News & Announcements

Inside Education March/April 2024 Quarterly Edition
Find the latest Inside Education March/April 2024 Quarterly Edition, the CHE featured on page 21 #Education #HigherEducation Link: https://…
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Communiqué 3 of 2024 - Extension of the concession for programmes accredited for the contact mode of provisioning to continue to be offered through remote online distance and/or blended modes of provisioning, the development of a Higher Education Practice
Find our latest Communiqué 3 of 2024 on the Extension of the concession for programmes accredited for the contact mode of provisioning to continue to…
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Communiqué 2 of 2024 Call for Comments: Draft Bachelor of Education and Postgraduate Certificate in Education Qualification Standards.
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) announces the release of the draft qualification standards for the Bachelor of Education and Postgraduate…
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Your QAF Lunch Hour Workshop Series #2
You are invited to our next workshop series titled "Your QAF Lunch Hour Workshop Series #2" This initiative aims to foster engagement with fellow…
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Publications

Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Public Accountability in Higher Education: a Framework for Analysis of the 'State-Sector' Relationship in a Democratic South Africa

Introduction and outline   In recent years, South African higher education discourse has been marked by various concerns and claims, on the one hand about a putative erosion of academic freedom and…
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Autonomy as a Social Compact

Executive summaryThis report is a preliminary exploration of the potential of a ‘social compact approach’ for building shared understandings of academic freedom, institutional autonomy and…
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Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2006/2007

Foreword   The CHE is an independent statutory body established by the Higher Education Act of 1997. Its mandate areas are:     Advising the Minister of Education on request or pro-actively on…
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The National Policy Framework for Teacher Education and Development in South Africa

Scope and purpose of the policy framework   1. This policy framework for teacher education and development in South Africa is designed to equip a teaching profession to meet the needs of a…
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Review of Higher Education in South Africa

Introduction by the editorsSince the demise of the apartheid order, South African higher education has seen massive changes which have left an indelible imprint on the system, its constituent…
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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 African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Act in 1995.This…
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Frequently Asked Questions on the Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF): Joint FAQs by DoE, SAQA and CHE

The Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF) was published on 5 October 2007 by the Minister of Education (Government Gazette, Volume 508, No 30353).   As an initial communiqué preceding…
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Call for comment: National Qualifications Framework Bill, Higher Education Amendment Bill, and General and Further Education Quality Assurance Amendment Bill

Department of Education   Education notice     Call for comment on the following bills: National Qualifications Framework Bill, 2008: Higher Education Act Amendment Bill, 2008 and General and…
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