After Apartheid, What?, A Review of Externally Initiated, Commissioned, and Supported Studies of Education in South Africa

Well before majority rule was achieved in South Africa, a wide range of external agencies had begun to conduct studies and offer advice on education in the country. The result has been an increasing flow of reports and studies on education, of differing purposes, scopes, lengths and approaches.This document provides an analysis of the different reports which were collected and reviewed up to 1994. It situates the studies in the perspective of South African education and policy, and highlights the major points of convergence and divergence among the studies. An overview of the sixty studies is provided in the form of an inventory which makes them accessible to a wider audience.