Challenges Facing South Africa's Educational Advancement

Abstract

In recent years, South African higher education institutions (HEIs) have experienced unprecedented change. Radical restructuring has taken place across the country with almost all HEIs affected. This paper argues that while such radical reform initiatives were in fact necessary for the advancement of higher education in South Africa, it also had several unintended outcomes that need to be addressed. The state-driven project of merging institutions has presented dynamic challenges that threaten progress and desired advancement.

A survey of trainee specialists experiences at the University of Cape Town (UCT): Impacts of race and gender

“…Institutions of Higher Education in the health sector in South Africa face a significant challenge in ensuring that graduates reflect the full racial [see Additional file 1 ] and gender diversity of the population [ 1 - 3 ]. In the health setting, apartheid policies, through the systematic exclusion of black students from both undergraduate and postgraduate training in health professions [ 4 - 6 ], left a deep shadow on human resource capacity for the country.…”