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Editorial Policy: South African Journal of Higher Education

Articles in English or Afrikaans are invited for consideration provided that they have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere. Each article should be accompanied by an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate sheet. Articles in Afri­kaans must have a summary of 500 words in English preceding the Introduc­tion, and the Conclu­sion must be repeated in English at the end of the article. The South African Journal of Higher Edu­cation publishes original contributions within any field of high­er edu­cation. The Journal follows a policy of blind peer review and accepts submis­sions only from Journal subscribers or members of the South African Association of Research and Development in Higher Educa­tion. Criteria for acceptance include an approach which is analy­tical or descriptive, the incorporation of cross-national com­parisons and evidence of wide generalisability. The intrinsic interest, conciseness and clarity of submissions are also impor­tant considerations, as are the absence of technical jargon and the fact that findings are intelligible to the non-expert reader.

The Editors reserve the right to place con­tributions in the sec­tion they deem suitable and, to reject sub­missions without divul­ging the reason(s) for doing so. No copies of the manu­script or other materials will be returned. A compli­mentary copy of the relevant issue will be posted to each of the authors whose names ap­pear under the titles of contribu­tions. Two additional copies of the specific issue may be pur­chased at R20.00 each. No honora­rium is paid to authors. Page fees will be charged

Manuscript Submission:

Manuscripts that do not conform to the requirements listed below will not be considered for publication.

Three high quality copies of the manuscript accompanied by an IBM PC Compatible DS/DD diskette with the data contained in WordPer­fect and a non refundable handling fee of R50.00 (made out to the SAJHE) should be sent to Philip Higgs, Editor-in-Chief, South African Journal of Higher Education, University of South Africa, P O Box 392, Preto­ria, 0003, Republic of South Africa. The above should also be accom­panied by a declaration that the manuscript has been properly edited for language usage together with the name and address of the person who undertook the language edit­ing. Manu­scripts should be printed on one side of the paper only, double spaced, with a left margin of at least 3 cm. Copies must not be jus­tified on the right-hand side of the page.

Articles may not exceed 5000 words in length, including the Bib­liography, summary and any graphic material.

Headings in bold print and capitals, should be placed to the left margin; sub-head­ings must be under­lined.

Quotations of up to 100 words should form part of the normal flow of the text and must be enclosed in single inverted commas. A quotation within a quotation should be indicated by means of double inverted commas. Quotations of more than 100 words must be blocked and indented five spaces. No italics or quotation marks are to be used unless the piece quoted contains quotation marks or italics. Tables, illustrations and figures must each be placed on a separate sheet, and must not be included in the text. They will not be redrawn, and should therefore be presented as a set of artwork in finished form. The editors reserve the right to refuse publication of any submission in which the artwork is not of an acceptable standard

A separate page should carry the title of the article, its au­thor(s), and relevant biographi­cal information. The first page of the text proper should carry the title of the contribution, but not the name(s) of the author(s).

References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the article using the following standard form:

Books

Smith, R J & Van der Merwe, N J 1960.  Themes in higher educa­tion. London: Benton.

Towards a philosophy of higher education. 1985. Edit­ed by Smith, R J. London: Benton.

Chapters in books

Smith, R J  1981. Comparative themes in higher educa­tion, in Trends in higher education, edited by Green, J N. London: Benton.

Journal articles

Smith, R J  1990.  Policy studies in higher education. The South African Journal of Higher Education, 3(2):51-59.

Theses and dissertations

Smith, R J 1984. Critical theory and university transformation. D.Phil.thesis, University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Newspaper articles

Rand Daily Mail. 1980. 25 June:7.

Website references

Norwood, G 1999. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. (http://www.connect.net/georgen/maslow.html). 1999. May.