News & Announcements

SPECIAL EDITION: THE CHE SHOULD NOT ONLY SURVIVE, IT MUST SUCCEED.
Professor Themba Mosia served in the CHE Council from 15 July 2013 to 14 July 2022 as the Council Chairperson. In this feature article, he shares…
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Second Announcement: CHE Higher Education Conference 01 to 03 March 2023
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) is pleased to release a second announcement of the 2023 Higher Education Conference scheduled to take place…
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Communiqué 10 of 2022 Alignment of legacy nursing qualifications to the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF)
Click here to access and download: Communique 10 of 2022_Articulation of Nursing Qualifications_120922.pdf
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Special tribute: Celebrating outgoing council members of the transformative organisation that is the CHE
Special tribute: Celebrating outgoing council members of the transformative organisation that is the CHE Click here to download the full article: …
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News & Announcements

UKZN Hosts CHE Institutional Audit Workshop
Article source: UKZN Ndaba  UKZN’s University Teaching and Learning Portfolio hosted the Council on Higher Education’s (CHE) workshop on Institutional Audits as Reflexive Praxis (IARP) on 1 March 2022 with virtual and in-person attendees. The workshop was designed to assist the University to finalise its Institutional Self- Evaluation Report (…
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Call for Nominations
Call for Nomination of Members of the Institutional Audits Committee (IAC), a sub-committee of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) The Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body established by the Higher Education Act, No. 101 of 1997, as amended. It is also governed by…
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Public Announcement - Bachelor of Pharmacy
The CHE announces the publication of draft qualification standard statement for the Bachelor of Pharmacy 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 domains, the level of achievement and the graduate…
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Staff Experience of, and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and its Future Survey Report (SEP-TLF)
The Council on Higher Education (CHE), Universities South Africa (USAf), and the University of the Free State (UFS) initiated the Staff Experience of and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and its Future (SEP-TLF) survey. Informed by academic staff development perspectives and pragmatically developed in consultation with the sector, the SEP-TLF…
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Briefly Speaking Number 18 Problematising student feedback to incorporate the ethics and rigour of academic research
Student feedback is increasingly being collected and analysed as a mechanism for assuring the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. However, there are other critical decisions that institutions make based on student feedback, including decisions on rewarding and/or sanctioning academics. This Briefly Speaking piece argues that,…
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Call for Nominations
Nomination for Membership of the Accreditation Committee (AC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) The Accreditation Committee (AC) is a sub-committee of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), which is established to assist the HEQC in the performance of its quality assurance functions, specifically, its programme accreditation…
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