A proposal for undergraduate curriculum reform in South Africa: the case for a flexible curriculum structure

A proposal for undergraduate curriculum reform in South Africa: the case for a flexible curriculum structure

This study confirms through multiyear undergraduate cohort tracking, that although South Africa has since 1994 witnessed a significant growth in enrolment in both the schooling and higher education sectors, graduate output has not kept pace with the country’s needs. High attrition and low graduation rates have largely neutralised important gains in access. It also highlights the resilience of both historical and systemic factors that have combined to put a brake on the momentum of the desire to craft an undergraduate system that delivers on a demanding constitutional mandate to achieve a succe ... Show more