Alert:

Limited Availability of Full-Text Documents. Click here for more information, or here to request the return of a PDF online.

EJ905762 - Widening Equity and Retaining Efficiency: Considerations from the IBSA Southern Coalface

Help

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help With This Page

Back to Search Results Help Permalink Share this record

More Info:
Help 0 items in My Clipboard | Add record to My Clipboard

Record Details

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text | More Info:
Help Find in a Library | Publisher's website

Related Items: Show Related Items

Click on any of the links below to perform a new search
ERIC #:	EJ905762
Title:	Widening Equity and Retaining Efficiency: Considerations from the IBSA Southern Coalface
Authors:	Akoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung
Descriptors:	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
Source:	International Journal of Educational Development, v31 n2 p118-125 Mar 2011
More Info: Help Peer Reviewed:	Yes
Publisher:	Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com
Publication Date:	2011-03-00
Pages:	8
Pub Types:	Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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.
Abstractor:	As Provided
Reference Count:	0

Note:	N/A
Identifiers:	India; Brazil; South Africa
Record Type:	Journal
Level:	N/A
Institutions:	N/A
Sponsors:	N/A
ISBN:	N/A
ISSN:	ISSN-0738-0593
Audiences:	N/A
Languages:	English
Education Level:	Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Direct Link:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.07.003

Back to Search Results