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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2002) Quality with access in South African higher education: the challenge for transformation. (HERSDA quality conversations. Annual international HERSDA conference, Perth, Western Australia, 7-10 July).

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Akoojee, S. & Nkomo, M. (2007) Access and quality in South African higher education: the twin challenges of transformation. South African Journal of Higher Education. 21(3):385-399.

Higher education transformation in South Africa requires a synergy of creative strategies to engage issues of redress. Access to higher education remains one mechanism for achieving this in South African higher education. While there is clearly a need to enable access by improving student success (access with success), as opposed to simply ensuring their participation (access as participation),...

Amoateng, A.Y., Barber, B.K. & Erickson, L.D. (2006) Family predictors of adolescent substance use: the case of high school students in the Cape Metropolitan area, Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 18(1):7-15.

Family predictors of tobacco and alcohol use were studied in random samples of school-going Black, Coloured, and White adolescents (total N=1,800) in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. The subjects ranged in age from 14 to 17 years, with a mean age of 15.95 years. Logistic regression analysis of the data showed invariance across the three racial groups in terms of the specific family variables th...

Asmal, K. & James, W. (2002) Education and democracy in South Africa. In: Asmal, K. & James, W. (eds). Spirit of the nation: reflections on South Africa's educational ethos. Cape Town: New Africa Education. 174-189.

Badroodien, A. (2004) Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA support to education and skills development (SESD) programme: second informative impact assessment: FET provincial directorates. (Paper presented at the SESD programme evaluation: a mid-term dissemination seminar, HSRC, Pretoria, 23 July).

Badroodien, A. (2003) Private higher education: a highly contested good?. In A contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (eds). Chestnut Hill: Boston College and PROPHE Center for International Higher Education. 121-124.

This paper explores the role and growth of private higher education in South Africa by reflecting on the ideas and opinions expressed during a panel discussion at the Private Higher Education Colloquium. They reflected competing positions on public and private higher education provision.

Badroodien, N.M.A. (2002) Local labour environments and further education and training (FET) colleges: three case studies. (Technical college responsiveness project. Presented at the HSRC conference on technical college responsiveness, Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg 7-8 October).

Badroodien, N.M.A. (2002) Local labour environments and further education and training (FET) colleges: three case studies: executive summary and transparancies. (Technical college responsiveness project. Presented at the HSRC conference on technical college responsiveness, Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg 7-8 October).

Bennett, J. & Reddy, V. (2009) Researching the pedagogies of sexualities in South African higher education. International Journal of Sexual Health. 21(4):239-252.

The article explores the approaches taken by South African institutions of higher education to the teaching of sexualities and gender. In a national context in which issues of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, legal reforms around reproductive and sexual rights, and critical discussions around the meanings of culture and sexuality abound, one might expect that...

Bennett, J. & Reddy, V. (2007) "Feeling the disconnect": teaching sexualities and gender in South African higher education. Feminist Africa. 9:43-62.

The article explores how, where, and why teaching occurs in the areas of gender and sexualities in South African Higher Education sites. The article maps the terrain of disciplinary engagement with sexualities and gender in South African Higher Education, with introductory research into the teaching of sexualities and gender in higher education institutions in South Africa. Central to the artic...

Bennett, J., Reddy, V. & Bardill, L. (2006) International research project on pedagogies of gender & sexuality in higher education: South Africa. (Paper presented at the 2nd International Meeting: Researching the Incorporation of Sexualities in the Academic Curricula of Universalities in Asia, Africa & Latin America Project, November).

Breier, M. & Wildschut, A. (2008) Changing gender profile of medical schools in South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 98(7):557-560.

Background. Since 1994, higher education policy has been committed to equity of access for all, irrespective of race and gender. Objectives. We investigated progress towards these goals in the education of medical doctors, with an emphasis on gender. Methods. Databases from the Department of Education (DoE), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and University of Cape Town (UCT)...

Breier, M. & Mabizela, M. (2008) Higher education. In: Kraak, A. & Press, K. (eds). Human resources development review 2008: education, employment and skills in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 278-299.

This review of the public higher education (HE) systems shows that although the system has made major advances towards greater equity and efficiency, the legacy of apartheid lingers on. The chapter considers the flows of students into and out of HE in the review period and the implications of enrolment and graduation trends for the achievement if national goals, as well as the important issue ...

Cakata, Z. (2007) Review: "the African university in the 21st century". Feminist Africa. 9:121-126.

The following is a critical review of South African Journal of Higher Education (19), special themed issue of 2005, and addresses the changing context of higher education in South Africa. The review examines a selection of the published papers in the journal which take stock of the higher education context in Africa. The review highlights some of the key themes in the papers, their strengths an...

Cherry, J. & Christie, C. (2003) The focus of an undergraduate social science curriculum for Southern Africa: historical consciousness, human rights and social and development issues. In A tale of three countries: social sciences curriculum transformations in Southern Africa. Naude, P. & Cloete, N. (eds). Lansdowne: Juta. 128-138.

In this paper the authors revisit the idea of the university in the southern African context, and ask the question: what should be the focus of a social science degree in this context? They draw on the experience of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Port Elizabeth in order to reach some conclusions about what should constitute the basis of a general undergraduate social science curricul...

Cosser, M. (2011) Pathways through the education and training system: do we need a new model?. Perspectives in Education. 29(2):70-79.

