Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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