A Profile of Postgraduate Higher Education and the Academic Research Community in South Africa - 2003

This report, commissioned by the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), provides a profile of the postgraduate subsector of HE and the HE research community in South Africa with a view to informing policy-makers and stakeholders of key trends and issues.
Postgraduate education and HE research form a pivotal part of the national science and innovation system and therefore have a key role to play in contributing towards national development. It is therefore important to track and analyse trends in these domains.
Constructing the profile has been constrained by the unavailability of complete and reliable data regarding some aspects of the inquiry. It is hoped that this report will form the basis of future and more comprehensive profiles. Despite these data limitations, the profile presents a comprehensive and informative account of the postgraduate subsector and the HE research community.