Analyses conducted by the Education, Science and Skills Development (ESSD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reveal major areas of misalignment in the South African education pathway system. The majority of learners entering Further Education and Training (FET) colleges, nursing training institutions and learnerships have already achieved National Senior Certifica...

Cosser, M. (2010) Pathways through the education and training system: do we need a new model?. (Paper presented at the HSRC Seminar Series, 27 July).

Analyses conducted by the Education, Science and Skills Development (ESSD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reveal major obstacles in the education pathway system. The majority of learners entering Further Education and Training (FET) colleges, nursing training institutions and learnerships have already achieved National Senior Certificates prior to enrolment. Hi...

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Cosser, M. (2010) Race and opportunity in the transition from school to higher education in South Africa. In: Centeno, M.A. & Newman, K.S. (eds). Discrimination in an unequal world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 108-125.

This chapter begins by setting out the parameters within which the notion of discrimination in learning pathways can be considered. It proceeds to compare the findings of a 2001 baseline study of the higher education aspirations of grade 12 learners, across all nine provinces of South Africa, with the higher education enrollment profile for 2002. The comparison is then juxtaposed against a se...

Cosser, M. (2010) The skills cline: higher education and the supply-demand complex in South Africa. Higher Education. 59:43-53.

This paper investigates the relationship between Grade 12 learner preferences for study in higher education, student enrolment in higher education programmes, and student graduations in different programme areas, considering the match between these supply-side indicators and a forecast of skills demand in South Africa as a first step towards ascertaining the extent to which the higher educatio...

Cosser, M. (2010) The skills cline: higher education and the supply-demand complex in South Africa. (Paper presented at the National Career Guidance Conference, Saint George Hotel, Centurion, 13 May).

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Cosser, M. (2010) Uniformity and disjunction in the school-to-higher-education transition. In: Letseka, M., Cosser, M., Breier, M. & Visser, M. Student retention & graduate destination: higher education & labour market access & success. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 11-23.

This chapter focuses on learner aspirations for higher education and on student enrolments within higher education, juxtaposing the two to show the inherent volatility of the youth-to-adulthood transition as young people move from one phase of school to the next and from school into and through the higher education system. The progression of students from all seven institutions involved in the ...

Cosser, M. (2009) Race and opportunity in the transition from school to higher education in South Africa. Journal of Higher Education in Africa. 7(1&2):235-263.

While South Africa is well into its second decade of democracy, higher education opportunities in the country remain different for different race groups. Black African learners are not represented in the first-year higher education enrolment profile (the intake of learners who proceed to higher education directly from school) in relation either to their representation in the general population ...

Cosser, M. (2007) Race and opportunity in the transition from school to higher education in South Africa. (Paper presented at the PIIRS Conference on Global Studies of Discrimination, Princeton University, 19 May).

Cosser, M. (2004) Higher education for the marketplace? The skills supply-demand complex. (Paper presented at the conference "Reinventing the University", at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6-8 November).

Cosser, M. (2004) Pathways from matric. (Paper presented at the HSRC Colloquium on 'Marketing Matric', Sheraton Hotel and HSRC, 2-3 November).

Cosser, M., du Toit, J. & Visser, M. (2004) Settling for less: student aspirations and higher education realities. (The student choice behaviour project, phase 2). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.

This study is the sequel to Phase 1 of the Student Choice Behaviour Project, From School to Higher Education - Factors Affecting the Choices of Grade 12 Learners, published in 2002. The main objective of Phase 1 was to examine learners' choices about entry into higher education institutions and field of study. Phase 2 traces those learners who actually entered higher and further education insti...

Cosser, M. (2003) Intention, opportunity, choice: the transition from school to higher education. (Paper presented at the UNESCO-Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research Conference "Globalization and higher education: implications for North-South dialogue", Oslo, Norway, 26-27 May).

This paper considers some of the key policy implications of two phases of a study of the school-to-higher education (HE) transition conducted. The study investigated, in phase 1, the factors affecting Grade 12 learners' intentions to enter or not to enter HE within three years of the survey date (August 2001), their choice of institution and their choice of field of study. In phase 2, the stu...

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Cosser, M. (2003) Quality through regulation? towards quality provision in the South African private higher education sector. In: Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (eds). A contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. Chestnut Hill: Boston College and PROPHE Center for International Higher Education. 100-110.

Nearly five years have elapsed since the onset of implementation of a process for regulating private higher education provision in South Africa. While the accreditation and registration processes have certainly heightened awareness of issues of quality, it is by no means clear that regulation in and if itself assures quality. It is argues that a culture of quality needs to develop within inst...

Cosser, M.C. (2003) Globalization and higher education: implications for North-South dialogue. (Report on overseas visit at the UNESCO-Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research Conference, Oslo, Norway, 26-27 May 2003).

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Cosser, M.C. & Du Toit, J.L. (2002) From school to higher education?: factors affecting the choices of grade 12 learners. (The student Choice behaviour project, phase 1). Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council.

Despite wide-spread changes in South Africa, participation in higher education has stayed below the 20% benchmark for middle-income countries. Why are technikons still more popular than universities? Why have enrolment figures not increased significantly after ten years of freedom? And why do Grade 12 learners make the study choices they do?This study addresses two key objectives in the Nationa...

