Driving Change : The Story of the South Africa Norway Tertiary Education Development Programme.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acronyms -- About the Authors -- The Editorial Group -- Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Promoting South African reform objectives through development cooperation -- The higher education policy context in South Africa -- Experiences of development cooperation -- Negotiation of the development cooperation agreement and setting up the SANTED Programme -- What was distinctive about SAN TED? -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 - The Norwegian perspective -- Recipient responsibility and the international agenda of development cooperation effectiveness -- Negotiations, issues at stake and critical success factors -- Going beyond development cooperation -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 - The role of the SANTED Secretariat: Riding the development cooperation bicycle, hands on and hands off -- Location, management and administration -- Project proposals and business plans -- Site visits and field trips -- Disbursing funds -- Moving from SANTED I to SANTED II -- Trouble-shooting through hands-on management -- Annual reports and monitoring -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 - Supporting and enhancing the academic project: Improving student throughput and success within an equity framework -- Conceptualising the projects and building an institutional framework for delivery -- Building institutional capacity and enhancing organisational learning -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 - Multilingualism for teaching and learning -- Multilingualism in South African higher education -- The legislative policy context for promotion of multilingualism in higher education -- The SANTED II Programme on Multilingualism -- The programme's theoretical foundations -- Introducing the four universities -- Challenges, unexpected results and lessons learnt -- Sustainability of the multilingualism projects beyond SANTED.

Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter 6 - Challenges relating to the establishment of comprehensive universities in the South African higher education sector -- The national policy context -- Institutional contexts and challenges -- Limitations and opportunities of the SANTED Project at UJ and NMMU -- Initiating the project: Development of a business plan and location of the project at each university -- Implementation of the project -- Institutional and national outcomes and influences -- Contributions of the project -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7 - Cross-border collaboration in the Southern African Development Community countries -- The regional context -- The SADC projects -- NEW -- ZAMANAWE -- UNISA-UAN Nursing Project -- Rhodes-UNA M: the 'Virtual Classroom' Collaboration -- Hurdle jumping -- Achieving goals -- Conclusion -- Conclusion - Learning from experience: Summing up the impact of SANTED and its legacies -- The higher education sector in South Africa as a key sub-sector for support -- The SANTED higher education agenda -- Analysing the experience of the various projects -- What might have worked better? -- Summarising the legacies from the SANTED experience -- Applying learning from SANTED to education systems at large -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- References -- Back cover.

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