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This communiqué is the second of a series to inform the South African higher education community of the steps being taken to prepare the higher education system for the implementation of the Higher…

Introduction
The Higher Education Act (Act No 101 of 1997) assigns executive responsibility for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa to the Council on Higher Education (CHE). The…

Introduction
This communiqué is the third of a series that aims to inform the South African higher education community of steps being taken to prepare the higher education system for the full…

Towards a Framework for Quality Promotion and Capacity Development in South African Higher Education
Foreword
The Higher Education Act of 1997 assigns responsibility for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa to the Council on Higher Education (CHE). This responsibility is…

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…

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…

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…

I, Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, Minister of Education, hereby publish The Higher Education Qualifications Framework: Draft for Discussion, as set out in the Schedule, for comment in terms of section…