Funding Sources for Public Higher Education in South Africa: Institutional Responses

Autor/inn/en	Ntshoe, Isaac; de Villiers, Pierre
Titel	Funding Sources for Public Higher Education in South Africa: Institutional Responses
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 31 (2013) 4, S.71-84 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Finance; Public Colleges; Higher Education; Tuition; Fees; Student Loan Programs; Student Financial Aid; Philanthropic Foundations; Entrepreneurship; Access to Education; Equal Education; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Public Policy; Documentation; Federal Aid; Income; Institutional Characteristics; Socioeconomic Status; Social Capital; Cultural Capital; Rural Areas; At Risk Persons; State Aid; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Philanthropismus; Unternehmungsgeist; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Qualitative Forschung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Dokumentation; Einkommen; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozialkapital; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Risikogruppe; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Tuition fees and the use of student loans to complement government's allocations have become unavoidable because of increasing competing new priorities for funding. This article addresses the funding sources of public higher education through tuition and loans. We explore the effects of shifts from first-stream income (government appropriations) towards second- (tuition fees) and third-stream (philanthropic funding and academic entrepreneurialism), and how tuition fees and student loans might impact on access, equity and throughput rates in South Africa. The qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was adopted to obtain data with expert information selected by purposeful sampling from four types of higher education institutions in South Africa. The data were also obtained from national policy and institutional documents. We make a case for the indivisibility between first-, second- and third-stream money incomes and between public-private benefits of tuition fees and student loans. We argue that the ability of institutions to raise third-stream income depends on their history, geopolitical location, programmes offered and their proximity to industry, so as to engage research activities that promote third-stream income. We further argue that institutions in mainly rural provinces, and students from poor family backgrounds, most of whom are Black, generally lack the necessary cultural and social capital to make use of opportunities in the form of bursaries and student loans. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Perspectives in Education. Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa. Fax: +27-51-401-7044; e-mail: pie@ufs.ac.za; Web site: http://search.sabinet.co.za/pie
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Update	2017/4/10