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KS Govinder, NP Zondo and MW Makgoba

Utilising the Equity Index to monitor, guide and drive transformation for South African universities. KS Govinder, NP Zondo and MW Makgoba. Introductory comments. Constitution – non-racial, non-sexist society; equity in education

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KS Govinder, NP Zondo and MW Makgoba

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  1. Utilising the Equity Index to monitor, guide and drive transformation for South African universities KS Govinder, NP Zondo and MW Makgoba

  2. Introductory comments • Constitution – non-racial, non-sexist society; equity in education • 1997 Education White Paper 3 indicates a single co-ordinated national HE system with 6 equity related goals • Employment Equity legislation – universities report in terms of equity/demographics

  3. Long walk to transformation • Student demographics • Enrolment: 12 years • Graduation: 14 years • Staff demographics • Overall: 43 years • Instructional/research staff: 40 years

  4. Introductory comments • Our Equity Indexuses the idea of distance between two points – the institution’s demographics and the national demographics (the benchmark) • Historically transformation in the system has been monitored nationally – the EI disaggregates this to an institutional basis and allows comparison • The same DHET/HEMIS data is used in the analysis as for historical analyses – it is now simply more transparent.

  5. Distance

  6. Distance Formula Distance between two points (x1,x2,…,xn) and (y1,y2,…,yn) is given by

  7. Equity Index Distance between organisational demographics and national demographics EI is the distance left to travel to arrive at the constitutional imperative of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic society

  8. Distance

  9. National demographic percentages

  10. Some Equity Indices

  11. National Student EIs (2011)

  12. National Student EIs (2011)

  13. Staff EIs (2011)

  14. Staff EIs (2011)

  15. Staff EIs (2011)

  16. Equity-weighted Productivity (2011)

  17. Equity vs Research Output EI Total weighted productivity

  18. Equity vs Per Capita Output EI Per Capita research output

  19. Council and Senate Profiles (2013)

  20. Council and Senate Profiles (2013)

  21. Transformation drivers

  22. Pace of transformation - students

  23. Pace of transformation - staff

  24. Changes from 2007 to 2011 • No significant difference in benchmarks (2001 versus 2011) • Significant improvement in student enrolment and graduation • Significant improvement in overall, executive, instructional/research, non-professional admin and specialised support staff profiles • No significant improvement in service, technical and trades/craft staff profiles.

  25. Changes from 2007 to 2011 • NMMU, TUT, UFH, US and UZ have a worse student enrolment profile. • CPUT, UV, UZ and VUT have a worse student graduation profile. • Overall, NWU, UFS, and WSU have a worse staff profile. • NWU is the only institution with a worse instructional/research staff profile.

  26. Long walk to transformation • Student demographics • Enrolment: 12 years (race: 8, gender: -11) • Graduation: 14 years (race: 11, gender: -28) • Staff demographics • Overall: 43 years (race: 43, gender: -24 (stable at 2)) • Instructional/research staff: 40 years (race: 42, gender: 17)

  27. Summary • EI is a quantitative measure to determine equity profiles • Can be used to measure transformation and drive transformation • Fresh look to support goals of the Constitution, Education White Paper 3 and Employment Equity Legislation. • Supports and aids the work of the Transformation Oversight Committee

  28. Impact/Conclusions • Six year Enrolment planning • Target: Improve Enrolment and Graduation EIs by the better of 20% or one quintile • New Funding Framework • Funding targeted transformation. • New Education White Paper • Target: Improve Overall Staff EI by the better of 20% or one quintile • Target: Improve Academic Staff EI by the better of 20% or one quintile • Can now weight existing indicators via equity

  29. References/Acknowledgements • Govinder, K., Makgoba, MW., An Equity Index for South Africa, South African Journal of Science 109 (5/6) (May/June 2013) 6-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2013/a0020 • KS. Govinder, NP. Zondo, MW. Makgoba, A new look into demographic transformation for universities in South Africa, South African Journal of Science (accepted; to appear 2013) • Anonymous reviewers of above articles • Professor Ian Bunting; DrNicoCloete (CHET) • Professor Mark Bunting (Rhodes) • Mr Chief Mabizelaand staff (DHET) • MrPaliLehohla and staff (StatsSA)

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