Transforming Universities in South Africa: Pathways to Higher Education Reform(6 African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives)

The idea of transformation in higher education underpins all policy documents, academic literature and on-going debates in South Africa. Transforming Universities in South Africa: Pathways to Higher Education Reform responds to the pressing need to comprehensively review the post-apartheid experience and assess where South Africa’s higher education stands across the continent and globally, particularly within the country’s efforts to overcome decades of socio-economic imbalances. It addresses the question of whether South Africa’s transformation strategy from apartheid to democracy was simply a symbolic new flag-raising and new anthem singing exercise reflecting a transition akin to those limited decolonization projects elsewhere in the world, or whether something more fundamental was possible and was achieved with political and policy implications for other countries in Africa and globally. This volume's ultimate purpose is to provide a basis for imagining new futures in which South Africa higher education in the context of Africa and the global world takes centre stage.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Michael Cross and Shireen Motala 2 Transformation of Higher Education in South Africa, 1995–2016: Current Limitations and Future Possibilities  Ihron Rensburg 3 Transformation Revisited: Twenty Years of Higher Education Policy in South Africa  Lis Lange 4 Higher Education Transformation, Inequality and Educational Leadership-In-Becoming  Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid 5 Global Africa: Nelson Mandela and the Meaning of Decolonising Knowledge and Universities – Problems and Opportunities  Ihron Rensburg 6 Decolonising Universities in South Africa: Backtracking and Revisiting the Debate  Michael Cross 7 The Learning Challenge in South African Higher Education  Crain Soudien 8 Changing the Doctoral Education Curriculum: A Comparative Study of Drama and Performance Studies and Chemical Engineering  Thiruveni Moodley and Michael Anthony Samuel 9 South Africa’s Opportunity: Crafting a Differentiated Higher Education System  Ihron Rensburg 10 General Trends and Impact of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa  Shireen Motala and Solomon Arulraj David 11 Measuring Equity of Access to Higher Education in South Africa: Considerations and Possibilities  Kirti Menon 12 Conclusion  Ihron Rensburg and Shireen Motala Index

About the Author :
Ihron Rensburg, Ph.D. (1996), Stanford University (USA), is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg (2006–2017). He is senior advisor to the principal, visiting professor at Kings College London, and honorary professor at Nelson Mandela University. He has published in books and scholarly journals.
Shireen Motala is Senior Director of the Postgraduate School, Professor in the Faculty of Education, at the University of Johannesburg, and has recently been appointed as the SARCHI Chair: Teaching and Learning by the National Research Foundation. She has published in books and scholarly journals.
Michael Cross is founder and Director of the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He is also a co-founder and co-editor of the book series on Higher Education. He has published books and scholarly journals.