• 1979 Bachelor of Social Science (University of Natal, South Africa)
  

• 1980 Bachelor of Social Science Honours (University of Natal, South Africa) (First Class)
  

• 1996 Certificate in Higher Education and Science Policy (Boston University, USA)
  

• 1997 Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (The University of York, United Kingdom)
   
  

• 1978 Certificate of Merit Award for Outstanding Student: Economic History 1, University of Natal

• 1979 Certificate of Merit Award for Outstanding Student: Economic History 2, University of Natal
  McIntyre Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in the Department of Economic History, University of Natal

• 1980 Bachelor of Social Science Honours Research Scholarship, University of Natal; Human Sciences Research Council Honours Bursary
  

• 1981-1982 Masters scholarship, University of Cape Town
  

• 1986-88 British Council Award, The University of York, United Kingdom
  

• 1995-96 Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, Boston University, United States of America
  

• 1996-1997 Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship, The University of York, United Kingdom

• 1999-2006 Extraordinary Professor, University of Western Cape

• 2004 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Free State
  

• 2008 Honorary Doctorate from The University of York (United Kingdom);
  Inyathelo Exceptional Philanthropy Award in recognition of Excellence and Leadership in Personal South African Philanthropy

• 2015 Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University
  

• 2022 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study research fellowship (5 months)
  

• 2023 HSRC/USAf Award for the Social Sciences and Humanities - Runner-up, Social Justice Scholarship, Established Researcher category, 13 April.

• 1983-1986 Co-ordinator, Grassroots Publications - incorporating Grassroots community newspaper; Learning Roots student newspaper; New Era news magazine; Grassroots Rural Project and Grassroots Media Education and Training Project

• 1987-1988 Research Assistant, Research on Education in South Africa project, University of Essex, United Kingdom

• 1989-1992 Lecturer, Department of Comparative Education, University of Western Cape; Visiting lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town

• 1992-1994 Senior Researcher/Research Training Co-ordinator, Education Policy Unit, University of Western Cape; Visiting lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town

• 1995-1998 Lecturer, Department of Comparative Education, University of Western Cape

• 1998-1999 Associate Professor of Education Policy; Director, Education Policy Unit, University of Western Cape

• 1999-2006 Chief Executive Officer, Council on Higher Education

• 2006-2014 Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University

• 2014-2018 Program Director: International Higher Education & Strategic Projects, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• 2019 Consulting Fellow, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• 2019 - 2020 Mellon Research Fellow, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal

• 2020 – 2023 Research Professor, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal

• 2023 – Research Professor, Department of History, Humanities Faculty, University of the Free State

• 1993
  Member, Science and Technology Initiative delegation to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany

• 1995
  Member, Ministry of Education, Higher Education Discussion Group
  Member, Advisory Committee to the Minister of Science and Technology on constituting the new Human Sciences Research Council governing council
  Member, Governance Task Group of the National Commission on Higher Education

• 1999
  Member, Minister of Education’s delegation to the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, Paris

• 2001-2005
  Member, Committee of Heads of Research and Technology

• 2002-2021
  Trustee, Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust

• 2003
  Member, National Advisory Council on Innovation Review Panel
  Member, South African delegation to the UNESCO five-year follow-up to the World Conference on Higher Education, Paris

• 2003-2005
  Member, Executive Committee of the Committee of Heads of Research and Technology Member, SA-USA Fulbright Commission Fulbright Fellows Selection Committee

• 2004-2005
  Member, South African Qualifications Authority

• 2005-2008
  Member of President Mbeki’s Higher Education Working Group

• 2006-2013
  Member of the Board of Higher Education South Africa

• 2007-2008
  Chairperson of the Association of African Universities Scientific Committee on Higher Education Research

• 2007-2009
  Member of the Executive Committee of Higher Education South Africa

• 2008-2009
  Member, Education Think Tank of the Development Bank of Southern Africa

• 2008-2013
  Chairperson of Higher Education South Africa Funding Strategy Group

• 2013
  Chairperson of Higher Education South Africa Learning and Teaching Strategy Group

• 2013 –
  Member of the Board of the Centre for Higher Education Transformation

• 2014
  Chairperson, Higher Education South Africa

• 2015
  Member of the World Social Science Forum 2015 Scientific Committee

• 2015-2018
  Member of the Think Tank of the Third Carnegie Enquiry into Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality

• 2020 –2024
  Member, Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

• 2022
  Member, Tennis South Africa committee to investigate recognition and reparations for former non-racial tennis players.

