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There were 81 (5.6%) theses, which could not identify the sector in where the postgraduate theses were conducted, and these were recorded as nil. Some of the sectors were not reported as they are numerically insignificant as the year by year break down showed there were no theses within those sectors.
SECTORAL ANALYSIS OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PRODUCTION IN GAUTENG REGION
The authors used the categories in the NRF report (Guimond, 2006). However, the researchers identified sectors not documented in the aforementioned report which shall be discuss later in this study. Table 5 shows the distribution of the educational sector per university in the Gauteng region. The analysis of the education postgraduate data shows that schooling has been the main focus of research in all four Gauteng universities. Johannesburg University has the highest number of theses in schooling followed by Wits and Pretoria respectively. Even though, Tshwane University has not produced many theses, but their main focus has also been on schooling. Tertiary and Adult Basic Education Training (ABET) followed schooling with high number of theses respectively. There has been researching focus on government and mixed (research across educational sectors) research respectively, with early childhood education as the least being researched.
Table 5: Disaggregation of theses on the Gauteng region per institution by sectors
Sector ABET
Civil Society Continuing Ed ECE
Government Mixed Nil
Parastatal
Post Secondary Private Sector Schooling
Service Provider Tertiary
UP
10 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 2
134 5
63 Wits
17 4
10 6
19 11 38 1 2 6
185 13 56
TUT
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
15 0 3
UJ
19 1
10 2 5
10 40 0
12 7
463 2
33 Contextual Dimension of Knowledge Generation in Educational Research: Case of South Africa Universities 87 Total