Going to University
Around the world, more young people than ever before are attending university. Student numbers in South Africa have doubled since democracy and for many families, higher education is a route to a better future for their children. But alongside the overwhelming demand for higher education, questions...
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African Minds
2026
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| author | Case, Jennifer MARSHALL, DELIA McKenna, Sioux Mogashana, Disaapele |
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| description | Around the world, more young people than ever before are attending university. Student numbers in South Africa have doubled since democracy and for many families, higher education is a route to a better future for their children. But alongside the overwhelming demand for higher education, questions about its purposes have intensified. Deliberations about the curriculum, culture and costing of public higher education abound from student activists, academics, parents, civil society and policy-makers. We know, from macro research, that South African graduates generally have good employment prospects. But little is known at a detailed level about how young people actually make use of their university experiences to craft their life courses. And even less is known about what happens to those who drop out. This accessible book brings together the rich life stories of 73 young people, six years after they began their university studies. It traces how going to university influences not only their employment options, but also nurtures the agency needed to chart their own way and to engage critically with the world around them. The book offers deep insights into the ways in which public higher education is both a private and public good, and it provides significant conclusions pertinent to anyone who works in and cares about universities. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1757732026-04-20T08:38:03Z Going to University Case, Jennifer MARSHALL, DELIA McKenna, Sioux Mogashana, Disaapele Social science Cultural & ethnic studies African studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Around the world, more young people than ever before are attending university. Student numbers in South Africa have doubled since democracy and for many families, higher education is a route to a better future for their children. But alongside the overwhelming demand for higher education, questions about its purposes have intensified. Deliberations about the curriculum, culture and costing of public higher education abound from student activists, academics, parents, civil society and policy-makers. We know, from macro research, that South African graduates generally have good employment prospects. But little is known at a detailed level about how young people actually make use of their university experiences to craft their life courses. And even less is known about what happens to those who drop out. This accessible book brings together the rich life stories of 73 young people, six years after they began their university studies. It traces how going to university influences not only their employment options, but also nurtures the agency needed to chart their own way and to engage critically with the world around them. The book offers deep insights into the ways in which public higher education is both a private and public good, and it provides significant conclusions pertinent to anyone who works in and cares about universities. 2026-04-20T08:38:02Z 2026-04-20T08:38:02Z 2026-04-16T13:26:06Z 2018 book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781928331704_22 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112546 9781928331704 9781928331698 9781928331711 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175773 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112546/1/9781928331704.pdf African Minds African Minds 10.47622/9781928331698 10.47622/9781928331698 36099d72-8b22-4bf5-ab27-c2090263b9c6 9781928331704 9781928331698 9781928331711 African Minds 176 Cape Town, South Africa open access |
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