News & Announcements

Welcome to the sixth issue of VitalStats: Public Higher Education, a series that was launched in 2012 withVitalStats 2010. The series provides recent, audited data on the higher education sector for research andmonitoring purposes in an easy to use format. VitalStats 2015 contains data for the period 2010 to 2015, whichis the latest audited data…

New Publication: Higher Education Monitor 14: Learning to Teach in Higher Education in South Africa. The Higher Education Monitor series, as was elaborated in the first issue in 2003, “aims to stimulate research andthe production of knowledge and interpretive frameworks that could contribute to better theorisation of highereducation, more…

On the 11th April 2017, Monash South Africa hosted a talk titled “Internationalisation of Africa” where they hosted Mr Tony Blair former Prime Minister of Great Britain. Professor Narend Baijnath, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Council on Higher Education and Professor Olive Shisana former CEO of Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)…

Phase 2 QEP focus area, curriculum, has been finalised. Institutional submissions are due 30 November 2017. For submission requirements click here

The CHE-HELTASA teaching awards committee is calling for applications for the National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. In 2017 these awards are supported by a grant from the Department of Higher Education and Training. Universities are invited to nominate up to three individuals or teaching teams for these prestigious national awards…

The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, has called on communities and all relevant arms of the state to work together and redouble their efforts to track, prosecute and bring to book the small band of arsonists who are destroying the country’s education infrastructure. Read more