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Council on Higher Education: Annual Report 2009-2010. Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training. 19 October 2010. Functions. Advise Minister on any aspect of higher education.
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Council on Higher Education: Annual Report 2009-2010 Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training 19 October 2010
Functions • Advise Minister on any aspect of higher education. • Quality Assurance – auditing of institutional QA mechanisms; programme accreditation; promoting QA. • Qualifications framework – development and management of HEQF; standards setting, including naming conventions for qualifications; maintenance of learner database. • Publish information/reports on developments in, and the state of, higher education: monitoring function.
Advice and Monitoring • Advice: • Response to the Report of the MCHET. • Use of the term “University” by HE providers. • Monitoring: • State of Higher Education • Research projects: • Student Engagement and Success – 13 636 students at 7 institutions. • Effectiveness of the LLB. • Challenge: Lack of systemic monitoring, in particular, policy impact studies.
Areas of Future Work • Review of undergraduate curriculum: four-year degree. • FET-HE interface. • Changing nature of the academic profession/next generation of academics. • Governance – Institutional Forums; SRCs; rural institutions and landownership. • Benchmark tests and the NSC.
Institutional Audits • First cycle – 2005/11: • Focus on institutional QA policies, procedures and systems; 2 conducted – UJ & Unizul; 7 improvement plans submitted. • Second cycle – pilot in 2012: • Focus on teaching and learning - conceptual assumptions and their translation into practice at the level of curriculum and educational processes. • Challenge: QA not used as steering tool to complement planning and funding.
Programme Accreditation • Accreditation of new programmes – 254 assessed in 2009/10 and 250 private provider programmes evaluated for re-accreditation. • Alignment of existing programmes with HEQF – implementation plan being finalised; time-frame 2011-2013. • Self-accreditation framework to be developed and finalised in 2011. • National reviews – re-accreditation of programmes in particular disciplines; high impact on quality improvement and contributes to standards setting.
Qualifications Framework • Review of HEQF to address inconsistencies and gaps re: UoTs and professional councils. • Time-frame: • Written submissions: end of November 2010. • CHE response and proposals: end of February 2011. • Consultations: March-April 2011. • Recommendations to Minister: May 2011. • Policy implications re: differentiation and academic integrity of qualifications. • Review of degree structure. • Standards setting: Finalising of framework for consultation and implementation in 2011 (3-4 years).
Expenditure 2009/10 2010 R Administration expenses 7, 114, 169 Auditors remuneration 745, 015 Consulting Fees 5, 350, 273 Remuneration-non-executive council members 648, 860 Employee costs 15, 919, 967 Renovation and relocation 2, 705, 194 Travel and subsistence 2, 071, 840 Venue and catering688, 543 34, 045, 199