New Titles
Creating Knowledge Networks
Glenda Kruss; Gilton Klerck; Andrew Paterson; Shane Godfrey

The new science and technology framework has challenged higher education institutions in South Africa to create research partnerships with industry, to contribute to growing a national system of innovation. Through detailed case studies, this monograph explores how one new organisational form typical of the knowledge society, the network, is currently being created in practice, in all its complex and contingent reality, in three high technology fields. It is the third volume in the Working Partnerships: Higher Education, Industry and Innovation series.

280mm x 210mm
246pp
R 140.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2132-6
March 2006
South African Social Attitudes
Changing Times, Diverse Voices
Udesh Pillay; Benjamin Roberts; Stephen Rule (eds.)

A country’s attitudinal profile is as much a part of its social reality as are its demographic make-up, its culture and its distinctive social patterns. It helps to provide a nuanced picture of a country’s circumstances, its continuities and changes, its democratic health, and how it feels to live there. It also helps to measure the country’s progress towards the achievement of its economic, social and political goals, based on the measurement of both ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ realities.

240mm x 168mm
400pp
R 190.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2117-2
March 2006
Debating High Skills and Joined Up Policy
Andre Kraak; Hugh Lauder; Phillip Brown; David Ashton

Debates about ‘governance’ both within and outside of the South African state are increasingly turning to the question of ‘coordination failure’ – the inability of government to make interventions in key problem areas which require the inputs and actions of several government departments and agencies acting in concert with each other. Too often, the opposite occurs – the silo effect – where government departments work in isolation, unable and in some cases, unwilling to act on the interdependencies that straddle their governance responsibilities.

210mm x 148mm
72pp
R 80.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2133-4
March 2006
Multinationals on the periphery
DaimlerChrysler South Africa, human capital upgrading and regional economic development
Jo Lorentzen

Utilising the DaimlerChrysler human resources upgrade in one of South Africa’s least developed provinces as the basis, this is a well-developed case study of the relationship between human capital in host economies and international capital inflows. It describes how DaimlerChrysler upgraded human resources in its East London plant where the company manufactures the Mercedes C-Class model for export. Lorentzen explores the extent and depth of the upgrading along and beyond the automotive supply chain, and its repercussions on local education and training institutions. Finally, he analyses how foreign direct investment and local industrial development interact in the short and medium term, and hypothesises as to the possible longer-term outcomes in the absence of proper regional economic planning.

210mm x 148mm
44pp
R 50.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2131-8
February 2006
Higher education and work
Setting a new research agenda
Charlton Koen

Higher education and work consists of two papers. The first provides an analysis of research on graduate employment in South Africa, and reflects on the state of research on graduate employment and unemployment in South Africa, while the second looks at the challenges facing the education, training and employment of South Africa’s scientific labour force.

210mm x 148mm
62pp
R 80.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2118-0
January 2006
Marking Matric
Colloquium proceedings
Vijay Reddy (ed.)

The past ten years in South Africa has seen many changes in education: the creation of a single department of education; common examinations for all learners in public schools in the country, a new outcomes based education curriculum which was introduced to learners in the General Education and Training Phase since 1998 and will be introduced to the Further Education and Training Phase from 2006. To evaluate the success of these changes South African researchers still use the indicator of student achievement.

210mm x 148mm
140pp
R 140.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2116-4
February 2006
Measuring Innovation in OECD and non-OECD Countries
Selected Seminar Papers
William Blankley; Mario Scerri; Neo Molotja; Imraan Saloojee (eds.)

It is widely accepted that innovation is key to economic growth. Countries where research and innovation are high on the national agenda are best suited to prosper in the knowledge-based economy. Conversely, countries whose economies are mainly dependent on natural resources and basic industries tend to lack competitiveness and flexibility in adapting to changing global trends. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has long been concerned with the measurement of research and experimental development (R&D) and innovation activities.

210mm x 297mm
400pp
R 245.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2062-1
November 2005
A census of orphans and vulnerable children in two villages in Botswana
GN Tsheko; LW Odirile; M Segwabe; K Bainame

In 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organizations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole.



280mm x 210mm
34pp
R 60.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2149-0
November 2005
Household survey of HIV-prevalence and behaviour in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe, 2005
A baseline study
Exnevia Gomo; Shungu Munyati (eds.)

In 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organizations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole.



280mm x 210mm
132pp
R 120.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2148-2
November 2005
Psychosocial conditions of orphans and vulnerable children in two Zimbabwean districts
A baseline survey
Parkie S Mbozi; M Boy Sebit; Shungu Munyati (eds.)

In 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organizations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole.

280mm x 210mm
120pp
R 110.00
ISBN: 0-7969-2147-4
November 2005