The massification of higher education in South Africa

By Karen MacGregor. Two decades into democracy, South Africa has done well in nearly doubling higher education enrolments. But racial inequities remain, growth has been stifled by government reluctance to open up to the private sector and open learning, and its “flirting with a welfarist neo-socialist model” of free university for the poor has spawned student demands and protests, says Thandwa Mthembu, vice-chancellor of Central University of Technology, Free State. Read more...