Widening Equity and Retaining Efficiency: Considerations from the IBSA Southern Coalface

Autor/inn/en	Akoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung
Titel	Widening Equity and Retaining Efficiency: Considerations from the IBSA Southern Coalface
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Development, 31 (2011) 2, S.118-125 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0738-0593
DOI	10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.07.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Economic Development; Higher Education; Sustainable Development; Equal Education; Program Implementation; Program Effectiveness; Efficiency; Free Enterprise System; Educational Principles; Inclusion; Educational Development; Developing Nations; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; Foreign Policy; Policy Analysis; Educational Needs; Educational Supply; Access to Education; Educational Demand; Educational Finance; Economics; Financial Support; Donors; Case Studies; Discourse Analysis; Comparative Education; International Cooperation; Brazil; India; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Freie Wirtschaft; Bildungsprinzip; Inklusion; Bildungsentwicklung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politics of education; Außenpolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungsangebot; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Bildungsfonds; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Finanzielle Förderung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Diskursanalyse; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Brasilien; Indien; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for increased access to higher education are experienced in India, Brazil and South Africa. As signatories to the IBSA declaration in the spirit of South-South cooperation, the three countries have publicly declared their commitment to enhance equity by, for example, widening access to higher education. We review the way in which the three countries have implemented key equity initiatives and draw lessons from their practice. Notions of "effectiveness" and "efficiency" are used to understand the extent to which each of the individual systems is responsive to the equity agenda. We find that while there have been notable attempts to implement the equity agenda in the quest for making their systems more "socially effective". This is countervailed by a more pervasive "efficiency" doctrine, underpinned by a market-driven economic paradigm. It is concluded that the innovative practices in each of the countries suggest important strides in the equity agenda but also that much still remains to be done. While the article represents a starting point for the much-vaunted South-South collaboration, tentative findings suggest that a more deliberately articulated policy framework characterized by greater inclusion of those previously excluded is necessary in each of the countries if significant and sustainable development is to be achieved. (As Provided).
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