Browsing Research Articles (Education Management and Policy Studies) by Title

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  • Higher education and the challenges of skills production in the Philippines 
    Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel; Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika (Unisa Press, 2015)
    There has been a speedy increase in the number of higher education providers, including private higher education institutions in the Philippines. This proliferation of providers and institutional types has given rise to ...
  • Higher education funding, justice and equity - critical perspectives 
    Motala, S.; Oketch, M.; Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald; Nasutha, M. (Stellenbosch University, 2023-11)
    How governments choose to fund students in higher education (HE) is inextricably linked to the sector’s sustainability and efforts to achieve a just and equitable HE experience and outcomes for all students. The way funding ...
  • How inclusive education is understood by principals of independent schools 
    Gous, Jennifer Glenda; Eloff, Irma; Moen, Melanie Carmen (Routledge, 2014)
    Inclusive education has become a practice that has been adopted by many schools across the globe and most usually in first-world countries. As a whole-school system, it occurs less frequently in developing countries ...
  • How mergers shape the institutional curriculum : guest editorial 
    Jansen, Jonathan D. (South African Association of Research and Development in Higher Education, 2004)
    Reports on the curriculum effects of mergers in five case studies of higher education mergers that have recently unfolded in South Africa.
  • How primary school teachers experience education policy change in South Africa 
    Smit, Brigitte (Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2001-10)
    South Africa has been in a process of far-reaching restructuring and is still witnessing a plethora of many policies initiating and seeking educational change. Education policy for educational change only becomes reality ...
  • How safe are South African schools? 
    Prinsloo, Izak J. (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2005)
    After 1994, South Africa passed several pieces of legislation protecting the rights and safety of learners in South African schools. These Acts are all (to a larger or smaller extent) concerned with protecting the physical ...
  • How school governing bodies in South Africa understand and respond to HIV / AIDS 
    Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2003)
    As the pandemic of HIV/AIDS increases daily and the epidemic in the Republic of South Africa is one of the worst in the world, causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS remain contested among political and medical elites in this ...
  • How school management committees monitor the implementation of universal primary education in Uganda 
    Mugabe, Robert (Scholarlink Research Institute, 2018)
    Involvement of the community in school management may not necessarily improve education service delivery in schools. The purpose of this study was to conduct an empirical study on the ascribed roles of SMCs in monitoring ...
  • How women in higher education negotiate work and home : a study of selected women at a university in South Africa 
    Bhana, Deevia; Pillay, Venitha (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2012)
    The Council for Higher Education notes the lack of women doing research in South African universities. Focusing on the experiences of South African women academics, this article highlights the ways in which inequitable ...
  • Human rights, juridical forms and the crisis of values in education 
    Keet, Andre (Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2010)
    Though critical of, but nonetheless employing Habermas' notion of systems and lifeworld (which forms part of his reconstructive theory of law), I argue that rights-related values in South Africa have taken on a juridical ...
  • Imagined power and abuse of administrative power in education in South Africa 
    Beckmann, Johan L.; Prinsloo, Justus G. (Juta Law, 2006)
    In this article we use the concept ‘‘imagined power’’, first used in the field of education law in South Africa by Hattingh J in the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie case,to facilitate a discussion of the abuse of administrative ...
  • The impact of university incorporation on college lecturers 
    Becker, L.R.; Beukes, Lukas D.; Botha, Antoinette; Botha, A.C.; Botha, Jan Jakobus; Botha, M.; Cloete, Dina J.; Cloete, Johann L.; Coetzee, Corene; De Beer, L.J.; De Bruin, D.J.; De Jager, Lizette J.; De Villiers, Johannes Jozua Rian; Du Toit, Cecilia Magdalena; Engelbrecht, Alta; Evans, Rinelle; Haupt, Maria Margaretha Catharina (Grietjie); Heyns, Danielle; Howatt, L.M.; Joubert, A.P.; Joubert, Ina; Niemann, A.C.; Phatudi, Nkidi Caroline; Randall, Elize; Rauscher, Willem Johannes; Rautenbach, W.C.; Scholtz, S.; Schultz, J.C.; Swart, Ronel; Van Aswegen, Hendrika Johanna; Van Heerden, Judith Cornelia (Judy); Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes; Van Wyk, Elmarie M.; Van Wyk, Johannes G.U.; Van der Walt, C.A.; Van der Westhuizen, Carol N.; Vermeulen, Dorette; Vorster, A. (Springer Verlag (Germany), 2004-09)
    In South Africa, recent government plans to change the institutional landscape of higher education have resulted in mergers of colleges into universities or technikons. The research reported in this article focuses solely ...
  • Improvement from within : the asset-based approach and rural school improvement 
    Myende, Phumlani Erasmus (University of Venda, 2018)
    Rural school reform in South Africa is largely driven by frameworks that are insufficiently sensitive to the realities of rurality. Twenty-three years into democracy, the government’s approach to the challenges of rural ...
  • "Incidents and accidents : how are schools implementing the safety regulations prescribed by the South African schools act”? 
    Eberlein, Eric; Moen, Melanie Carmen (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2016)
    Children are placed in the care of educators on a daily basis. Accidents and incidents occur despite the best efforts of schools to ensure the safety of children and educators. This study investigated how prepared ...
  • Inclusive education : a case of beliefs competing for implementation 
    Meltz, Adrienne; Herman, Chaya; Pillay, Venitha (Entomological Society of America, 2014-08)
    The study explored the understanding and implementation of inclusive education in an independent Jewish community school; a school with a community ethos of care and belonging, whose context is, by definition, exclusionary ...
  • Incorporating international standards into national education law in South Africa : the accountability of the state 
    Joubert, Hendrika J. (Rika) (UNISA Press, 2014)
    The aim of this article is to assess the extent to which the international norms and standards related to the right to education are incorporated into the national education laws in South Africa.
  • An indigenous psychology perspective on psychosocial support in Southern Africa as collective, networking, and pragmatic support 
    Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Loots, Tilda; Mampane, Motlalepule Ruth; Omidire, Margaret Funke; Malan-van Rooyen, Marlize; Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng; Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina (Wiley, 2018-09)
    This comparative case study seeks to describe the traditional African psychosocial support practices used in postcolonial Southern Africa. We use an indigenous psychology theory (relationship‐resourced resilience) as a ...
  • Inquiry-based approach : reconstructing the undergraduate teaching and learning space 
    Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina (Independent Institute of Education, 2018)
    Student completion is a concern in public universities in South Africa and elsewhere. Poor approach to teaching and learning is one of the known causes of the foregoing challenge, yet, it has hardly received attention. ...
  • Intellectuals under fire 
    Jansen, Jonathan D. (Centre for Cultural & Media Studies, 2004)
    Looks at the status of intellectuals in South Africa ten years after democracy was established in the country. Direction of democracy in the country; Concerns about the policies of the government and its response to criticism ...
  • International students seeking political stability and safety in South Africa 
    Lee, Jenny J.; Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020-06)
    Given the increasing rate of South to South migration and South Africa’s leading role as a host for internally displaced migrants as well as Africa’s international students, this study examined this intersection of ...