Do we need a four year degree?
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 19 May, 2008Mail and Guardian reports that the Education minister Naledi Pandor has asked her advisory body, the Council on Higher Education, to look into the viability of a four-year undergraduate degree as a response to South Africa's 50% university drop-out rate.
She is quoted saying "Do we limit a science student to just science courses or do we include literature? Should we have modules on African studies and developmental studies and courses in statistical numeracy? How do we modernise the programme?"