from 2005-2014, The IASIA Conference, 07/22/19
• The Public Administration qualification: Is it fit for purpose? A case of a South African University, Resilient Urban Communities Conference, 12/05/22