• 2022 –
  Member, Network Coordination Committee of the Knowledge Network on the Right to Education from the Global South of the Social Science Councils from Latin America (CLACSO), Africa (CODESRIA) and the Arab World (ACSS)

• 1983-1986
  Principal Author, numerous project proposals for the support of Grassroots Publications by Dutch, German, British and Unites States foundations; Communication and liaison with Dutch (ICCO), German (MISEROR), British (OXFAM) and Unites States (Rockefeller) donors

• 1993-1999
  Author, numerous proposals for the Education Policy Unit; Communication and liaison with SIDA (Sweden), Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, IDRC (Canada) United Nations Training and Education Programme for Southern Africa, and South African funding and development agencies (Kagiso Trust, Independent Development Trust, Desmond Tutu Educational Trust)

• 2000-2006
  Author, numerous proposals for the Council on Higher Education supported by Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, UK DFID, and the Finnish government

• 2006-2013
  Author/coordinator/sponsor, numerous proposals of Rhodes University supported by AW Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Nuffic, NORAD, Atlantic Philanthropies, Freedom Park, South African corporate donors, alumni philanthropists

• 2020
  Author, proposals to the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust

• 2023
  Vrije University of Amsterdam commission for research study and report on postgraduate development (R468 000)

Books

• 1991
  Unterhalter, E., Wolpe, H., Badat, S. et al (eds.) Apartheid Education and Popular Struggle in South Africa. Johannesburg: Ravan Press

• 1992
  Editor, National Education Policy Investigation Support Services Research Report
  Editor, National Education Policy Investigation Library and Information Services Research Report

• 1999
  Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid: From SASO to SANSCO, 1968-1990. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

• 2002
  Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid. New York: Routledge Falmer

• 2004
  Cloete, N., Pillay, P., Badat, S., and Moja, T. (2004) National Policy and a Regional response in South African Higher Education. Oxford/Cape Town: James Currey/David Philip

• 2009
  Black Man, You Are on Your Own. Johannesburg: Steve Biko Foundation & STE Publishers

• 2012/2013
  The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid. Johannesburg: Jacana and Brill

• 2023
  Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-racial International Tennis Tour, 1971 Scotsville: UKZN Press

Book Chapters

• 1991
  “Reformist strategies in black tertiary education since 1976”, in Unterhalter, E., Wolpe, H. and Badat S. et al (ed.) Apartheid Education and Popular Struggle in South Africa. Johannesburg: Ravan Press
  “Democratising education policy research for social transformation”, in Unterhalter. E. et al (ed.) Education in a Future South Africa: Policy Issues for Transformation. London: Heinemann

• 1993
  (with Lazarus, S.) “Towards academic development and equality of opportunity: A critical analysis of the Education 1 Tutorial Programme”, in M Walker (ed.) Explorations in Change: Case Studies in Academic Development. University of Western Cape Academic Development Centre

• 1994
  (with Wolpe, H and Barends, Z) “The post-secondary education system: Towards policy formulation for equality and development”, in Changing by Degrees: Equity issues in South African Tertiary Education. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press

• 1997
  “Education politics in the transition period”, in Kallaway, P. et al (ed.) Education after Apartheid: South African Education in Transition. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press

• 2001
  “South African higher education at the beginning of the new millennium: Realities, problems and challenges”, in Baijnath, N., Maimela, S., and Singh, P. (ed.) Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning. Pretoria: University of South Africa and Technikon Southern Africa

• 2003
  “A South African Perspective on System-Level Indicators for Higher Education”, in Yonezawa, A and Kaiser, F (ed.) System-Level Strategic Indicators for Monitoring Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Bucharest: UNESCO-CEPES

• 2004
  “Transforming South African Higher Education, 1990 - 2003: Goals, Policy Initiatives and Critical Challenges and Issues”, in Cloete, N., Pillay, P., Badat, S. and Moja, T. (2004) National Policy and a Regional response in South African Higher Education. Oxford/Cape Town: James Currey

• 2006
  “From Innocence to Critical Reflexivity: Critical Researchers, Research and Writing, and Higher Education Policy-Making”, in Neave, G. (ed.) Knowledge, Power and Dissent: Critical Perspectives on Higher Education and Research in Knowledge Society. Paris: UNESCO

