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Education is a tool used to elevate citizens from poverty and unemployment and thus contributes to nation-building and the promotion of a knowledge-based society in the information age. South Africa can take a cue from Asia and its rapid industrialization in the 1970s and its subsequent progressive education. The book is an illustrious, historical, and lucid discussion and commentary on the changing nature of education in the South African Higher education sector in particular. It covers a canvass of issues on higher education and the knowledge industry in the South African context and possible challenges that lie ahead. The twin challenges of low enrollment and high dropout rates in South African universities, especially at first-year level, are alarming and robbing the country of its economic potential. It is the need of the hour to collaborate on an international level to spur knowledge creation and economic growth, which South Africa so desperately needs. The book is a welcome addition for policy-makers and research scholars in higher education.

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Professor DD Tewari has a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and postdoctoral work experience at the University of Toronto, Canada. He began his academic career at the Indian Institute of Management (IIMA) in Ahmedabad in 1988. Later he moved to the then-University of Natal and now the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa, and assumed the position of Deputy Dean, soon becoming a full professor. In 2014, he joined as the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Administration, and Law (FCAL) at the University of Zululand, South Africa. Having published over 200 articles in acclaimed accredited journals and some 10 books and research monographs, he is an authority on his subject, winning several research awards for his work. He has been a visiting professor at HEC Montreal, Canada, and at the School of Economics, University of Shangdong, China. Currently, he is a Research Professor of Economics at the University of Zululand.

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