Full Description
Transforming Universities in South Africa: Pathways to Higher Education Reform responds to the pressing need to comprehensively review the post-apartheid experience and assess where South Africa's higher education stands across the continent and globally, particularly within the country's efforts to overcome decades of socio-economic imbalances.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Michael Cross and Shireen Motala
2 Transformation of Higher Education in South Africa, 1995-2016: Current Limitations and Future Possibilities
Ihron Rensburg
3 Transformation Revisited: Twenty Years of Higher Education Policy in South Africa
Lis Lange
4 Higher Education Transformation, Inequality and Educational Leadership-In-Becoming
Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid
5 Global Africa: Nelson Mandela and the Meaning of Decolonising Knowledge and Universities - Problems and Opportunities
Ihron Rensburg
6 Decolonising Universities in South Africa: Backtracking and Revisiting the Debate
Michael Cross
7 The Learning Challenge in South African Higher Education
Crain Soudien
8 Changing the Doctoral Education Curriculum: A Comparative Study of Drama and Performance Studies and Chemical Engineering
Thiruveni Moodley and Michael Anthony Samuel
9 South Africa's Opportunity: Crafting a Differentiated Higher Education System
Ihron Rensburg
10 General Trends and Impact of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa
Shireen Motala and Solomon Arulraj David
11 Measuring Equity of Access to Higher Education in South Africa: Considerations and Possibilities
Kirti Menon
12 Conclusion
Ihron Rensburg and Shireen Motala
Index