• 2010
  “Global rankings of Universities: A perverse and present Burden”, in Unterhalter, E. and Carpentier, V. Whose interests are we serving? Global Inequalities and Higher Education. London: Palgrave
  “The word-class university and the global South”, in UNESCO International Social Science Council (ed.) World Social Science Report: Knowledge Divides. Paris: UNESCO

• 2012
  “Redressing the Colonial/Apartheid Legacy: Social Equity, Redress and Higher Education Admissions in Democratic South Africa”, in Hasan, Z. and Nussbaum, M. (ed.) Equalizing Education - Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India, U.S. and South Africa. Delhi: Oxford University Press
  “Redressing apartheid’s legacy of social exclusion: social equity, redress and admissions to higher education in South Africa”, in Halvorsen, T. and Vale, P. (eds.) One World, Many Knowledges: Regional Experiences and Cross-Regional Links in Higher Education. Bellville:  Southern African – Nordic Centre

• 2014
  “Institutional Combinations and the Creation of a New Higher Education Institutional Landscape in post-1994 South Africa,” in Curaj, A., Georghiou, L., Harper, J.C., Pricopie, R. and Egron-Polak, E. (eds.) Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education: International Practice and Emerging Opportunities. Springer
  (with Sayed, Y.) “Post-1994 South African Education: The Challenge of Social Justice”, in Rotberg, R. (ed.) Strengthening Governance in Africa and South Africa: Building on Mandela’s Legacy. ANNALS, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences

• 2015
  “Academic Inbreeding: The South African Case”, in Yudkevich, M., Altbach, P.G., and Rumbley, L.E. (eds.) Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan 

• 2016
  “SASO and Black Consciousness, and the shift to Congress politics”, in Heffernan, A. and Noor Nieftagodien, N. (eds.) Students Must Rise Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto ’76. Johannesburg: Wits University Press

• 2017
  “The Idea of Higher Education as an Instrument for Social Mobility and Societal Transformation: A critique of Nelson Mandela”, in Soudien, C. (ed.) Nelson Mandela: Comparative Perspectives of His Significance for Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers

• 2019
  “The Equity – Quality/Development Paradox, and Higher Education Transformation in post-1994 South Africa”, in Reynolds, J., Fine, B., and Van Niekerk, R. (eds.) Race, class, and the post-apartheid democratic state. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press

• 2022
  Contesting Northern Hegemony in Knowledge Making in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Research on, for, with, in, and of Africa. In Sounaye, A. and Kresse, K. (ed.) Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World. Berlin: ZMO-Studies, Vol. 43.
  Reflections on the review. In Review of Higher Education in South Africa Twenty-Five Years into Democracy. Council on Higher Education, Pretoria.

• 2023
  Re-envisioning Universities in Africa as African Universities. In Woldegiorgis, E. T. (ed) Creating the New African University. Book under preparation by the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg.

• In preparation
  Leading and transforming the University currently called Rhodes, 2006-2014. Invited chapter on university leadership for a CODESRIA book edited by Paul Zeleza

Journal Articles

• 1995
  “Education politics in the transition period”. Comparative Education, June

• 1998
  (with Sayed, Y. and Kruss. G.) “Students’ experience of postgraduate supervision at the University of Western Cape”. Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol. 22, No. 3

• 2005
  “South Africa: Distance Higher Education Policies for Access, Social Equity, Quality, and Social and Economic Responsiveness in a Context of the Diversity of Provision”. Distance Education, Vol. 26, No. 2, August, pp. 183-204

• 2009
  “Theorising institutional change: post-1994 South African higher education”. Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 34, No.4, pages 455 – 467

• 2013
  “Theses on institutional planning and research at universities”. South African Journal on Higher Education, Vol. 27 (2).
  “Jakes Gerwel (1946–2012): Humble intellectual, scholar and leader”. South African Journal of Science, Volume 109, No.1/2, January/February

• 2016
  “Deciphering the Meanings and Explaining the South African Higher Education Students Protests of 2015-16”. Pax Academica African Journal of Academic Freedom, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 71-106.

• 2020
  “Trepidation, longing, and belonging: Liberating the curriculum at universities in South Africa”. The MISR Review, No. 3, May
  “Reproduction, transformation and public South African higher education during and beyond Covid-19”. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, No. 104, December

• In preparation
  Revisiting the Dynamics and Character of Rural Struggles in South Africa, 1920s - 1960s. Journal of Southern African Studies.

