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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.)

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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.

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  • Stephanie Matseleng Allais, 2007. "Education service delivery," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 7(1), pages 65-78, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:7:y:2007:i:1:p:65-78
    DOI: 10.1177/146499340600700106
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