For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured

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dc.contributor.authorCloete, Nico
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T10:50:45Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T10:50:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractSouth 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.Even more impressive is that The Times Higher Education 2016 ranking of BRICS and emerging economies1 places three South African universities in the top 12: the University of Cape Town (UCT) 4th, the University of the Witwatersrand 6th and Stellenbosch University 11th. Brazil and Russia each have only one university in the top 12, and India, with a billion people, has none. China, with their differentiation policy aimed at producing 30 world-class universities, has six in the top 12.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCloete, N. (2016). For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured. South African Journal of Science, 112(3–4), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/a0146en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-7489
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/a0146
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6695
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademy of Science of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectAcademic rankingen_US
dc.subjectPrivate returnsen_US
dc.subjectCompletion ratesen_US
dc.subjectHigher education systemen_US
dc.subjectUndergraduateen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleFor sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructureden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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