• 1993:
  "The post-secondary education sector in the context of the South African national research system". Background Report prepared for the African National Congress Research Department
  (with van Niekerk, R) "Governance of the post-secondary education system". Policy Report prepared for the Centre for Education Policy Development
  (with Bawa, A.) "Democratising the South African research system". Report prepared for the Union of Democratic University Staff Associations Policy Forum
  "Beyond the Scientific Advisory Council: Short-term and long-term options".     
  (with Barron, F. and Mohamed, N.) “Councils of Universities” Report prepared for Dr. C. Manganyi, Director-General of the Department of Education
  “Science councils: Towards the democratisation of governance". Report prepared for the Science and Technology Initiative

• 1995:
  (with Barron, F, Fisher, G, Pillay, P and Wolpe, H) "Differentiation and Disadvantage: The Historically Black Universities in South Africa". Report prepared for the Desmond Tutu Educational Trust
  “The Centre for Science Development: Notes on Role, Functions and Structure, 1990 - 1995”. Discussion document produced for the Centre for Science Development, Human Sciences Research Council
  (with Wolpe, H.) “The governance of higher education”. Discussion document prepared for the University of Western Cape submission to the National Commission on Higher Education

• 1997:
  “The Black Consciousness Movement: A Historical Background”. Paper prepared for the Research Department of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, October

• 1998:
  “Higher Education in South Africa: The Historically Disadvantaged Institutions”. Briefing Paper prepared for the Kellogg Foundation, May
  “Principal Distinguishing Features between Historically White Universities and Historically Black Universities”. Fact Sheet produced for the Kellogg Foundation, June
  (with Sayed, Y. and Watters, K.) “Curriculum Innovation through Multimedia: The case of the University of Cape Town Multimedia Education Group's Referencing Tools and Skills Project”. Evaluation Report commissioned by the University of Cape Town Multimedia Education Group and the Information Literacy Project of the Adamastor Trust, September
  (with Sayed, Y.) “Learning from the 1998 Information Literacy Project/Multimedia Education Group Evaluation”. Information Literacy Project of the Adamastor Trust, December

• 1999:
  (with Sayed, Y.) “Review report on the restructuring proposal of the Education, Training and Development Group, Technikon Southern Africa”. Prepared for the Faculty of Applied Community Sciences, Technikon Southern Africa, January

• 2022:
  Thirteen Propositions on Teaching and Learning beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Research Report prepared for the DHET/NSF-DSI/NRF/SARChI Chair in Teaching and Learning at the University of Johannesburg, April

• 2023:
  Postgraduate Education and Research at the CPC Universities and Supportive, Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Environments in which Postgraduates Can Thrive. Commissioned by the Creating Postgraduate Collaborations Consortium, a European Union funded consortium of nine universities based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Magazines/magazine articles

• 1990
  ‘Eastern Europe: What can our organisations learn’, New Era magazine, 5, 1

• 1991
  ‘Open schools: new arenas of struggle’, New Era magazine, 6, 1

• 1993
  (with Ismail, F.) ‘Over the volcano’, Work in Progress, No 94, December

• 1994
  ‘Democratising governance’ in Sonn, F (ed.) DSA in Depth: Reconstructing Education, February
  ‘Creating a “new political space”’ in Sonn, F (ed.) DSA in Depth: Reconstructing Education, February

• 1999
  ‘South African higher education: The challenge of change’. International Higher Education, Vol. 15, Spring
  ‘The myths and realities of higher education and applied research’. Development Update Vol. 2, No. 4, August

• 2001
  ‘Higher Education: Towards a New Landscape’. Education Forum Annual

• 2002
  ‘South African Higher Education: Overcoming Problems, Meeting Challenges’. News from the Nordic Africa Institute, No. 2, Uppsala, Sweden

• 2011
  ‘Free Higher Education for South Africa?’. International Higher Education, No. 63, Spring
  ‘University access and admissions’. Insight, Issue 03, September, Pretoria, Higher Education South Africa

• 2012
  ‘Student leadership: SASO to the present day’. Frank Talk, Issue 4, May

• 2013
  ‘Developing Rhodes as a de-racialised, de-masculinised, de-gendered institution: Interview with Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat’. Women’s Academic Solidarity Association Rhodes University, In the Company of Women: Ten Years of WASA. Rhodes University, July

• 2018
  ‘Black professors, deracialisation and transformation’, The Journalist, November 28

