CHET has undertaken a systematic programme on performance indicators in higher education starting with the first performance indicator report on the South African higher education system published in 2000: Higher Education Transformation: Assessing Performance (Cloete & Bunting, 2000) (see publications) This report attempted to monitor the progress of transformation, defined mainly in terms of the Government’s 1997 White Paper.

The much more extensive evaluation expounded in Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities in South Africa (see publications) assessed change during the first five years post-1994.

In 2004, CHET published Developing Performance Indicators for Higher Education (Bunting & Cloete, 2004) (see publications) which explores approaches to the assessment of performance, and by implication, performance indicators from 1999 to 2004 in South Africa.

The current efficiency indicator project entails an intellectual endeavour to better understand efficiency measurements in higher education in Africa, accompanied by the building of capacity and an increased awareness of efficiency issues in participating countries. The project will, with international participation, do an analysis of data in a number of African countries (Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania), build capacity through experts working together, and raise awareness of the issues through country specific seminars and the distribution of reports.
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Programme documents
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For further information, please contact Nico Cloete.