The draft university policy is not about the public sector at all. Instead it sets out the future designations that will be available in the private higher education sector. It attends to the demand by private institutions that they too should be able ...
. The draft policy calls for three forms of higher education institution: universities, university colleges and higher education colleges. The commentators say that changing the designation of existing universities could be a volatile decision.Their reading of the document is understandable because the document is poorly worded and ambiguous – perhaps intentionally so.
Given the racist differentiation of the past, it is unsurprising that few are willing to consider how we can more clearly differentiate our current public higher education system. The current system, thanks to significant post-apartheid restructuring, comprises 11 traditional universities, nine comprehensive universities, and six universities of technology.
Perhaps the characteristics of the proposed new university types – universities, university colleges and higher education colleges – will be used to make decisions about future public institutions, but the likelihood of them being applied to existing universities in the near future seems low.This legislation potentially attends to a pressing issue: the designations of private institutions.
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