The South Africa - Norway Tertiary Education Development Programme (SANTED) was launched to:
- Improve access and retention rates, particularly of previously excluded women and men students.
- Restructure the higher education sector.
- Increase the cooperation between higher education institutions in South Africa and other SADC countries.
A review of the SANTED programme was carried out in 2005.This review concludes that the SANTED programme is highly relevant in terms of areas chosen and project components selected for implementation. SANTED is largely a demand driven programme. It is effective in terms of goals achievement, and efficient in its organization of implementation and monitoring because it combines the best of project and budget support, and because of its outsourcing of day-to-day management of it from Department of Education (DOE) to a Programme Secretariat.. Significant impacts have been achieved in the areas stated as priority fields for turning around the deteriorating administrative-, finance-, and human resources trends towards sustainable operations observed at the SANTED-supported institutions. The three focus areas of SANTED have been selected and formulated in such a way that they provide for exchanges of experience in ways that can prevent reinvention of costly solutions. The SANTED Project Director has organized the overall programme so as to facilitate such exchanges and mutual fertilization.
Review Report