Prof Takalani Samuel Mashau is an Associate Professor at University of Venda in the School of Education, Department of Educational Management. He has been school teacher for years where he acted as a school principal for two years at the beginning of his teaching career. His passion for Comparative Education started when he was doing B.Ed. (Hons) at the then Potchefstroom University (North West University). His M.Ed. is in Comparative Education. He joined University of Venda as a lecturer in 2010. He teaches History of Education in undergraduate programmes. In postgraduate programme he teaches Law in Education and Research Methodology. He has presented papers in national and international conferences on different topics related to education and internationalization of education. He has also published several papers and supervised/promoted M. and D.Ed. students/candidates to completion.