South African Universities Grapple With the Growth of Distance Learning

Key issues include quality control, language, and centralization

Officials at public universities in South Africa are chafing under a temporary moratorium on expansion of university distance-education programs in this country, imposed earlier this year while government officials develop a blueprint for a wide-ranging reorganization of higher education in South Africa.

The moratorium reflects concerns over a recent tectonic shift: Several Afrikaans-language universities, which

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