Summarizes issues and recommendations from eight recent studies of the mission of African higher education, including those concerning demand, access, equity, quality and relevance, science and technology, governance, links between universities and the broader society (including business and government), adequate and sustainable funding, and…

Examines the influence of a number of factors on quality assurance in the South African university system, including a new national system for standardizing training, national quality assurance initiatives, a new proposed role for universities, the shift from a monocultural to a multicultural educational environment, trend toward mass higher…