Cosser, M.C. (2002) Regulation: accreditation and registration. (Paper presented at the HSRC colloquium understanding higher education, Kopanong conference centre, 9-10 April.).

Cosser, M.C. (2002) Technical college responsiveness project: graduate tracer study: executive summary of research findings. (Presented at the HSRC conference on technical responsiveness, Indaba Hotel, Fourways, 7-8 October and the Department of Education 2nd annual further education and training convention, St. George's Hotel, 15-16 October.).

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Diko, N. (2007) Changes and continuities: implementation of gender equality in a South African high school. Africa Today. 54(1):107-116.

du Toit, R. & Craemer, M.W. (2000) Student's guide to higher and further education in South Africa: with study opportunities and bursaries. 5th ed. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

This guide provides school leavers with comprehensive information on more than 2 900 courses offered at institutions of higher education in South Africa. It also provides information on approximately 760 bursaries available for study at such institutions.

Erasmus, J.C. (2002) Education, training and development practices. (Prepared for ETDP SETA).

Gamble, J. (2004) For the purposes of assessing impact seven key variables or dimensions were identified in which improvements at the college level are likely to result in better education or better employability of learners. (Paper presented at the SESD programme evaluation: a mid-term dissemination seminar, HSRC, 23 July).

Gamble, J., McGrath, S. & Badroodien, A. (2004) Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA support to education and skills development (SESD) programme: second formative impact assessment, May.

Gamble, J. (2004) Overall findings and recommendations. (Paper presented at the SESD programme evaluation: a mid-term dissemination seminar, HSRC, 23 July).

Haasbroek, C.P. (1999) Community colleges in SA phase 2. (Methodology workshop at the HSRC in colloboration with the National Department of Education, the National Institute for Community Education and the government of the Netherlands 14 December 1999).

Programme of the Methodology Workshop on Community Colleges in South Africa, phase 2, held in Pretoria in December 1999.

Habib, A. & Morrow, S. (2006) Research, research productivity and the state in South Africa. Transformation. 62:9-29.

This paper reflects critically on this resolution, reviewing its viability against the backdrop of existing research on the academy, and the production of knowledge in South Africa. It focuses on state spending patterns and institutional linkages in the knowledge sector, higher education and other policies, university reforms, and how these facilitate or undermine research productivity. Based o...

Habib, A.M. (2001) The institutional crisis of the University of the Transkei. Politikon. 28(2):157-179.

The principal thesis of this article is that the University of Transkei?s (UNITRA?s) institutional crisis can bets be understood as a product of the dialectical interplay of structural and agential variables. The primary structural factor informing its crisis is UNITRA?s location in the institutional landscape of higher education ? a location that confines it to servicing financially poor and ...

Harley, K., De Lange, N., Donald, D., Mitchell, C., Moletsane, R., Stuart, J., Theron, L.C., Welch, T. & Wood, L. (2009) Piloting of HIV module in teacher education faculties in the higher education institutions in South Africa. (Commissioned by WYG International, May).

It is not necessary to refer to the HIV/AIDS infection of some 60 million people world-wide in the past 30 years in order to introduce an account of the project? Piloting of HIV Module in Teacher Education Faculties in the Higher Education Institutions in South Africa (hereafter 'HIV Pilot Project'). It is, however, necessary to note that the HIV Pilot Project was conceptualised and mounted in ...

Hlongwane, E.M. (2005) Language policy & informal literacy practices at a higher education institution. (Paper presented at the HSRC Winter Conference, 27-28 July, Birchwood, Benoni).

Howie, S.J. & Pietersen, J.J. (2001) Mathematics literacy of final year students: South African realities. Studies in educational evaluation. 27:7-25.

Human Sciences Research Council (2003) Human resources development review 2003: education, employment and skills in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

The core focus of the Research Programme on Human Resources Development (HRD) at the HSRC is to analyse the pathways of learners from the schooling system into the world of work and further and higher education. The Research Programme's flag-ship project, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, has two components: firstly, the production of a print biennial HRD Review, which will c...

Human, S. (2000) Embedding cognitive education in curriculum 2005: the role of the teacher. (Address to the B.Ed. And HED students at the University of Pretoria 18 April 2000).

This paper explore the concept of cognitive education, explain the relevance of different teacher roles to cognitive education, and present an argument for an embedded approach to cognitive education in South African.

Kahn, M., Vlotman, N., Steyn, C. & Van der Schyff, M. (2007) Innovation policy and higher education in South Africa: addressing the challenge. South African Review of Sociology. 38(2):176-190.

The South African Department of Science and Technology Ten Year Plan seeks to move the system of innovation toward growing a knowledge economy. It sets ambitious targets for scientific production (PhD graduates; world share of scientific publications) whose attainment in part rests on the effectiveness of the universities. The paper commences with a thumbnail sketch of the system of innovation....

Kahn, M. (2006) Going global: working with South Africa's universities. (Paper presented at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 25 August).

Presentation made at the University of Kwazulu-Natal Conference on Globalisation of research and development: Challenges and opportunities for South Africa higher education.

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Kahn, M. & Blankley, W. (2005) The changing face of South Africa's national system of innovation, 1991-2001. Industry & higher education. 19(2):121-130.

The article examines changes in the South African national system of innovation (NSI) since the onset of democracy in 1994. In particular, the recently completed 2001/02 Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D) is used to quantify the shifts in R&D activity for the major business, government and higher education players. The major flows of R&D expenditure are found to be within ra...

