The Synergy between the SAAIR Conference Events and South African Higher Education Policy Initiatives during 1994-2015

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dc.contributor.authorBotha, Janen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-31T13:11:14Z
dc.date.available2017-05-31T13:11:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionCITATION: Botha, J. 2016. The Synergy between the SAAIR Conference Events and South African Higher Education Policy Initiatives during 1994-2015, in J. Botha & N.J. Muller (eds.). Institutional Research in South African Higher Education: Intersecting Contexts and Practices. Stellenboach: SUN PRESS. 43-56. doi:10.18820/9781928357186/03.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: The focus areas of Institutional Research (IR) practitioners in South Africa and an analysis of the synergy between these focus areas and the major higher education policy developments during the first two decades of the democratic dispensation in South Africa are the concerns of this chapter. To what extent did these policy developments determine the priorities of IR practitioners, or, to what extent did the results of the work of IR practitioners provide the evidence on which these policies were based? Or, is this a complex, dynamic relationship and that plays out in both directions at different times and in different contexts? Despite various voices arguing for multiple new roles for IR, for example, Swing (2009), and Calderon and Webber (2015), Saupe’s (1981) and Dressel’s (1981) classic definition that IR is conducted to support institutional management, and by implication, to provide evidence on which (policy) decisions can be based, remains a valid expression of what institutional leaders and policy makers expect from IR. On the other hand, the extent to which higher education policy makers actually base their decisions on the information provided by IR practitioners, is not easy to demonstrate definitively with empirical evidence. Therefore no assertions will be made in this chapter regarding any possible causal link between higher education policy developments and the work of IR practitioners, and consequently the softer term “synergy” was chosen to characterise the aim of the study.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent14 p.
dc.identifier.citationBotha, J. 2016. The Synergy between the SAAIR Conference Events and South African Higher Education Policy Initiatives during 1994-2015, in J. Botha & N.J. Muller (eds.). Institutional Research in South African Higher Education: Intersecting Contexts and Practices. Stellenboach: SUN PRESS. 43-56. doi:10.18820/9781928357186/03.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-928357-17-9en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn978-1-928357-18-6
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781928357186/03
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101650
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSUN PRESS
dc.relation.haspartResearch into Doctoral Education: A Survey of Institutional Research Projects in Southern Africaen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartInstitutional Research in Higher Education in South Africa: Looking Aheaden_ZA
dc.relation.haspartInstitutional Research in South African Higher Education: Framing the Contexts and Practicesen_ZA
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101624
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101651
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101649
dc.rights.holderSUN PRESSen_ZA
dc.subjectInstitutional Research (IR)en_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- Research -- South Africa -- Case studiesen_ZA
dc.subjectEducation, Higher -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectEducational planning -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- South Africa -- Planningen_ZA
dc.titleThe Synergy between the SAAIR Conference Events and South African Higher Education Policy Initiatives during 1994-2015en_ZA
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