News & Announcements

Phase 2 QEP focus area, curriculum, has been finalised. Institutional submissions are due 30 November 2017. For submission requirements click here

The CHE-HELTASA teaching awards committee is calling for applications for the National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. In 2017 these awards are supported by a grant from the Department of Higher Education and Training. Universities are invited to nominate up to three individuals or teaching teams for these prestigious national awards…

The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, has called on communities and all relevant arms of the state to work together and redouble their efforts to track, prosecute and bring to book the small band of arsonists who are destroying the country’s education infrastructure. Read more

  The CHE announces the publication of draft qualification standard statements for the Bachelor Engineering Technology and Advanced Diploma in Engineering for public comment. The expanded CHE mandate includes the development of standards for qualifications in higher education. A qualification standard is a generic statement of the learning…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. Read more

The Council on Higher Education’s Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and assessment in higher education set out to provide higher education institutions with appropriate directives and procedures for the development, application and assessment of the effectiveness of their internal mechanisms in…