Xoliswa Mtose

Xoliswa Mtose is a South African academic and university administrator. She is Vice Chancellor of the University of Zululand.

Quotes

• When you come up to postgraduate level, you do get that the numbers percentage of female to male students become smaller. By the time you come to PhD level, that percentage reduces. It’s almost like looking at a pipeline and that pipeline leaks as you go along before you reach the end of the pipe itself.
  • [1] Xoliswa on female education

• I am incredibly grateful for the hard work and dedication of our administrative staff, they are an essential part of our university community, and I am proud to have them on our team.
  • [2]

• Many women were afraid to report abuse,

especially when the perpetrator is a male, because they have been socialised into believing that re- porting such is wrong.

• • [3]

• You do not have to be collaborators. You do not

have to be an abuser to yourself by keeping quiet.

• • [4]

• Part of the issue is whether higher education institutions create an enabling environment for female academics to thrive.
  • [5] Xoliswa on female education
• You have made valuable contribution to the Faculty of Education and for that we will forever remember you. You have served this institution with wisdom, with respect and the humility that is in you. Your return to the university in 2016 was a confirmation that we believe in developing our own timber and today I want to say that we are planting you where you are going but you will return to this university once more.
  • Bidding farewell to a phenomenal leader
• I can say that you managed to increase staff research capacity and the development of staff in the faculty. You generated research outputs by promoting co-publishing, in particular. Your mentoring skills and supervision skills made such great impact for that faculty. You nurtured emerging scholars (and) promoted knowledge dissemination through encouraging students to attend conferences and present papers and attend seminars, particularly masters and doctoral workshops. We have seen the fruits of the work that you have done
  • Bidding farewell to a phenomenal leader