Publisher's Synopsis
After South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, higher education was confronted with social, political and economic demands, arising from both the local and global environments of a kind not encountered during the apartheid era.;It was initially assumed that the main driver of change would be government policy, inforrned by a participatory policy formulation process and implemented by a new, progressive bureacracy. But change in higher education institutions followed a variety of routes that resulted in certain apartheid differences being accentuated and new differences emerging in the institutional landscape.;This book examines the extent to which the changes were in line with policy intentions, particularly with regard to equity, democratization, responsivity and efficiency and how a new institutional landscape started emerging. Central to the new landscape were the different ways in which institutions responded or adapted to the new environment. An argument is also presented for rethinking the centralized, government-driven policy implementation-change paradigm.
