ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE

ACADEMIC SERVICE
Prof Prakash Naidoo was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Administration (since re-named Resources and Planning) of the Vaal University of Technology in July 2001. He began his career as a teacher at the Stanger Secondary and Tongaat Secondaty in the 1980s. In 1990, he took up a lecturer’s appointment at the ML Sultan Technikon in Durban and later became Associate Director in the Department of Accounting. He was appointed Vice Dean of the Faculty in 1997 and as Acting Dean (Dean: Designate) in 1998. In 1999 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at Vaal Triangle Technikon.

QUALIFICATIONS
He studied for a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of Durban Westville in Durban, which he completed in 1978. In1979 he completed a post-graduate higher diploma in education at the same University. In 1982/3 he completed a post graduate degree in Economics (B.Comm-Honours) and a post graduate degree in Accounting (B.Comm-Honours), both at the University of South Africa. In 1997 he completed a Masters degree through the University of Potchefstroom. He completed his PhD in 2003 at Vista University with a thesis titled " An investigation of cost management in tertiary institutions".

ACADEMIC ACTVITIES
In addition to his work experience Prakash has varied experience in various aspects of educationally related matters, served his community in Tongaat in sports and civic matters. He has played and administered sports at all levels. He has been an executive member of SAFA-Southern Natal, and a former President of Natal High Schools Squash and Swimming Associations. Prakash has also done consulting work for a large number of firms. He holds a practicing professional qualification from the Institute of Commercial and Financial Accountants (CFA - SA) and a practicing professional qualification of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE - USA). He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Business Management (SA). He was also admitted as an International Associate of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in 2005.

He has also presented many papers locally and internationally. The more recent one includes:

2001: The National Plan for Higher Education - A step in the right direction ? at the 11th World Congress on Education in Korea.

2001: A Keynote speaker on "Higher Education collaboration" at the 10th anniversary conference of the European Access Network in Glasgow, Scotland.

2002: The cost effect of planning graduate output rates at the 11th European Access Network conference in Prato, Italy.

2002: Using new cost technologies to manage higher education in South Africa at the 9th International Accounting and Auditing Educatiors in Research conference in Hong Kong.

In 2001 he published in England a chapter Collaboration - the past and the future for higher education in South Africa in a book title "Collaboration to Widen Participation in Higher Education"