News & Announcements

CHE Quality Fora - Public & Private Higher Education Institutions & Professional Bodies
The aim of the Quality Fora is to provide a platform at which professionals engage each other on good practices pertaining to student engagement in…
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CHE Statement on the racially motivated attack on a Black student which occurred at Stellenbosch University
CHE Statement on the racially motivated attack on a Black student which occurred at Stellenbosch University. Access the full statement below: …
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BrieflySpeaking N0. 20 The ‘Academic Precariat’: postdoctoral fellows in South African higher education
The latest BrieflySpeaking No. 20 titled - The ‘Academic Precariat’: postdoctoral fellows in South African higher education, is available for…
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Communiqué 3 of 2022 - Standards Development through Communities of Practice (CoPs) for the implementation of the QAF in 2024
Kindly see attached Communiqué 3 of 2022 - Standards Development through Communities of Practice (CoPs) for the implementation of the QAF in 2024…
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News & Announcements

Call for Public Comment: Draft qualification standard for Engineering qualifications
  The CHE announces the publication of draft qualification standard statements for the Bachelor Engineering Technology and Advanced Diploma in Engineering 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…
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CHE-HELTASA National Excellence awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. Read more
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The Council on Higher Education’s Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
The Council on Higher Education’s Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and assessment in higher education set out to provide higher education institutions with appropriate directives and procedures for the development, application and assessment of the effectiveness of their internal mechanisms in…
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Teaching and Learning’ in South African Higher Education Reviewed
The Council on Higher Education and the University of Johannesburg Postgraduate School invite you to a panel discussion on Teaching and Learning: The panel discussion will be based on Chapter Four 'Teaching and Learning' of the South African higher education reviewed: Two decades of democracy book. WHEN : 11 October 2016, 12:00 -13:30 VENUE :…
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CHE submission to the Presidential Commission
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) appreciates the opportunity to make a submission to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training (the Commission) on the onerous task of assessing the feasibility of fee-free higher education in South Africa. Submission & presentation below:  Presentation to the…
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THE 8TH ICQAHEA 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT
THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA (ICQAHEA) IN NAMIBIA.   SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT. SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2016.  Dear Colleagues and Friends in Higher Education, We are pleased to make the second announcement of the 8th International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa (…
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