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Book SynopsisTransforming 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
