Higher Education in Regional and City Development: The Free State, South Africa 2012
The third largest of South Africa’s nine provinces, the Free State suffers from unemployment, poverty and low skills. Only one-third of its working age adults are employed. 150 000 unemployed youth are outside of training and education. Centrally located and landlocked, the Free State lacks obvious...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Higher Education in Regional and City Development,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704964406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Assessment and recommendations
- Chapter 1. The Free State in context
- Introduction: origins of spatial, social and economic inequalities
- 1.1 Geography and sub-regional features
- 1.2 Governance
- 1.3 Demography and urbanisation
- 1.4 Health, poverty and welfare
- 1.5 The regional economy
- 1.6 Higher education in South Africa
- 1.7 Higher education and training in the Free State
- References
- Chapter 2. Human capital and skills development in the Free State
- Introduction
- 2.1 Higher education and training providers in the Free State
- 2.2 Regional demographics and human capital development
- 2.3 Ensuring access and success in higher education and training
- 2.4 Increasing participation of adults: Lifelong learning
- 2.5 The governance of the higher education and training system in the Free State
- Conclusions and recommendations
- References
- Annex 2.A1. Widening access to and improving success in higher education: the Victoria University case
- Chapter 3. Innovation in the Free State
- Introduction
- 3.1. Research and teaching potential in the Free State
- 3.2. Challenges
- Conclusions and recommendations
- References
- Annex 3.A1. Internationalisation in the Free State universities
- Annex 3.A2. Examples of incubated innovation at the Central University of Technology (CUT)
- Annex 3.A3. Types of entrepreneurship teaching
- Chapter 4. Building capacity for regional development
- Introduction
- 4.1 Regional development in South Africa: NSDP
- 4.2 South Africa‟s HE context for building regional capacity
- 4.3 Aligning of higher education with the regional engagement mission
- 4.4 Partnership building in the higher education sector for regional development
- Conclusions and recommendations
- References
- Annex A. OECD review team
- Annex B. Programme of the review visit
