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CHE Statement on Disruptions at Universities
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) has observed with deepening concern, the descent of student protests at some of our universities into wanton acts of violence, student intimidation and the destruction of…
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Call for papers: CHE Colloquium: Higher education funding challenges
Universities have recently been unsettled by student protests that have highlighted the funding challenges facing the higher education sector in its entirety. In response to this, the CHE is organising a…
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Statement on the Wave of Student Protests on Fees
The CHE welcomes the outcome of the engagement between the President and all stakeholders to resolve this issue......   Statement on the Wave of Student Protests on Fees
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Call for QEP peer reviewers
Applications are invited for QEP peer reviewers to provide individual feedback to institutions in 2016. Closing date is 28 October and training is on 30 November and 1 December. ............     Call…
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Latest Publications

Case studies on dealing with "pipeline students" within their respective institutions
IntroductionIn 2005, the HEQC requested a number of people from different merger contexts to produce case studies on dealing with so-called "pipeline…
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Enhancing the Efficacy and Efficiency of the National Qualifications Framework
IntroductionThis is the first formal statement of government's policy on the implementation of the NQF since the historic passage of the South…
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External (and Internal) Tensions? Conceptualising Public Accountability in South African Higher Education
IntroductionAn enquiry into the public accountability of higher education institutions in South Africa (or, indeed, in any society), requires us to…
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Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Corporatised University in Contemporary South Africa
IntroductionThere can be no better time for the Council on Higher Education (CHE) to investigate whether institutional autonomy and academic freedom…
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