STIAS, Stellenbosch
26 June 2018
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Working Papers
STIAS, Stellenboach
19 June 2018
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5 June 2018
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22 MAY, 2018
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15 May 2018
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24 April 2018
Servaas van der Berg has recently undertaken some work for the World Bank in Lesotho as part of a Public Expenditure Review.
The long walk: Considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP17/2015Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP17/2015 Abstract: This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess…
Principal leadership changes in South Africa: Investigating their consequences for school performance
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2016 Abstract: A rising number of school leadership changes have been occurring in South African schools as a large proportion…
Teacher supply and the quality of schooling in South Africa. Patterns over space and time
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2016 Abstract: The paper addresses policy questions in South Africa’s education system using a newly merged 1999 to 2013 panel…
Treating schools to a new administration: Evidence from South Africa of the impact of better practices in the system-level administration of schools
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2016 Abstract: School examination results are far from ideal measures of progress in schooling systems, yet if analysed with sufficient…
Institutional wage-setting, labour demand and labour supply: causal estimates from a South African pseudo-panel
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2016 Abstract: Unemployment in South Africa has been attributed to multiple causes. Wages have grown faster than productivity to reduce…
Graduate unemployment and Higher Education Institutions in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2016 Abstract: The emerging consensus regarding high and rising levels of graduate unemployment in South Africa in recent years has…
Wage flexibility in a high unemployment regime: spatial heterogeneity and the size of local labour markets
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP09/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP09/2016 Abstract: Whereas some previous microeconometric evidence suggests that wage setters in South Africa are highly responsive to external local…
Interrogating a Paradox of Performance in the WCED: A Provincial and Regional Comparison of Student Learning
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2016 Abstract: The Western Cape, one of South Africa’s better performing provinces in terms of educational outcomes, has a relatively…
Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 National Matric Cohort
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP16/2016This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in matric.
Disentangling the language effect in South African schools: Measuring the impact of ‘language of assessment’ in grade 3 literacy and numeracy
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP19/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP19/2016 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to exploit an unusual occurrence whereby a large group of South African…
The “Funda Wande: Teaching Reading for Meaning” project aims to help address the fact that most (58%) South African children don’t read for meaning, by developing a high-quality, free, open-access and SAQA-approved course: the ‘Certificate in Teaching Early Grade Reading.”
In 2017, RESEP’s Chris van Wyk was commissioned by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), as the lead consultant to develop training materials and methodological tools to be used for capacity building activities.