Kahn, M. (2005) National survey of research and experimental development (R&D) (2003/04 fiscal year): high-level key results. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, April).

This publication comprises the high-level results of the 2003/04 research and experimental development survey.

Kahn, M. (2003) National Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D) (2001/2): High-level key results. (Commissioned for the Department of Science and Technology, January).

This Report presents the preliminary key results of the 2001/2 R&D Survey that the Knowledge Management research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) conducted for the Department of Science and Technology, South Africa (DST). The Survey was conducted according to the OECD Guidelines embodied in the Frascati Manual and involved a comprehensive examination of four sectors: gove...

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Koen, C. (2006) Higher education and work: setting a new research agenda. (Education, Science and skills Development Research Programme; Occasional Paper; 1). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Higher education and work consists of two papers. The first paper provides an analysis of research on graduate employment in South Africa. It offers a reflection on the state of research on graduate employment and unemployment in South Africa. First, the contents and results of the main types of graduate studies are examined. Then, the value of graduate tracer studies and employer perception st...

Kraak, A. (2006) "Academic drift" in South African universities of technology: beneficial or detrimental?. Perspectives in Education. 24(3):135-152.

This article examines the issue of academic drift with reference to South Africa's former technikons. The shift from technikon to university of Technology and the policy issues which surround these changes, have been viewed pejoratively by many commentators and stakeholders in the technikon sector as "academic drift" with several undesirable educational and economic consequences. It is of cou...

Kraak, A. & Young, M. (2005) Editorial. Journal of education and work. 18(1):5-18.

Kraak, A. (2004) Discursive tensions in South African higher education, 1990 to 2002. Journal of studies in international higher education. 8(3):244-281.

Kraak, A. (2003) Convergence of public and private provision at the further-higher education interface. In A contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (eds). Chestnut Hill: Boston College and PROPHE Center for International Higher Education. 53-64.

This chapter examines the increasing convergence of both public and private provision at the further education and training (FET) and higher education and training (HET) interface in South Africa. The analysis draws heavily from the findings of three recent studies that focus on educational provisioning in three differing institutional locales. When read together, these three texts reveal a v...

Kraak, A. (2001) Equity, development, and new knowledge production: an overview of the new higher education policy environment in post-apartheid South Africa. Equity & excellence in education. 34(3):15-25.

This article traces the influence of an important body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in South African higher education and training. Its main focus is on the emergence of a new mode of knowledge production and its impact on higher education and training; however, questions of equity and economic development ? and their interrelationship ? are key the...

Kraak, A. (ed). (2000) Changing modes: new knowledge production and its implications for higher education in South Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

Kraak, A., Kgaphola, M. & Parekh, A. (2000) Synthesis report of institutional and stakeholder submissions in response to the discussion document of 7/4/2000 of the team on size and shape. (Response of the CHE task team on size and shape 17 May).

Kraak, A.H. (2002) Convergence of public and private provision at the further-higher education interface. Perspectives in education. 20(4):53-65.

Kraak, A.H. (2002) Discursive shifts and structural continuities in South African vocational education and training: 1981-1999. In The history of education under apartheid 1948-1994: the doors of learning and culture shall be opened. Kallaway, P. (ed). Cape Town: Pearson Education. 74-93.

Kraak, A.H. (2002) The importance of intermediate skilling at the further-higher education interface. (Presented at understanding private higher education in South Africa: a colloquium, Kopanong Hotel, Benoni, 9-10 April.).

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Kraak, A.H. (2001) Policy ambiguity and slippage: higher education under new state, 1994-2001. In Education in retrospect. Kraak, A.H. & Young, M. (eds). Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. 85-120.

This chapter traces the contextual and discursive dynamics that have shaped higher education and training policy formation in the period of 1990 to 2001. Although this was a period of significant policy and discursive contestation, much of the differences in position on higher education and training were muted by the consensual politics of early 1990s.

Kraak, A.H. & Mahomed, N. (2001) Qualifications reform in higher education: an evaluation of the work of national standard bodies. In Curriculum restructuring in higher education in post-apartheid South Africa. Bellville: Education Policy Unit, University of the Western Cape. 139-156.

Twelve National Standards Bodies (NSB) were set up in 1998 as part of the larger establishment and full operationalisation of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) ? a statutory body responsible for the registration and quality assurance of all standards and qualifications aligned to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). This chapter provides a case study of six of these NSB?s.

Kraak, A.H. (2000) Changing modes: a brief overview of the mode 2 knowledge debate and its impact on South African policy formulation. In Changing modes: new knowledge production and its implications for higher education in South Africa. Kraak, A.H. (ed). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 1-37.

Kraak, A.H. (2000) Investigating new knowledge production: a South African higher education survey. In Changing modes: new knowledge production and its implications for higher education in South Africa. Kraak, A.H. (ed). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 128-155.

Kruss van der Heever, G.E. (2003) Higher education-industry research partnership: engaging with South Africa forms. (Presentation at the Conference on Higher Education and the City: Implications of Engagement for a Comprehensive University in the Nelson Mandela Metro, Vista University Conference Centre, Port Elizabeth, 16-17 September 2003).

Kruss van der Heever, G.E. (2002) Employment and employability: expectations of higher education responsiveness. (Report for the Council on Higher Education. (Also circulated as background paper at the CHE colloquium)).

