CHET's Higher Education Reasearch and Advocacy Network in Africa project (HERANA) set out to investigate the relationship between African higher education and economic development, as well as the relationship between higher education and democracy in Africa.

The findings have been published in a series of papers and reports. University World News canvassed several prominent academics as well as those involved in the project for their responses to the project and its findings.

South Africa’s National Planning Commission published its National Development Plan: Vision for 2030 last month. Higher education was barely mentioned in the previous plan, but this time it is afforded a prominent role. Here, three of the academics who shaped the new vision’s higher education input describe on the University Wolrd News website the research, thinking and goals behind the plan, which will inform higher education policy in the years to come.

South Africa's National Planning Commission (NPC) published its National Development Plan: Vision 2030 on Friday 11 November 2011.

The Plan makes several proposals regarding the transformation of higher education in South Africa, many drawn from the NPC-commissioned paper by Dr Nico Cloete (Director, CHET) and Nasima Badsha (CEO, CHEC).

CHET has published the case study reports which contain the detailed data and analysis for each of the eight countries and universities studied as part of the HERANA project's research on the relationship beween higher education and development in Africa.

In the most recent issue of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning's newsletter (vol. XXIX no. 2), Nico Cloete, CHET Director, writes on the need to focus more on post-school investment...