Higher Education as a Tool for Progress in South Africa

Education is a tool used to elevate citizens from poverty and unemployment and thus contributes to nation-building and the promotion of a knowledge-based society in the information age. South Africa can take a cue from Asia and its rapid industrialization in the 1970s and its subsequent progressive education. The book is an illustrious, historical, and lucid discussion and commentary on the changing nature of education in the South African Higher education sector in particular. It covers a canvass of issues on higher education and the knowledge industry in the South African context and possible challenges that lie ahead. The twin challenges of low enrollment and high dropout rates in South African universities, especially at first-year level, are alarming and robbing the country of its economic potential. It is the need of the hour to collaborate on an international level to spur knowledge creation and economic growth, which South Africa so desperately needs. The book is a welcome addition for policy-makers and research scholars in higher education.