Correction to: Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa (Higher Education, (2019), 77, 4, (567-583), 10.1007/s10734-018-0291-9)

Czerniewicz, L

Ivancheva, M

Morris, NP

Swartz, R

Higher Education

This paper examines the idea of 'core business' in contemporary South African public universities. South Africa's public higher education system has global ambitions, but is also highly internally stratified. Drawing on new data from interviews with higher education leaders and government policymakers across a number of South African institutions, we show that while the rhetoric of 'core business' of the university has been adopted by higher education leaders, the question of what constitutes the purpose of the university, in South Africa and arguably beyond, is subject to ongoing debate and negotiation. The multiplicity of conflicting but coexisting narratives about what universities should do in South African society—producing excellent research, preparing a labour force, or addressing societal inequalities—exposes a persisting tension surrounding the purpose of a public university. And while this tension has historical origins, we show that responses to addressing these various roles of the institution are not developed organically and in a neutral context. They emerge under conflicts over limited state funding and attendant and opportune market pressure put on public universities in times of crisis, that shape profoundly their framing and outcomes, and the future of the universities

Swartz, Rebecca

Ivancheva, Mariya

Czerniewicz, Laura

Morris, Neil P.

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Between a rock and a hard place : dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa

This paper examines the idea of ‘core business’ in contemporary South African public universities. South Africa’s public higher education system has global ambitions, but is also highly internally stratified. Drawing on new data from interviews with higher education leaders and government policymakers across a number of South African institutions, we show that while the rhetoric of ‘core business’ of the university has been adopted by higher education leaders, the question of what constitutes the purpose of the university, in South Africa and arguably beyond, is subject to ongoing debate and negotiation. The multiplicity of conflicting but coexisting narratives about what universities should do in South African society—producing excellent research, preparing a labour force, or addressing societal inequalities—exposes a persisting tension surrounding the purpose of a public university. And while this tension has historical origins, we show that responses to addressing these various roles of the institution are not developed organically and in a neutral context. They emerge under conflicts over limited state funding and attendant and opportune market pressure put on public universities in times of crisis, that shape profoundly their framing and outcomes, and the future of the universities

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Between a rock and a hard place: Dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa

Rebecca Swartz

Mariya Ivancheva

Laura Czerniewicz

Neil P. Morris

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Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa

Correction to: Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa

CORRECT IONCorrection to: Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmasregarding the purpose of public universities in South AfricaRebecca Swartz1 & Mariya Ivancheva2 & Laura Czerniewicz1 & Neil P. Morris2Published online: 29 December 2018# The Author(s) 2018Correction to: High Educhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0291-9The article “Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmas regarding the purpose of publicuniversities in South Africa” written by Rebecca Swartz, Mariya Ivancheva, Laura Czerniewicz,and Neil P. Morris, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal(currently SpringerLink) on June 20, 2018 without open access.With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on07 December 2017 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under theterms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproductionin any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and thesource, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.The original article has been corrected.Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repro-duction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide alink to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.Higher Education (2019) 77:585https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0348-9The online version of the original article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0291-9* Rebecca SwartzRebecca.swartz@uct.ac.za1 Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch,Cape Town 7700, South Africa2 School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Correction to: Between a rock and a hard place: dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa

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