News & Announcements

CHE SPECIAL EDITION: A PRIVILEGE TO BE CALLED UPON, SAYS A CHE PIONEER
In this Special Edition, Professor Mala Singh who has served with the CHE for 25 years shared a poignant account of how the CHE was formed.  Click…
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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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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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