CONCLUSION. 2014/2015 government spend on higher education to be R24.2 billion (as per DHET’s report titled Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2014) and the nominal GDP for 2014 as R3.8 trillion (Stats SA) then the South Africa ratio for 2014/2015 is about 0.64, a … THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS. The Department of Higher Education & Training provides integrated post-school education and training so citizens can improve the quality of their lives. The data slides were sourced from: a. DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and STI Policy/University of Stellenbosch – contributed by Nico SPECIFIC CHALLENGES FACING THE SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM 4. Education Series Volume V: Higher Education and Skills in South Africa, 2017 / Statistics South Africa. report: Towards a New Higher Education Landscape: Meeting the Equity, Quality and Social Development Imperatives of South Africa in the 21st Century (June 2000), which advised that the sustainability of the higher education system, including the effective and efficient use of resources required a reduction in the In South Africa, the 2015-16 budget for higher education is R30 billion. demanded of the South African education system in order for it to become a more egalitarian force in the labour market and in general. 1.1 It is the Ministry’s response to the Council on Higher Education’s Report, Towards a New Higher Education Landscape: Meeting the Equity, Quality and Social Development Imperatives of South Africa in the 21st Century, which was released in June 2000. the South African Qualifications Authority Act, 1995 (Act 58 of 1995), and includes tertiary education as contemplated in Schedule 4 of the Constitution; 'higher education institution' means any institution that provides higher education on a full-time, part-time or distance basis and which is- AKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SOURCES 1. Review of Higher Education in South Africa The New Funding Framework (NFF) for Public Higher Education, which has been applied by the South African government since the 2004/05 financial year (Ministry of Education, 2003), could in some senses be regarded as the result of an evolutionary process of formula funding This paper. Cuba 4.5%. THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS. 92-01-05 90 pp ISBN 978-0-621-46254-8 A complete set of Stats SA publications is available at Stats SA Library and the following libraries: A short summary of this paper. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2019 Report no. Download Full PDF Package. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. ment of Higher Education and Training of South Africa. ... Download .pdf Click below for: 1. If the government were to spend 1% of GDP on higher education, this would amount to R41 billion – an additional R11 billion and almost four times the reported shortfall due to the 0% increase (Cloete, 2015a). 5 The higher education Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) is the total number of students in higher education (in any age group) in a given year, expressed as a percentage of the 20–24-year-old age cohort. 2. Given this, the concluding section teases out possible education policy responses. Download. READ PAPER. Transformation of Higher Education (July 1997). Institutional data and other trend information indicate that performance patterns are robust.