Universities to get equity index

An equity index has been devised to measure transformation at universities in South Africa, researchers said on Wednesday.  “For the first time, a new and innovative quantitative measure of transformation has been devised to complement the many qualitative, descriptive measures,” the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and the public universities transformation oversight committee (Putoc) said in a statement.  The results of a study on transformation at the country's universities would be presented to Parliament's university oversight committee on Wednesday. Research showed the pace of transformation in universities was “far from ideal”. More...