Approaches to Degree Standards and Quality Assurance in Post-apartheid South African Higher Education-Comparative Perspectives

doi:10.4324/9781315042244-23

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Approaches to Degree Standards and Quality Assurance in Post-apartheid South African Higher Education-Comparative Perspectives

ABSTRACT

The educational mission of the longest-established university in South Africa is encapsulated in these words:

We are determined to ensure that each degree programme … produces the kind of graduates our continent requires to build stable democracies and growing economies in a rapidly changing, globally competitive environment.

(Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, April 1998)