Quality Assurance in Higher Education and the Management of South Africa's Past: Some Paradoxes

Autor/in	Soudien, Crain
Titel	Quality Assurance in Higher Education and the Management of South Africa's Past: Some Paradoxes
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 25 (2007) 3, S.39-50 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Quality Control; Foreign Countries; Social Justice; Educational Principles; Educational Administration; Educational Change; Change Strategies; National Programs; Developing Nations; Politics of Education; Efficiency; Educational Quality; Administrative Principles; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitätskontrolle; Ausland; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsprinzip; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Bildungsreform; Lösungsstrategie; nicht übertragen; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The direction quality assurance and its ancillary practices is taking in the transformation process in South Africa is discussed in this article. The article argues that it is incorrect to suggest that the higher education system has been captured by managerialism. While efficiency is an important driver of the system, the imperatives of redress and equality, on the one hand, and quality, on the other, are not insignificant. However, these discourses are substantially asymmetrical. The purpose of this article is two-fold: in the first instance it seeks to describe the range of state-mandated initiatives that have been instituted to give substance to the transformation process in higher education and particularly those that have a bearing on the production and promotion of quality. In the second instance, it attempts to highlight and analyse the implications of these mandates for the impact and significance they have for the character of South African higher education. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10