Research Catalog

Title

Investment choices for South African education / edited by Graeme Bloch [and others].

Publication

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bloch, Graeme.

Description

vii, 130 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Investment Choices for South African Education was conceived between 2003 and 2007, the heady days of high economic growth in South Africa. However, since 2008, new trends have been set in motion by the global economic slowdown. The threat of slower growth compounded by the brake that South Africa's earlier under-investment in infrastructure placed on development are likely to make investment choices in education and skills development that much more complex. This presents a conundrum to South African policy-makers: neglect education, the foundation of a highly skilled population, and set in place long-term conditions for broader social and economic failure. Or set in place stronger investment patterns in education, alongside infrastructural investment, and provide for the preconditions of long-term sustainable growth and development. This book is a plea not only for more thought to be given to these questions, but also more investment in education to encourage sustainable development. In a set of thoughtful and well-researched essays and reflections, Investment Choices for South African Education opens the issues for discussion and debate.

Subject

• Education and state > South Africa
• Education > Research > South Africa
• Education, Primary > Research > South Africa
• Sustainable development > South Africa
• Education and state
• Education, Primary > Research
• Education > Research
• Sustainable development
• South Africa

Note

• This book has kindly been sponsored by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). Chapters in this book are a selection from a conference on 'Investment Choices for Education in Africa' held at the University of the Witwatersrand in September 2006, supported by the European Commission's CWCI Fund. The conference was organised by DBSA (Development Bank of Southern Africa), HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) and Wits School of Education.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-125) and index .

Contents

Lessons from the past two decades : investment choices for education and growth / Martin Carnoy (p. 15-38). -- Education, growth, and the 'new'public finance / Andrew Donaldson (p. 39-48). -- South African student performance in regional context / Servaas van den Berg (p. 49-69). -- South African education investment : a rights and skills agenda? / Luis Crouch (p. 70-80). -- Education and investment choices for vulnerable children in South Africa / Linda Richter (p. 90-110).

ISBN

• 9781868144853
• 1868144852

LCCN

2010365445

OCLC

• ocn300276343
• 300276343
• SCSB-1560252

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library