Towards measuring the economic value of higher education: lessons from South Africa
Towards measuring the economic value of higher education: lessons from South Africa
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10.1080/03050068.2017.1254985
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
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3.3
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Allais, Stephanie
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作者：
Allais, Stephanie
学生资金危机导致大多数南非大学在2015年和2016年的抗议活动后关闭数周。对这些事件的政策反应需要深入了解高等教育，社会和经济之间的关系。本文质疑的假设，支持目前的方法来衡量南非高等教育。它认为，劳动力市场关系的分析，与回报率，毕业生示踪研究，雇主的要求和满意度的研究，给我们一个相对当代的数据快照，但没有告诉太多的因果关系的动态测量的形式。它们包含了有趣的信息，但不应被用来夸大高等教育与经济之间的关系。与其他高等教育评估方法一起，它们告诉我们更多的是劳动力市场如何寻找候选人之间的区别，而不是高等教育为社会和经济增加的价值。明确的公共政策对策需要更好的衡量形式和更好的分析工具。
A crisis of student funding has led to most South African universities being closed for weeks, after protests in 2015 and again in 2016. A policy response to these events requires insight into relationships between higher education, society, and the economy. This paper interrogates the assumptions which underpin current approaches to measuring higher education in South Africa. It argues that analyses of labour market relationships, associated with forms of measurement linked to rates of return, graduate tracer studies, and employer requirements and satisfaction studies, give us a snapshot of relatively contemporary data, but do not tell much about the dynamics of causation. They contain interesting information but should not be used to overclaim about the relationship between higher education and the economy. Taken together with other approaches to higher education evaluation, they tell us more about how labour markets are looking for distinctions between candidates than about the value that higher education adds to societies and economies. A clear public policy response needs better forms of measurement and better tools of analysis.