Improving access to higher education in South Africa

In the future, technology will have an increasingly critical impact on the way educational institutions present their services. In South Africa, the challenge in higher education is to redress past inequalities and to restructure the educational system to rise to the challenges of a modern country that can be competitive in the 21st Century. Technological developments must therefore be used as multipliers to solve the escalating pressures by increased access, equity, redress and quality in education. While technology can fulfil a significant role, we propose that, give current levels of infrastructure development, the introduction of technology will increase the gap between developed and underdeveloped communities and should therefore rather be utilized to free up available educational resources