• 2023
  Dr Zuleikha Mayat: An Appreciation. Durban: Digniti

Media Articles

• 1992
  ‘What is Policy’, Learning Nation (New Nation supplement), February 14-120, p. 17
  ‘Intellectuals and Policy-making’, Learning Nation (New Nation supplement), March 20-27, p. 17

• 1992
  ‘Retrenchments reflect blurred vision”, Cape Times, October

• 2002
  ‘Higher Education Shows Promise, Must Try Harder’, The Sunday Times, 3 February
  ‘A Proud Past should not Lead UWC into Complacency about its Future’, Cape Times, 26 April
  ‘Consider National, not Narrow, Interests’. The Sunday Times, 2 June

• 2004
  ‘This is what I really said’, The Sunday Times, 5 September
  “Respect core purposes of Higher Education”, Mail & Guardian, 11 November

• 2005
  ‘We are Home Affairs, but Who Really Cares: An Open Letter to the Minister of Public Service and Administration’, Pretoria News, 13 May
  ‘SASCO has vital role to play in changing higher education’, City Press, 12 June

• 2008
  ‘Agents of Social Progress’, Daily Dispatch, 25 March
  ‘Universities need a bigger role in public life’, Cape Times, 8 April
  ‘Return to Critical Scholarship’, Mail and Guardian, 11 April
  ‘Graduates have responsibilities’, Daily Dispatch, 11 April
  ‘The struggle of memory’, Daily Dispatch, 18 September

• 2009
  ‘Schooling: Failures, challenges’, Daily Dispatch, 24 September
  ‘Rich ideas need for education’, Daily Dispatch, 25 September

• 2010
  ‘Seeking free higher education’, Daily Dispatch, 17 March
  ‘Free higher education for all is an ideal worth fighting for’, Cape Times, 22 April

• 2011
  ‘EC official’s reply flawed, dangerous’, Daily Dispatch, 24 January
  ‘SASO - mass black organisation committed to liberation’, Daily Dispatch, 27 January ‘Education failing to ensure shift from subject to citizen’, Daily Dispatch, 9 February
  ‘We are not free, only free to start’, Weekend Argus, 1 May
  ‘Fight for an equal society not over’, Daily Dispatch, 3 May
  ‘Information Bill changes welcome but more needed’, City Press, 17 July
  ‘Still some flaws to fix in information bill’, Sunday Tribune, 17 July
  ‘Changes to secrecy bill are welcome but not far-reaching enough’, Sunday Weekend Argus, 17 July
  ‘Threat to academic freedom’, Herald, 18 July

• 2012
  ‘Small, but a research front-runner, Daily Dispatch, 29 February
  ‘It’s up to us all to see we get the leaders we need’, Sunday Tribune, 22 April
  ‘We’ve lost one of our best’, Herald, 23 April
  ‘Why we need leadership’, Daily Dispatch, 24 April
  ‘A promising future stolen, New Age, 26 APril
  ‘The ugly truth about banishment’, Daily Dispatch, 22 November
  ‘Skeletons of a discarded past’, Daily Dispatch, 23 November
  ‘A humble man of integrity, Daily Dispatch, 30 November
  ‘Remembering Jakes – Chancellor our Chancellor’, City Press, 2 December
  ‘Banished to our very own gulags’, Sunday Independent, 2 December

• 2020
  ‘The Covid-19 crisis: Our winter of despair could become a spring of hope, Daily Maverick, 12 May 2020
  ‘Can we turn the worst of times into the best: Chance to convert Covis-19 crisis into start of a more equal, just, humane society’, The Mercury, 12 May
  ‘The COVID-19 crisis: From winter of despair to spring of hope?’, UKZN Ndaba Online, Vol. 8, Issue 17, 28 May
  ‘The 4IR super-highway: A dangerously technocratic utopia’, The Daily Maverick, 1 June

• 2021
  (with Vahed, G.) ‘Odyssey of crossing oceans’, Independent on Saturday, 26 June
  ‘South Africa needs a new progressive popular political movement that boldly tackles our festering ills’, Daily Maverick, 29 July

• 2023 Media on published tennis book: The Natal Mercury – 15 March; Lenasia Times, end April; eNCA News – 2 July; BBC World – 3 July; BBC London interview – 4 July; Cape Talk Afternoon Drive radio with John Maytham - 6 July; The Conversation – 7 July; The Guardian, 14 July; The Star – 11 July; Sunday Times – 12 July; Cape Talk radio with Clarence Ford – 12 July; Bookbytes, Salaam Media – 3 September.