Transformation tensions in higher education: equity, efficiency, and development.

From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Cloete, Nico; Moja, Teboho | Copyright information

HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE 1994 is braided into the bargain struck by President F. W. De Klerk and prisoner Nelson Mandela--both in terms of the baggage it carried and the promises it offered. When the new government came to power in 1994 on the basis of the "implicit bargain" (Gelb, 2001) reached between the National Party and the liberation movement led by the African National Congress (ANC), there was consensus in the government of national unity that higher educatio...

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