Qualifications

dr.scient. (Doctoral Degree of Natural Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark).
[The dr.scient. is an academic title above the PhD and is awarded for a thesis that contributes in a significant way to the development of international research within the given domain.]

MPhil (Mathematical Education) (University of Cambridge, UK)

BEd (cum laude) (University of Natal, Durban) [Postgraduate Honours degree]

BAHon (Physical Education: B (70-74%) (University of Durban-Westville)

University Higher Diploma in Education (with Distinction)
(University of Durban-Westville)

BA (University of Durban-Westville)
Majors in Mathematics (with Distinctions in Mathematics I; II and III) and Physical Education (with Distinctions in I)

Doctor Honoris Causa “for her distinguished efforts in the field of natural science”
(Honorary doctorate awarded in the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark)
“Assessment of Professor Renuka Vithal for the title of Doctor Honoris Causa
RV is a world-wide recognized scholar for her strong contribution to the development of critical mathematics education in developing countries. Her unique scholarship has helped illuminating the relationship between the teaching and learning of mathematics and processes of democratization in deeply unequal societies such as South Africa. Her work is gaining momentum not only in the developing world but also in the develop world as discussions on the importance of the teaching and learning of mathematics for social and technological development are central to political and economic processes in global societies. The impact of her work is being seen in publications from a diversity of researchers who build on her scholarship.Besides her research excellence, she has very successfully implemented many of her own theoretical ideas in the processes of change in South African higher education in general, and in the process of democratization of her own university, in particular. She stands out as an educational scholar who bridges research and leadership/innovation practice demonstrates a double quality in being able to illuminate and drive research-based educational change in practice.”