Kruss, G. (2011) Conceptions of higher education, development oriented social engagement and innovation in the SADC context. (Commissioned by SARUA, July).

This paper examines two distinct bodies of literature, and argues for an alignment between them to inform a notion of development oriented social engagement. The first section sets out the main conceptual frameworks and methodologies of the national systems of innovation literature in relation to developing countries, the role of higher education and university-industry interaction. The second ...

Kruss, G., Aphane, M., Muller, L. & Manamela, A. (2011) Promoting higher education-industry partnerships and collaborations. (Commissioned by the Research and Innovation Strategy Group, Higher Education South Africa, May).

The global demand for greater social accountability, responsiveness and relevance on the part of higher education has manifest in an emphasis on universities' contribution to the national economy. As knowledge becomes a force determining productivity and competitiveness, the rapid spread of 'open innovation' and collaboration between firms in emerging and advanced economies around the globe has...

Kruss, G. (2010) Towards dialogue: higher education's role in innovation and social engagement. Review of Education, Skills Development and Innovation (RESDI). June:3-6.

New policy in South Africa, after 1994, reflecting global trends, proposed that higher education institutions, as crucial sites of knowledge production and technological innovation, should become more responsive to social and economic needs.

Kruss, G. (2007) Credentials and mobility: an analysis of the profile of students studying at registered private higher education institutions in South Africa. Journal of Higher Education in Africa. 5(2&3):135-154.

Analysing the private higher education sector in relation to the public sector is not helpful, nor is aggregating student data to explain trends in private provision across a national system. This claim is illustrated by analysing the student target group identified by institutions, the profile of students enrolled and the perceptions of students of their motivation for studying at private inst...

Kruss, G. (2006) 'Learning ' through networks in South Africa. In Creating knowledge networks: working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation. Kruss, G. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 127-142.

Kruss, G. (2006) Creating knowledge networks: higher education, industry and innovation in South Africa. Science, technology & society. 11(2):319-349.

This article focuses on a new organisational form that is emerging in the South African context - knowledge networks of higher education, industry and intermediary partners. The article focuses on seven case studies in two high-technology fields and their related industrial sectors - biotechnology, being relatively new, and new materials development, being relatively mature in South Africa. I...

Kruss, G. (ed). (2006) Creating knowledge networks: working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

The new science and technology framework has challenged higher education institutions in South Africa to create research partnerships with industry, to contribute to growing a national system of innovation. Through detailed case studies, this monograph explores how one new organisational form typical of the knowledge society, the network, is currently being created in practice, in all its compl...

Kruss, G. (2006) Tensions in facilitating higher education-industry research partnerships in high technology fields in South Africa. Journal of higher education policy and management. 28(1):31-44.

Based on a study of research partnerships with industry across the higher education sector in three high technology fields in South Africa, the paper identifies five key tensions, the resolution of which shapes the way partnerships are facilitated and constrained in distinct institutional contexts. The paper highlights the significance of policy coherence between organizational levels within an...

Kruss, G. (2005) Distinct pathways: tracing the origins and history of private higher education in South Africa. Globalisation, societies and education. 3(3):261-279.

Kruss, G. (2005) Financial or intellectual imperatives. (Working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

In 2004,the HSRC's research programme on Human Resource Development launched the Working Partnerships Series to explore the extent to which the networked practices that are believed to characterise the knowledge economy have indeed begun to penetrate South African higher education and industry. One of four publications in the series, the focus of this study is to map the scale and form of r...

Kruss, G. (2005) Harnessing innovation potential?: institutional approaches to industry-higher education research partnerships in South Africa. Industry & higher education. 19(2):131-142.

Kruss, G. & Letseka, M. (2005) Special issue: Higher education-industry research partnerships and innovation in South Africa: introduction. Industry & higher education. 19(2):104-108.

Kruss, G., Paterson, A. & Cosser, M. (2004) Are partnerships between higher education and industry a vehicle for innovation in South Africa?. (Paper presented at the HSRC Conference, Birchwood, Benoni, 27-28 July).

Kruss, G. (2004) Breaking barriers to higher education - industry research partnerships. (Paper presented at the conference, Materials in Manufacturing - harnessing local expertise to improve global competitiveness, Cape Initiative in Materials and Manufacturing, University of Cape Town, 14-15 October 2004).

Kruss, G. (2004) Chasing credentials and mobility: private higher education in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

This book is an important and timely contribution to the highly polarised debate on public and private higher education in South Africa. Neither overtly for, nor against, the private provision of higher education, it begins from the assumption that private provision is a reality to be engaged with and that what is requires is policy and practice which ensures that private higher education inst...

Kruss, G. (2004) Employment and employability: expectations of higher education responsiveness in South Africa. Journal of education policy. 19(6):673-689.

This paper explores the expectations of higher education responsiveness of key employer, education, and training constituencies in South Africa. Empirical data was gathered through a series of focus group and individual interviews, and analysed in terms of distinctions in the ideal relationship between education and the workplace. The paper demonstrates that there are clear differences in the w...

Kruss, G. (2004) Employment and employability: expectations of higher education responsiveness.. (Paper presented at the UCT Environmental Scan Seminar, Glenara, 23 February 2004).

Kruss, G. (2004) Harnessing innovation potential or a necessary evil?: institutional approaches to industry-higher education partnerships. (Paper presented at the conference, Reinventing the University, Conference on Higher Education, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6-8 December).

