The Need for Change
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چکیده
On 9 December 2002, the then minister of education, Professor Kader Asmal, announced that the cabinet had approved the final proposals for the restructuring of the institutional landscape of higher education in South Africa. These proposals were the culmination of a wide-ranging consultative process on the restructuring of the HE system that had begun in the early 1990s, and which had produced a rich variety of policy documents and frameworks based on the collective wisdom of HE constituencies and stakeholders. In his announcement, the minister hailed the cabinet decision as “the beginning of a new era for higher education in South Africa”.
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