The book provides a thorough overview of Institutional Research (IR) ? i.e. applied higher education research undertaken within universities ? in South Africa.

The relationship between research, on the one hand, and policy/practice on the other hand, is complicated and collaboration between scholars in research on high

This book examines the relevant roles, skills and knowledge needed to build the institutional research capacity across the higher education sector globally. The

Higher Education in South Africa should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside of South Africa, as well as within, for the general