Kruss, G. (2004) The importance of intermediate and high skills development in the western Cape: background paper 3: the contribution of higher education to a western Cape regional innovation system. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Micro Economic Strategy Project, October).

Kruss, G. Taking the gap. Mail & Guardian. (13 August 2004)

This article is about a large number of private institutions that are making significant contributions to developing skills at the intermediate level.

Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (2003) Editorial: a contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. In A contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (eds). Pretoria: Boston College and PROPHE Center for International Higher Education.

Kruss, G. (2003) More, better, different? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. In A contested good? Understanding private higher education in South Africa. Kruss, G. & Kraak, A. (eds). Pretoria: Boston College and PROPHE Center for International Higher Education. 19-32.

This paper draws on the concepts used to analyse the private sector in developing countries in the 1980s, to interrogate data from a qualitative study of 15 private higher education institutions in South Africa. It argues that the majority of private providers meet a demand for `different? education, which I the South African case takes the form of specialised provision of vocational higher tr...

Letseka, M., Breier, M. & Visser, M. (2010) Poverty, race and student achievement in seven higher education institutions. In: Letseka, M., Cosser, M., Breier, M. & Visser, M. Student retention & graduate destination: higher education & labour market access & success. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 25-40.

This chapter discusses the extent and effects of these legacies and their manifestations in the HSRC Student Retention and Graduate Destination Study.

Letseka, M., Cosser, M., Breier, M. & Visser, M. (2010) Student retention & graduate destination: higher education & labour market access & success. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Student attrition has been a perennial theme in South African higher education throughout the past decade. In its National Plan for Higher Education (2001), the Department of Education attributed high dropout rates primarily to financial and/or academic exclusions. Four years later, it reported that 30% of students dropped out in their first year of study and a further 20% during their second a...

Letseka, M. & Breier, M. (2008) Student poverty in higher education: the impact of higher education dropout on poverty. In: Maile, S. (ed). Education and poverty reduction strategies: issues of policy coherence: colloquium proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 83-101.

Data on higher education trends in South Africa indicate that 50% of students enrolled in higher education institutions drop out in their first three years with about 305 dropping out in their first year. This is despite the fact that some of these students will have passed their senior certificate with endorsement, merit or distinction. Many students also come from poverty-stricken families ...

Letseka, M. (2004) Higher education in South Africa ten years after democracy: some reflections. In The social sciences in South Africa since 1994. Hendricks, F. (ed). Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. 43-51.

Lorentzen, J. (2005) Local learning and international experiences in higher education-industry relationships: apples and oranges?. Industry & higher education. 19(2):109-120.

Mabizela, M. (2005) Book review: Mario, M., Fry, P., Levey, L. and Chilundo, A. 2003. Higher education in Mozambique. Oxford: James Currey Publsihers, p. 114. Journal of modern African studies. 43(3):504-505.

Mabizela, M. (2005) Book review: Mkude, D., Cooksey, B. and Levey, L. 2003. Higher education in Tanzania. Oxford: James Currey publishers, p. 114. Journal of modern African studies. 43(3):505-507.

Mabizela, M. (2005) Book review: Musisi, N.B. and Muwanga, N.K. 2003. Makerere University in transition 1993-2000. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, p. 103. Journal of modern African studies. 43(3):507-508.

Mabizela, M. (2005) The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

The phenomenon of partnerships between public higher education institutions and private providers of higher education in South Africa began in the early 1990s. While partnerships emerged in the distance education sub-sector, they soon became a feature of the broader higher education landscape as many residential institutions began to venture into distance education. Private Institutions, for th...

Mabizela, M. (2004) Whose higher educaton is it anyway? Analysis of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa. (Paper prepared for the CHER 17th annual conference, University of Twente, Enschede, 17-19 September).

Mafunisa, M.J. (2004) Key issues in the teaching of public administration ethics in higher education in South Africa. Politeia. 23(1):63-80.

McKinney, C.W. & van Pletzen, E. (2002) Challenges to critical pedagogy: student opposition and identity in a South African English studies course. Goldsmiths journal of education. 5(1):2-13.

Mitchell, C., Pithouse, K. & Moletsane, R. (2009) The social self in self-study: author conversations. In: Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the postmodern theory of education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang. 11-24.

Knowing more about ourselves as teachers and teacher educators change us, provokes growth, jolts us out of complacency -sometimes radically, in ways that can seem transformative. IN the course of examining one's practice systematically, a pivotal "aha' moment can occur, a jolting of the kaleidoscope that shifts our view when we reach one of those precise or fuzzy points at which we are irrevoc...

Moleke, P. (2005) Inequalities in higher education and the structure of the labour market. (Employment & Economic Policy Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 1). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Part of the ongoing research on the employment experiences of university graduates in South Africa and based upon the most comprehensive tracer study of university graduates yet conducted, this paper looks at the inequities in higher education and their consequences in the labour market for people with tertiary qualification. Two key phenomena in occupation segregation in the South African ...

Moleke, P. (2003) Employment experiences of graduates.

People with higher education experience a persistent advantage in the labour market. Their likelihood of being unemployed is low; and when this does occur, the period of unemployment is of relatively short duration. When they are employed it is often in relatively better paid jobs. Such employees also gain in terms of knowledge and experience which further benefit them in the job market. Howev...

