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| Title: | Research, Research Productivity and the State in South Africa |
| Authors: | Habib, Adam Morrow, Seán |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 62 |
| Pages: | 9-29 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | science and technology policy research Bibliography/Research Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/210428 |
| Abstract: | As a result of recognition by government and other entities that South Africa's share of global research output has steadily declined for over 15 years, a conference was organized in June 2005 on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology by the Africa Institute and the Human Sciences Research Council. The conference adopted a plan of action that is predicated on keeping good academics and scholars within the knowledge system, attracting a new generation of students to the research professions, encouraging research in areas that have beneficial impacts on the economy and society, and, finally, promoting institutional collaboration within and across national boundaries. Its viability depends on solutions being found to four distinct, but related problems: inadequate academic remuneration and onerous working conditions; the tension that seems to have emerged between advancing equity and realizing academic excellence; obstacles that undermine institutional collaboration within the higher education and science council sectors; and the poor quality of senior managers in the knowledge system. App., bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
