Browsing by Author "Cloete, Nico"

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    For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured
    (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2016) Cloete, Nico
    South Africa has the most diverse and differentiated higher education system in Africa – despite some persistent attempts at academic drift and mimetic normative isomorphism. Globally, in the 2008 country system ranking by the Shanghai JiaoTong Academic Ranking of World Universities, the South African higher education system was placed in the range between 27 and 33 along with the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Ireland. It is well known that South Africa consistently has four of the five African universities that appear in the Shanghai top 500.
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    Nurturing doctoral growth : towards the NDP’s 5000?
    (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2015-12) Cloete, Nico
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    Rolf Stumpf (1945–2020) : tough, decisive and compassionate technocratic-intellectual
    (ASSAf, 2021-05-28) Cloete, Nico
    Reflecting on the career of Rolf Stumpf, who passed during late October 2020 from cancer, reminded me of a meeting I had around 1992 with the famous Hungarian sociologist Ivan Szelenyi, who had started working on his very interesting book Making Capitalism without Capitalists (Verso, 1998). With the South African transition looming, he was interested, from a Hungarian perspective, in what made certain communists successful in the new capitalist Hungary and he wanted to know if I was interested in doing a similar study in South Africa. The transition became far too busy for me to consider another study, but the central theme of Szelenyi’s work was that one of the characteristics of a successful transition was their distinctive technocratic-intellectual elites who were both successful communists and successful capitalists.