1. UNIVERSITIES SA ADVANCING PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION VOICE OF SA’S PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
Ahmed C Bawa
Chief Executive Officer
23-24 March 2017
National Skills Conference
Irene

2. preamble…HIGHER ED FUNDAMENTAL TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
Building competitive local, regional and national economies
Shaping and contributing to our nation-building projects
Addressing deep socioeconomic inequalities through creating the conditions for social and economic mobility
Addressing the national social justice agenda through its research and teaching

3. preamble….SOME NUMBERS
Decline in dropout rates
Increase in graduation rates
Graduates
STEM Graduates
2012
165,986
48,848
2014
185,375
55,574
Number of students in 1994: ±500,000
Number of students in 2014: ±1,000,000
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% African students: 72%
% Women students: 58%
Success Rates: 82% (Contact)
68% (Distance)
30% (STEM), 40% (H&SS), 30% (B, C, M)

4. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

5. LEARNING OBJECTIVES

6. SOME ANECDOTES Feedback from employers of engineering graduates.
Logistics in Belgium: Integration of innovation culture, thinking and activities into workplace environment.
And their lessons
Integrate cognitive, attitude and psychomotor learning at all levels – especially in PSET sector.
Innovation has roots in workplace environment.

7. POLICY SUGGESTIONS
Psychomotor, Cognitive and Affective Domains are central to all levels of education
Address the nature of the Knowledge Project of the PSET sector.
See learning and teaching across the sector as a continuum rather than as balkanised subsectors.
See the workplace – at all levels – as central to the learning project.

8. THANK YOU