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Peer reviewedMapesela, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Examines reasons for the rapid growth of private colleges, the visible lack of sustainability for most, and their subsequent impact on local institutions. Investigates trends and events that have led to the establishment of both South African and overseas private colleges. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Private Colleges
Download full textLevy, Daniel C. – 2002
South Africa's private higher education system is an illustration of the worldwide surge in commercial private higher education. Important features in the South African case epitomize worldwide growth or show it in stark form. At the core of the starkness is the for-profit nature of South African private higher education. For-profit logic plays…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Global Education, Higher Education