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Moleke, P.M.S. (2001) First employment experiences of graduates. In Empowerment through economic transformation. Khosa, M.M. (ed). Durban: African millenium. 213-228.

Morrow, S. (2002) Book review: Lebau, Y. & Ogunsaya, M. (eds.) (2000) the dilemma of post-colonial universities: elite formation and the restructuring of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa. Ibadan: AFRA/African bookbuilders. ISBN 9782015709. African book publishing record (ABPR). xxviii (1):12.

Motaung, J. & Hongoro, C. (2010) I knew I could make it. HSRC Review. 8(1):24-25.

Access into higher-education learning for adults has always been difficult, as recognition of learning acquired formally and informally is not commonly practised in our country's higher-education institutions, as is the case in the USA, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. JULIA MOTAUNG and CHARLES HONGORO use a case study to demonstrate an acceptable way of assessing prior learning.

Motaung, J. (2009) The 'nuts and bolts' of prior learning assessment in the Faculty of Education of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Perspectives in Education. 27(1):78-84.

In South Africa the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) was conceptualised to address issues of social justice. The concept intended to increase the participation rate of historically disadvantaged groups in higher education and to improve the knowledge and skills base of the workforce in pursuit of global competitiveness. The conceptualisation, however, does not imply that such intentions are...

Motaung, M.J., Fraser, W.J. & Howie, S. (2009) Prior learning assessment and quality assurance practice: possibilities and challenges. South African Journal of Higher Education. 22(6):1249-1259.

The use of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) in higher education to assess RPL candidates for admission into programmes of study met with a lot of criticism from faculty academics. Lecturers viewed the possibility of admitting large numbers of under-qualified adult learners, as a threat to the institution's reputation, or an erosion of academic standards. Although RPL rests on the assumption ...

Muller, L. & Manamela, A. (2011) Impact of networks, globalisation and their interaction with EU strategies (INGENEUS project): synthesis paper on "HRD policies and MNC subsidiaries". (Commissioned by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme).

This paper examines and compares education indicators for 7 developed countries in Europe - Germany, Italy, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and United Kingdom, and four developing countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa. The selection of these countries is guided by the INGINEUS project. Tertiary education is the main focus of the report, although primary and secondary education syst...

Nkomo, M., Akoojee, S. & Motlhanke, S. (2007) Between a rock and a hard place: understanding the balance between access and efficiency in South African higher education. Journal of Asian and African studies. 42(5):399-413.

Nkomo, M.O. (2000) Educational research in the African development context. In African voices in education. Higgs, P., Vakalisa, N.C.G., Mda, T.V. & Assie-Lumumba, N.T. Cape Town: Juta. 47-62.

Ntshoe, I.M. (2002) Globalising and internationalising the higher education sector: challenges and contradictions in less industrialised countries. South African journal of higher education. 16(1):82-90.

The aim of this article is to explore ways in which higher learning institutions are affected by and are responding to globalisation, internalisation, managerialism and marketisation, both in the higher education in general and in particular in lesser developed countries, using South Africa as an example.

Ntshoe, I.M. (2002) Guest editorial: national plan for higher education in South Africa: a programme for equity and redress or globalised competition and managerialism?:. South African journal of higher education. 16(2):7-15.

Ntshoe, I.M. (2002) Higher education and training: privatisation and quasi-marketisation in higher education in South Africa. (Paper presented at understanding private higher education in South Africa: a colloquium, Kopanong Hotel, Benoni 9-10 April.).

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (2001) Indigenous knowledge systems and academic institutions in South Africa. Perspectives in education. 19(1):73-85.

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (2000) Issues and challenges for the FET sector: conference on community colleges in South Africa. (Eskom conference centre, Midrand 6 - 7 July 2000).

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (1999) Community colleges in South Africa: towards an inclusive and vibrant further education and training. (Research on FETpolicy implementation in collaboration with the National Department of Education).

Paterson, A. & Arends, F. (2009) Teacher graduate production in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

The quality of any national education system depends on its teachers. In recent years in South Africa, teacher supply has become a matter of national concern. This monograph examines changes in enrolment and graduation patterns of education students at higher education institutions which are pivotal suppliers of especially the initial professional education of teachers, but also the continu...

Paterson, A. (2005) Changing the 'landscape' of learning: the future of blended learning provision in newly merged South African higher education institutions. International journal of education and development using information and communication technology. 1(2):25-41.

Paterson, A. (2005) Information systems and institutional mergers in South African higher education. South African journal of higher education. 19(1):113-128.

Paterson, A., Arends, F., Earle, N., Visser, M. & Moila, B. (2005) A study on graduate outputs for agricultural qualifications in SAQA accredited higher education institutions over a ten year period. (Commissioned by the National Department of Agriculture, September).

Paterson, A. (2004) The impact of institutional mergers on information systems and blended learning provision in South African higher education. (Paper presented at the E/merge conference, 28 June to 10 July).

The period within which higher education mergers have taken place on a large scale internationally overlaps with a phase characterized by extremely rapid take-up of information technologies in higher education. This paper analyses the implications of institutional mergers for information systems development in the South African higher education system. The analyses is undertaken with particul...

Phaswana-Mafuya, M.N. & Peltzer, K. (2006) Perceived HIV/AIDS impact among higher education institutions in the Eastern Cape. South African journal of higher education. 20(1):147-160.

