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The foreword explains the Council on Higher Education’s mission to initiate discourse on contemporary higher education issues and frames the collection as analysis shaped by an international 2014 conference and subsequent workshops. Themes include academic freedom, student protest, constitutionalism, liberty and violence, and the changing role of knowledge, inviting further debate and reader contributions.","Constituting Higher Education  \nKagisano  \nApril 2017  \nThe CHE is an independent statutory body established by the Higher Education Act, no. 101 of 1997. The CHE is the Quality Council for Higher Education, advises the Minister of Higher Education and Training on all higher education issues and is responsible for the quality assurance and promotion through the Higher Education Quality Committee.  \nPublished by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in 2017  \n1 Quintin Brand Street Persequor Technopark  \nBrummeria Pretoria  \nSouth Africa +27 12 349 3840 [www.che.ac.za](www.che.ac.za)  \n© Council on Higher Education, Pretoria, 2017  \nAll rights reserved. Material from this publication may not be reproduced without the CHE’s permission.  \nISBN: 978-0-9947111-1-3  \nContents  \nForeword ................................................................................... 1  \nEditorial: ‘Constituting Higher Education’....................................5  \nJohn Higgins  \nUniversities and Constitutions: What does research-based  \nknowledge and higher education mean for constitutional democracies? ................................................................................9  \nEdwin Cameron  \nIvory Towers, Slot Machines or Pathfinders? Universities and the  \nCase for Executive Leadership...................................................... 17  \nDr Ihron Rensburg  \nAcademic freedom and education in a human rights perspective –  \nexperiences from Norway ............................................................ 51  \nHenriette Sinding Aasen  \nBreaking the bond between knowledge and democracy?..........81  \nTor Halvorsen  \nThe precarious politics of presupposed equality in South African  \nhigher education ....................................................................... 119  \nJaco Barnard-Naudé  \n‘Academic Freedom, Affirmation and Violence’: A dialogue with  \nAdam Habib............................................................................... 161  \nJohn Higgins (JH)  \nAdam Habib (AH)  \nThe Kagisano Series................................................................ 200  \nForeword  \nAmong the four key functions of the CHE which define its mission and direct its activities is, “to initiate critical discourse on contemporary higher education issues.” The Kagisano series was initiated in 2001 as one of a range of CHE publications. It was conceptualised as a Higher Education Discussion Series, with the purpose of stimulating discussion and debate around important issues related to the development of higher education. This issue, “Constituting Higher Education”, continues in this vein, assembling as it does the views of a number of contributors on the important theme of understanding universities in relation to the provisions, rights and protections of national constitutions, with specific reference to two quite different countries with similar constitutional framings i.e. Norway and South Africa.1  \nThe contributions grew from an international conference held in South Africa in 2014, Universities and Constitutions: What does research-based knowledge and higher education mean for constitutional democracies?, which was jointly funded by the University of Bergen, the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS) and the Postgraduate Centre for Research and Innovation at the University of Johannesburg. The papers from the conference that appear in this journal were developed further at subsequent workshops at JIAS, UCT and the Global  \n1 The views contained in Kagisano are those of the authors/contributors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the CHE.  \nInstitute at the University of Bergen, and these are supplemented by a number of related contributions.  \nComing as it does at a time when higher education in South Africa is arguably facing its most obdurate challenges yet, with the current fees crisis leading to deep questions about the purpose and aims of higher education and its uncertain future path, this publicatio","cbCaibGNDYT7L0ru","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibGNDYT7L0ru","pdf",6300071,16,208,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n## Editorial: ‘Constituting Higher Education’\n## Universities and Constitutions: What does research-based knowledge and higher education mean for constitutional democracies?\n## Ivory Towers, Slot Machines or Pathfinders? 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