Scarcity is changing the transformation debate
A foreign professor may supervise South African scholars, develop research capacity and connect colleagues and students to international academic networks.
The price of that caution may only show up much later, when the expertise not recruited today becomes missing supervision, weaker research capacity or academic networks that were never built.
Professor Joseph Sekhampu, chief director of the NWU Business School, asks a more consequential question: what academic capability will today’s appointment decisions leave to the next generation?
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