More, better, different?: understanding private higher education in South Africa
SOURCE: Child Development
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Kruss
SOURCE EDITOR(S): G.Kruss, A.Kraak
KEYWORDS: HIGHER EDUCATION, PRIVATISATION
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2384
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/8225
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8225
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Kruss
SOURCE EDITOR(S): G.Kruss, A.Kraak
KEYWORDS: HIGHER EDUCATION, PRIVATISATION
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2384
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/8225
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8225
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Abstract
This paper draws on the concepts used to analyse the private sector in developing countries in the 1980s, to interrogate data from a qualitative study of 15 private higher education institutions in South Africa. It argues that the majority of private providers meet a demand for 'different' education, which I the South African case takes the form of specialised provision of vocational higher training in niche areas at the intermediate level, aiming to extend access to job opportunities. A small but influential sub-sector meets a demand for 'better' education, which takes the form of exclusive, high-status, university-like provision oriented to global mobility. A minority of providers display elements of responding to a demand for 'more' education, extending access to those excluded from public provision by lack of educational qualifications or finances. This lays the basis for a more nuanced engagement with the private sector.-
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