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Chasing credentials and mobility: Private higher education in South Africa

Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2004

Corporate author/s:

Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), HSRC Press

Person/s author/s:

Kruss, Glenda

Output-type:

book

Format:

pdf

This books brings a different set of lenses to bear on what has become the subject of intense contestation, of 'media hype', in South Africa: the private provision of higher education. This books seeks to provide a way to move beyond any polarisation towards a means of engagement, by offering a more nuanced understanding of the private sector in South Africa. Based on an empirical investigation, it explores the contours and forms of the private higher education sector. Understanding what private providers are doing, their function and the demand they respond to aim and meet, can provide a basis for understanding their potential complementary or competitive role. This book does so conceptually by drawing on the international literature on private higher education, to develop a set of dimensions along which private sub-sectors may be systematically distinguished, and it does so empirically by means of a detailed case-study investigation of staff, students, management and facilities at 15 private providers.

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