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COUNCIL ON HIGHER EDUCATION

COUNCIL ON HIGHER EDUCATION. Public Provider Quality Forum: Accreditation, HEQSF Developments & Implementation 18 March 2013. ACCREDITATION. Quality of submissions Innovative arrangements Conditions not met Complaints Withdrawal of accreditation Illegal provision. HEQSF REVIEW.

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COUNCIL ON HIGHER EDUCATION

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  1. COUNCIL ON HIGHER EDUCATION Public Provider Quality Forum: Accreditation, HEQSF Developments & Implementation 18 March 2013

  2. ACCREDITATION • Quality of submissions • Innovative arrangements • Conditions not met • Complaints • Withdrawal of accreditation • Illegal provision

  3. HEQSF REVIEW • 14 December 2012 – MHET approved QCs gazette individual sub-frameworks • January 2013 CHE CEO issued revised HEQSF – institutions can submit according to either HEQF or HEQSF for accreditation • SAQA proposed gazetting 3 sub-frameworks simultaneously (March / April 2013)

  4. PURPOSE OF HEQSF ALIGNMENT • Bring all HE qualifications onto a single integrated national framework (NQF) • More rungs for HE to occupy – move from 6 to 9 qualification types • Offers a nested approach to qualification design: qualification types / designators / qualifiers etc. • Intended to simplify HE and make it more flexible

  5. QUALIFICATIONS RECEIVED

  6. UNIVERSITIES

  7. COMPREHENSIVES

  8. UOT’S

  9. CESMDISTRIBUTION

  10. ISSUES AND CONCERNS RAISED • Delays in revising and gazetting HEQSF • Doctoral and Diploma programmes • Articulation routes • Professional ‘gaps’ – proposal of exceptions to meet requirements for specific professions • Meetings with Professional Bodies and disciplinary groups to assist • Missing info – Category A

  11. CATEGORY B PROCESS • March – May 2013 institutions prepare offline Category B applications in word format • Institutions will be informed when to submit Category B applications via HEQF-online system, 3 submission dates • August 2013 – October 2013 CHE train subject-matter experts as evaluators to evaluate the Category B submissions • Applications will be evaluated per discipline and qualification type • Processed in an Accreditation-type evaluation and tabled at HEQC for final approval • Outcomes will be communicated to institutions once approved • Anticipated all evaluations and outcomes will be released by end of 2015

  12. CATEGORY B ONLINE PROCESS

  13. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? Professor Monie Naidoo Tamara Bezuidenhout E-mail: heqfonline@che.ac.za URL: http://www.che.ac.za/heqf/

  14. REVISED HEQSF 10 9 8 7 6 5 Prof D Doc Snr Doc Res M/course M Prof M PG Dip Level 8 deg 480 Deg 480 Hons Hons Level 7 deg prof Level 7 360 AD • Dip 360 AC Dip 240 HC

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