Nico Cloete
Biographic Data
| ID | 244610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nico Cloete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nico |
| FAMILY NAME | Cloete |
| SIGNATURE | CLOETE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transformation impossible
The South African higher education system
Transformation in higher education in South Africa over the last 20 years has been strongly shaped by post-apartheid pressures. Recent research shows that South Africa's current higher education system can be described as medium knowledge-producing and differentiated, with low participation and high attrition. In the decade following 1994, both policy frameworks and capacity building of the sector received considerable attention. Massification an…
Transformation Tensions in Higher Education
Nico Cloete and Teboho Moja Transformation Tensions in Higher Education: Equity, Efficiency, and Development H IG H ER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SIN CE 1994 IS braided into the bargain struck by President F. W. De Klerk and prisoner Nelson Mandela—both in terms of the baggage it carried and the promises it offered. When the new government came to power in 1994 on the basis of the "implicit bargain" (Gelb, 2001) reached between the National Party …
A tale of three countries
South African higher education reform
Since the fall of the apartheid regime South African higher education has begun to undergo a process of fundamental transformation. First-world universities, which were beneficiaries (however unwilling) of past racial inequalities, have had to adapt to the urgent needs of what is a post-colonial and, for the majority of its citizens, a third-world society. South Africa, therefore, provides a particularly sharp example of the encounter between a h…
Out of Eden
The White Hands
The Russian-Polish radical Jan Makhaisky was exiled to Siberia in the 1890s. Reading Capital, he concluded that the greatest future threat to the proletariat would come from the new class of educated, unpropertied intellectuals. He called them the class of “White Hands”. (Quoted by Adam Westoby in ‘Conceptions of Communist States’ ed D Held et al States and Societies, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1983, p234) “Study is the patrimony of no one and the…
Out of Eden
The South African higher education system
Transformation in higher education in South Africa over the last 20 years has been strongly shaped by post-apartheid pressures. Recent research shows that South Africa's current higher education system can be described as medium knowledge-producing and differentiated, with low participation and high attrition. In the decade following 1994, both policy frameworks and capacity building of the sector received considerable attention. Massification an…
The White Hands
The Russian-Polish radical Jan Makhaisky was exiled to Siberia in the 1890s. Reading Capital, he concluded that the greatest future threat to the proletariat would come from the new class of educated, unpropertied intellectuals. He called them the class of “White Hands”. (Quoted by Adam Westoby in ‘Conceptions of Communist States’ ed D Held et al States and Societies, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1983, p234) “Study is the patrimony of no one and the…
Transformation Tensions in Higher Education
Nico Cloete and Teboho Moja Transformation Tensions in Higher Education: Equity, Efficiency, and Development H IG H ER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SIN CE 1994 IS braided into the bargain struck by President F. W. De Klerk and prisoner Nelson Mandela—both in terms of the baggage it carried and the promises it offered. When the new government came to power in 1994 on the basis of the "implicit bargain" (Gelb, 2001) reached between the National Party …
South African higher education reform
Since the fall of the apartheid regime South African higher education has begun to undergo a process of fundamental transformation. First-world universities, which were beneficiaries (however unwilling) of past racial inequalities, have had to adapt to the urgent needs of what is a post-colonial and, for the majority of its citizens, a third-world society. South Africa, therefore, provides a particularly sharp example of the encounter between a h…
The White Hands
The Russian-Polish radical Jan Makhaisky was exiled to Siberia in the 1890s. Reading Capital, he concluded that the greatest future threat to the proletariat would come from the new class of educated, unpropertied intellectuals. He called them the class of “White Hands”. (Quoted by Adam Westoby in ‘Conceptions of Communist States’ ed D Held et al States and Societies, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1983, p234) “Study is the patrimony of no one and the…
Out of Eden
South African higher education reform
Since the fall of the apartheid regime South African higher education has begun to undergo a process of fundamental transformation. First-world universities, which were beneficiaries (however unwilling) of past racial inequalities, have had to adapt to the urgent needs of what is a post-colonial and, for the majority of its citizens, a third-world society. South Africa, therefore, provides a particularly sharp example of the encounter between a h…
A tale of three countries
Transformation Tensions in Higher Education
Nico Cloete and Teboho Moja Transformation Tensions in Higher Education: Equity, Efficiency, and Development H IG H ER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SIN CE 1994 IS braided into the bargain struck by President F. W. De Klerk and prisoner Nelson Mandela—both in terms of the baggage it carried and the promises it offered. When the new government came to power in 1994 on the basis of the "implicit bargain" (Gelb, 2001) reached between the National Party …
The South African higher education system
Transformation in higher education in South Africa over the last 20 years has been strongly shaped by post-apartheid pressures. Recent research shows that South Africa's current higher education system can be described as medium knowledge-producing and differentiated, with low participation and high attrition. In the decade following 1994, both policy frameworks and capacity building of the sector received considerable attention. Massification an…
Transformation impossible
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Higher Education Learning Practices (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)