A descriptive questionnaire-based study was undertaken among higher education institutions in the Eastern Cape Province. The objectives of the study were to establish costs and trends in costs associated with HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality, and to assess perceived HIV/AIDS impact on job performance and coping with performance problems. To this end, a systematic random sample of 137 head of de...

Phaswana-Mafuya, M.N. (2005) HIV/AIDS situational analysis among tertiary institutions in the Eastern Cape. South African journal of higher education. 19(6):1141-1159.

An exploratory-descriptive study was conducted to assess the prevailing HIV/AIDS situation among 14 tertiary institutions in the Eastern Cape. The study involved a purposive sample of 182 institutional representatives with whom 14 group interviews were conducted. The situational analysis was organised into sections dealing with SWOT analysis, risk analysis, management strategies, prevention ac...

Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (2009) Introduction. In: Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang. 1-10.

Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). (2009) Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang.

How might study of the self illuminate and inspire social action? Making Connections: Self-Study & Social Action presents a trans-disciplinary, trans-cultural discussion of the dynamic interplay between self-study and our social world. Building on work done in the education field, the essays in the four themed sections of this edited volume provide diverse perspectives on the social relevance o...

Reddy, J. (2003) Regional incorporation, rationalisation of programmes and mergers in higher education: a case study of colleges of Education in KwaZulu-Natal. In Changing patterns of teacher education in South Africa: policy, practice and prospects. Lewin, K., Samuel, M. & Sayed, Y. (eds). London: Heinemann. 91-106.

Reddy, V. (2003) Face-to-face training in a conventional pre-service programme: a case study at Edgewood College of Education. In Changing patterns of teacher education in South Africa: policy, practice and prospects. Lewin, K., Samuel, M. & Sayed, Y. (eds). London: Heinemann. 176-193.

Roodt, J. (2001) The HSRC's graduate employment survey 2000: phase 7. (Report for the Professional Provident Society of SA).

Roodt, J. (2001) Remuneration of graduates: as on 1 October 2000. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has undertaken regular surveys since 1971 to monitor the income of graduates. This is the fourteenth survey in the series. About 200 000 questionnaires were mailed to graduates of which 12 902 were returned. This represents a response rate of 6.4%. This report reflects the income of 10 049 graduates in approximately 150 occupations as at 1 October ...

Sanger, N. (2008) 'Shutting up the crazies': reflections on feminists, whiteness, intellectuals and black aliens inside and outside the academy. (Paper presented for Colloquium in Honour of Professor Teresa Barnes: Transforming Higher Education and Knowledge Production since 1994: Perspectives in 2008, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 30-31 May).

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Sanger, N. (2006) Whose teaching whom?: interrogating subjectives in the teaching of literature in post-apartheid South Africa. (Paper presented at the Fullbright-Hayes Project Abroad, Program to SA Conference, University of the Western Cape, 29 July).

This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity in teaching South African literature, particularly at institutions of higher learning. In the context of deconstructing and producing literary texts within the current South African landscape, the aim was to highlight the critical role of academic `intellectuals? in the interrogation of their subjectivities when engaging with students from differe...

Scott, G. & Letseka, M. (2010) Student inclusion and exclusion at the University of the Witwatersrand. In: Letseka, M., Cosser, M., Breier, M. & Visser, M. Student retention & graduate destination: higher education & labour market access & success. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 41-52.

This chapter will consider information obtained from the WITS case study (Scott 2009) with respect to these four levels of integration. The focus is the extent to which WITS is dealing with the inclusion and exclusion of students from a cultural perspective from the dominant institutional one. An examination of questionnaire responses has been supplemented with information derived from intervi...

Skead, M. & Twalo, T. (2011) The Fort Hare writing centre: an integrated collaborative model for writing and language advancement. In: Archer, A. & Richards, R. (eds). Changing spaces: writing centres and access to higher education. Stellenbosch: Sun Press. 115-130.

This chapter explicates the approach adopted by the writing centre, in particular its theoretical orientation, model overview, challenges and benefits as well as recommendation for further research and development.

Southall, R.J. & Cobbing, J. (2001) From racial liberalism to corporate authoritarianism: the Shell affair and the assault on academic freedom in South Africa. Social dynamics. 27(2):1-42.

Steyn, C. (2005) The changing nature of research and development inputs in the South African higher education sector: findings from the national research and experimental development survey. (Paper presented at the Triple Helix Conference in Turin, Italy, May).

Policy imperatives in South Africa are clearly in favor of supporting an environment in which Mode 2 knowledge production will flourish. The National Council for Higher Education envisages a system that is increasingly responsive to national social and economic needs; actively seeks and is open to collaboration with other knowledge-producing partners and increasingly engages in applications-dri...

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Weir-Smith, G. (2002) Socio-economic profile of further education & training colleges. (Paper prepared for the Department of Education).

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Yu, K. & Pillay, V. (2011) Tracking enrolments and graduations in humanities education in South Africa: are we in crisis?. South African Journal of Higher Education. 25(6):1219-1232.

In this article we respond to the perceived crisis in humanities education in South Africa which posits firstly that large numbers of students are leaving this field and that secondly, the value of a humanities education has declined. To do this we track the enrolments and graduation rates in humanities at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels between 1999-2007. We disaggregate the data us...