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GAUTENG YEAR BY YEAR REPORT: FROM 1995-1999 & 2000-2004 PERIODS
The analysis of year by year theses production provides a clear picture of progress for each institution over a ten year period. The data (cf. Figure 2) shows that UJ is the only institution that has been generally productive and has actively increased the production of their theses from the first six years as compared with other institutions. It is noted that TUT and UW produced a high number of theses between 2002 and 2003, however UJ continued to produce higher number of theses than the former two institutions (cf. Figure 2). UP data shows a decrease in research output from the second year to the last year of the study, when compared with the 1995 theses production.
111 100 86
20 40 60 80
0 80 76 65 59 53 4341 47 41 36 34 31 29 32 27 35 2725 7 0 1995 0 0 1996 1997 0 1 1 0 36 50 23 9 4 4 26 14 5 22 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 NK Year by year distribution of theses in HEIS Figure 2: Gauteng theses on database produced year by year
When the data was divided over the first and second halves of the research period, the former half appears to be more productive than the latter half. The overall number of theses in the first and second half is 773 and 640 respectively. While, the number of theses decreased for three institutions in the second half of the research period, TUT increased the number of theses they produced (cf. Table 1).
Table 1: Gauteng theses on database produced in the periods 1995-1999 &2000-2004 Periods
UP Wits TUT
*NK - Not Known Contextual Dimension of Knowledge Generation in Educational Research: Case of South Africa Universities 83 1995 - 1999