PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS公立与私立大专院校.pptVIP

PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS: A small scale investigation of scholar’s perceptions in the Nelson Mandela Metropole By Joleen Steyn Kotze Chantel Harris INTRODUCTION A university, as defined by the New Collins Concise English Dictionary, can be defined as an institution of higher education having the authority to award bachelors’ and higher degrees, usually having research facilities. A private tertiary institution would be one that is under the financial and managerial control of a private body, accepting mostly fee-paying learners (Adapted from private school in the New Collins Concise English Dictionary). An example of a private tertiary institution is Damelin or Varsity College. A public tertiary institution can be described as an institution of higher education maintained at the expense of, serving for or for the use of a community (Adapted from the New Collins Concise English Dictionary). Furthermore, public universities are subsidised by the government and are therefore under the scrutiny of the Department of Education. An example of a public university is the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University or the University of Cape Town. TERTIARY EDUCATION IN SA Plagued by many challenges 40 years worth of segregated education needs to be amended in a short space of time At the same time competing on a global level, including technological advancement, etc. Tertiary education was dominated by racial segregation Up to the current government to attempt massification of education by opening doors to all TERTIARY EDUCATION IN SA Lodge (2002:69) Better-educated, more productive workers seem a remote prospect given the recent trend of deteriorating matriculation results, along with the government’s failure to improve the quality of public education Corruption This can only harm the labour market TERTIARY EDUCATION IN SA National Plan for Higher Education Satisfy national growth and development goals While achieving equity with respect to both learne