- Title
- Schooling inequality, higher education and the labour market: evidence from a graduate tracer study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Title
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/3
- Creator
- Rogan, Michael, Reynolds, John
- Subject
- Educational equalization -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa College graduates -- Employment -- South Africa College majors -- South Africa
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3104
- Identifier
- vital:20369
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780868106045
- Description
- This study attempts to link schooling, demographic, socio-economic and academic factors to firstchoice degree completion and labour market outcomes. More specifically, this study investigates those factors that are most directly associated with whether the degrees that university graduates obtain reflect their first qualification choices, and also examines the effects of those factors and degree types on labour market outcomes. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. The next section reviews the literature on the transition from schooling to higher education in South Africa with a particular focus on programme choice, followed by the recent literature on graduate employment and unemployment, and the broad findings of the graduate tracer studies which have been conducted in South Africa to date. Section three describes the graduate tracer study design and the analysis upon which the empirical section of the paper is based. In section four, the results of the descriptive statistics and a multivariate analysis are presented in two parts. Finally, section five discusses the results and reflects on the implications for higher education in South Africa.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/3, Working Paper Series: Social Policy and Labour
- Rights
- Rogan, Michael and Reynolds, John
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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