Education service delivery

Stephanie Matseleng Allais
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Stephanie Matseleng Allais: Stephanie Matseleng Allais is Director: Research and Development, Umalusi, the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training; doctoral candidate at School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand.

Progress in Development Studies, 2007, vol. 7, issue 1, 65-78

Abstract: International trends towards outcomes-based qualifications frameworks as the drivers of educational reform fit in well with trends in service delivery and public sector reform. Education reform in South Africa provides a particularly interesting case study of this phenomenon, because of the very comprehensive outcomes-based national qualifications framework that was implemented shortly after the transition to democracy. Problems with the framework as a basis for education reform became rapidly apparent, and the system is now deadlocked in a series of unresolved policy reviews. A key to understanding this collapse is the role of knowledge in relation to education. The outcomes-based qualification framework approach turns out to have very little to do with education, and in fact to have the potential to increase educational inequalities, particularly in poor countries.

Keywords: Outcomes-based education; national qualifications framework; qualification-driven reform; South Africa; education; service delivery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340600700106

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