Applications are now open for the 2025 Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) Future Professors Programme (FPP). The Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) Future Professors Programme (FPP) prepares promising early and mid-career academics to advance to the level of professor across the disciplines. As such, this call seeks to identify the country’s most talented young academics to benefit from a structured and intense programme aimed at accelerating their readiness for the professoriate.
ELIGIBILITY
Academic staff are encouraged to apply for this opportunity. In terms of the summarised criteria, a candidate should:
- hold a doctorate
- have demonstrable evidence of some academic achievement (signalling advancement towards the senior ranks of the academy in their scholarly work), and
- be permanently employed in an academic capacity, or an equivalent academic appointment.
Candidate attributes
- A deep commitment to the pursuit of advanced scholarship.
- Evidence of productive and imaginative scholarly work.
- Early signs of purpose and direction in academic work.
- Novelty, richness and a willingness to take risks in the pursuit of large ideas.
- Personal qualities of self-awareness, teachability and the need to grow.
- Evidence of resilience and persistence in the face of setbacks.
- A willingness to benefit from and contribute to a community of scholars
DEADLINE: February 25, 2025
To apply and for more information, apply here.
