![]() Increased cooperation and partnerships The new system will emphasise cooperation and partnerships in governance structures and operations of higher education. Greater responsiveness …In essence, heightened responsiveness and accountability express the greater impact of the market and civil society on higher education and the consequent need for appropriate forms of regulation. In a situation of financial constraints, planning and negotiations will have to ensure that wider participation is affordable and sustainable. Such ‘massification’ of South African higher education will necessarily involve different patterns of teaching and learning, new curriculums and more varied modes of delivery. Increased participation … Greater numbers of students will have to be accommodated, and these students will be recruited from a broader distribution of social groups and classes. ![]() The transformation of higher education intended by the Ministry is a far-reaching process. These challenges effectively define the need to transform higher education in South Africa …. Successful policy must restructure the higher education system and its institutions to meet the needs of an increasingly technologically oriented economy and it must deliver the requisite research, the highly trained people and the useful knowledge to equip a developing society with the capacity to participate competitively in a rapidly changing global context. higher education policy in South Africa confronts two sets of challenges simultaneously… Successful policy will have to overcome an historically determined pattern of fragmentation, inequality and inefficiency it will have to increase access for black students and for women and it will have to generate new models of learning and teaching to accommodate a larger student population…. ![]() As the Green Paper on Higher Education Transformation (Department of Education,1996, section 4) proposed: In the South African context, transformation relates to societal change., not just overcoming apartheid but addressing technological change. While this notion is popular, it may be difficult to measure quality as transformation in terms of intellectual capital (Lomas, 2002).
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