what is missing is a systemwide long term publicprivate partnership to improve access and success in education the university of the free state is a broadbased university which recently under the leadership of vice chancellor jonathan jansen has embarked on a road of institutional transformation to become a worldclass engaged university of excellence and innovation and an equitable diverse nonracial 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 careerfocused education and training mandate into applied rd it aims to become an engaged university that focuses on producing quality social and technological innovations in socioeconomic developments primarily in the central region of south africa see box