Education service delivery: the disastrous case of outcomes-based qualifications frameworks

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dc.contributor.authorAllais, Stephanie Matseleng
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-17T08:25:51Z
dc.date.available2024-04-17T08:25:51Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentCentre for Research Education and Labour (REAL)
dc.description.abstractInternational trends towards outcomes-based qualifications frameworks as the drivers of educational reform fi t 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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dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationAllais, S. M. (2007). Education service delivery: The disastrous case of outcomes-based qualifications frameworks. Progress in Development Studies, 7(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340600700106
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/146499340600700106
dc.identifier.issn1464-9934 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1477-027X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38376
dc.journal.titleProgress in Development Studies
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0003-3909-641X
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.rights© 2007 SAGE Publications.
dc.schoolSchool of Education
dc.subjectOutcomes-based education
dc.subjectNational qualifications framework
dc.subjectQualification-driven reform
dc.subjectEducation service delivery
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.titleEducation service delivery: the disastrous case of outcomes-based qualifications frameworks
dc.typeArticle
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