Reimagining higher education

AT A TIME when the South African higher education system is experiencing financial stresses of various kinds – cuts to subsidy, capped student fee increases, cuts to research funding, stresses in student funding and so on – one has to ask:

• What is the game plan?

• What is our imagination of the role of higher education for our context?

• Are they deemed to be necessary?

Universities across the world are reimagining their purpose and role in society following on the emergent