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Call for Applications: CHE/HELTASA Teaching Excellence Awards
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…
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Minister Nzimande Calls on South Africans to Work Together to Bring Arsonists to Book
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…
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Call for Public Comment: Draft qualification standard for Engineering qualifications
  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…
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CHE-HELTASA National Excellence awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. Read more
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Latest Publications

Vital Stats Public Higher Education 2010
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Communiqué 1: The Functions of the Council on Higher Education as a Quality Council: Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF)
The designation of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as the Quality Council (QC) for Higher Education by the National Qualifications Framework (…
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Higher Education Monitor 11: Report on the National Review of Academic and Professional Programmes in Education
The National Review of Academic and Professional Programmes in Education constitutes the second process of system-wide accreditation of higher…
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Communiqué No 4: Joint communique on the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework
This communiqué is the fourth of a series that aims to inform the South African higher education community of steps being taken to prepare the higher…
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