For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured
Date
2016
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Academy of Science of South Africa
Abstract
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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CITATION: Cloete, N. 2016. For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured. South African Journal of Science, 112(3/4), Art. #a0146, doi:10.17159/sajs.2016/a0146.
The original publication is available at http://sajs.co.za
The original publication is available at http://sajs.co.za
Keywords
Universities and colleges -- Ratings and rankings -- South Africa, Education -- Higher -- South Africa, Sustainable development -- Undergraduates -- South Africa, Educational evaluation -- South Africa
Citation
Cloete, N. 2016. For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured. South African Journal of Science, 112(3/4), Art. #a0146, doi:10.17159/sajs.2016/a0146