DESCRIPTION

A radical reform of South African higher education started after the first democratic elections of 1994; higher education was confronted with social, political and economic demands of a kind not encountered during the apartheid era.

Change in higher education institutions followed a variety of routes, accentuating certain apartheid disparities as well as creating new differences on the institutional landscape.

This study looks at measures taken in the Eastern Cape to provide the higher educational institutions in a region of high poverty and high unemployment with strategic co-operation scenarios for post-school education (Fort Hare College & Rhodes University, two of South Africa's historic institutions of higher education, are both in the Eastern Cape).

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding.

The studies address the environment for higher education in each country; the institutional framework (governance, finance, curricula, staffing, equity, students, etc); and ongoing efforts to turn challenges into transformation.

The first three studies, on the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University, and a national study of higher education in Mozambique have been published. Further studies are in preparation on Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. There will be an additional study on the subject of gender in higher education in Nigeria. The Kenyan study will include the fast-growing private universities. An overall volume of lessons learned will complete the project.

CONTENTS

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Acronyms, Abbreviations & Definitions

Notes on Authors

Preface to the Series

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

1. Transforming South African Higher Education 1990 - 2003: Goals, Policy Initiatives & Critical Challenges & Issues - Saleem Badat

Introduction

Context

Principles, purposes and key goals

Policy initiatives, products and outcomes

Critical issues and key challenges

Conclusion

 

2. Equity & Development in Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education - Nico Cloete

Introduction

Equity

Development

Conclusion

 

3. Strategic Co-operation Scenarios for Post-School Education in the Eastern Cape - Pundy Pillay

Introduction

Higher education within the socio-economic and schooling environment of the Eastern Cape

Student inflows and outflows

Higher education challenges in the Eastern Cape

Research capacities and collaboration

Student choice behaviour

Leadership view on collaboration

Emerging scenarios

Government restructuring

 

4. Assessing the Eastern Cape Study - Teboho Moja

Introduction

Assessment process

Different participants, different expectations

Direct and indirect use of research

Uses and benefits of the study

Lessons from the study

Conclusion