Institution of higher education autonomy and public accountability in HIM act?

 Known vague line between institutional autonomy and accountability under the spotlight in South Africa, as the Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande Dr. preparing amendments to the Law on Higher Education in the process that will become public in the new year.
Higher Education Amendment The draft law was submitted to the National Assembly last Friday after being approved by the government.
Calls for the government to intervene in universities' transformation programs appeared more frequently in recent weeks, which have seen an unprecedented student protests across the country.
Although priority is given to these protests the pressing issue of student fees and the availability of higher education, wider concerns about the slow pace of transformation - including institutional culture, language and curriculum reform - still in progress.

Among the conclusions resulting from the Second National Education Summit hosted high on Higher Education and Training Ministry and held in Durban last month, was the need for "trial balance between institutional autonomy of universities and their public responsibilities."
Calls for state intervention
The resolution follows repeated requests for greater state intervention from a group of students and other stakeholders such as higher education network transformation, or HETN, which required ministerial appointments represent 50% of university councils.
A spokesman HETN Hedrick Makin last week confirmed his organization's call for the "eradication" of institutional autonomy, which said University News, has been used by the university "to thwart the process of transformation."
The network also calls for certain institutional statutes be amended to transform becomes a key performance area for the Deputy Rector. The network also wants to see a new way in which they have been appointed deputy rectors, with greater emphasis on the involvement of stakeholders.
Frustrated by the perceived slowness of change, student groups have also expressed their support for more government intervention.
In the concluding remarks of the summit, South African Students' Union representative Taboo Thoth said indicators transformation must be introduced. The previous day, South African Students Congress or SASCO, president Ntuthuko Makhombothi described institutional autonomy as "the elephant in the room".
"It is not enough that the Minister may intervene [in institutions] when the financial problems. He must be able to intervene when the universities fail to transform. Some deliberately refuse to convert, so that will never happen," said the delegates.