Towards the "New South Africa": Equal Opportunity Policies at the University of Cape Town.

Herbstein, Frank H.

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ERIC Number: EJ470968

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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Towards the "New South Africa": Equal Opportunity Policies at the University of Cape Town.

Herbstein, Frank H.

Higher Education, v26 n2 p183-98 Sep 1993

Discussion of South Africa's new policy expanding access to higher education focuses on the efforts of the University of Cape Town to change the gender composition and racial balance of its student and faculty populations. Constraints limiting applications of the new policies and some accompanying tensions and contradictions are analyzed. (MSE)

Descriptors: Access to Education, College Desegregation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Public Policy, Racial Distribution, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Trend Analysis, Universities

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: South Africa

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