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Call for applications - CHE/HELTASA Teaching Awards
The Council on Higher Education (CHE), in partnership with the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) is pleased to call on universities to nominate candidates for the…
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2013 Higher Education Data: Participation
    Who are those who participate in Higher Education? The participation profile in the South African higher education system has changed drastically over the last 20 years, in terms of race…
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CHE Statement on Disruptions at Universities
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) has observed with deepening concern, the descent of student protests at some of our universities into wanton acts of violence, student intimidation and the destruction of…
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Call for papers: CHE Colloquium: Higher education funding challenges
Universities have recently been unsettled by student protests that have highlighted the funding challenges facing the higher education sector in its entirety. In response to this, the CHE is organising a…
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Latest Publications

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…
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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…
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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…
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Case studies on dealing with "pipeline students" within their respective institutions
IntroductionIn 2005, the HEQC requested a number of people from different merger contexts to produce case studies on dealing with so-called "pipeline…
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