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Page Background

International context: Global higher education

Global

World

HE Mass

Education

National context

Globalisation

SA political transformation

Socio-economical and political reality of unemployment, poverty, violence and crime

Increase in boycotts and strikes (labour issues and service delivery)

Radical transformation of HE

Characteristics of the contemporary SAHE landscape

Setting: Changed and

changing HEI

FYE

Orientation programme

Dynamic characteristics and

processes inherent to the

setting

Free education for the poor

Mass education

▪ Policy changes

▪ Curriculum changes

▪ Corporatisation of HEIs

▪ Managerialism

▪ Stress factories

▪ Political hothouses

▪ Elitist nature of HE remains

▪ #FeesMustFall campaign

(high institutional fees, structural inequalities,

symbols of colonialism and language policies)