What is missing is a system-wide long term public-private partnership to improve access and success in education. The University of the Free State is a broad-based university which recently under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Jonathan Jansen has embarked on a road of institutional transformation “to become a world-class, engaged university of excellence and innovation”, and “an equitable, diverse, non-racial, nonsexist, multicultural, multilingual university where everyone will experience a sense of belonging and achievement”. The Central University of Technology has under the leadership of Thandwa Mthembu undergone a thorough institutional transformation which has involved extending its career-focused education and training mandate into applied R&D. It aims to become an “engaged university that focuses on producing quality social and technological innovations in socio-economic developments, primarily in the Central region of South Africa” (see Box 2.1.).