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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & TRAINING ENROLMENT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & TRAINING ENROLMENT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009. White Paper: Multiple Lens To View Higher Education Planning. Improved access to higher education, particularly for students from poor and marginalised communities;

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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & TRAINING ENROLMENT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009

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  1. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & TRAININGENROLMENT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009

  2. White Paper: Multiple Lens To View Higher Education Planning • Improved access to higher education, particularly for students from poor and marginalised communities; • Responsiveness of HE to the economic and social development priorities of the country; • Improvement in for high level research and innovation; • Enhanced quality of academic programme provision and the quality of student life; and • Redress of historical inequalities.

  3. NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY GOALS

  4. Actual and Projected Enrolments

  5. Public Investment in HE

  6. CHALLENGES FOR SUCCESS • Low student success rates • Low student throughput rates • Higher staff student ratios • Lower research productivity • Inadequate academic infrastructure – laboratories, lecture theatres, libraries • Inadequate capacity of student residences • Increased demand for financial aid

  7. Higher Education Planning • In 2006, the Ministry concluded the student enrolment and output planning process for the period to 2010. During 2009, a new cycle for the period from 2011 will be concluded • The planning parameters included: • The HE system must contribute to national HRD and research priorities. • Attention must be paid to the need to increase the enrolment and graduate output of scarce and critical skills. • Enrolments must be matched to available resources, physical, human and financial. • Institutions must focus on improving graduation and success rates. • A differentiated approach to enrolment planning must be adopted.

  8. Key Considerations for Enrolment Planning • Capacity of our institutions in terms of infrastructure • Growth in traditional (11), comprehensives (6) and UoTs (6) plus 2 National Higher • Staff : student ratios • Identification of strategic levers to increase access, graduation rates, success rates at all levels of study • Quality • Resourcing requirements of the sector

  9. Higher Education Planning

  10. Strategic Interventions • Investment to increase capacity in scarce and critical skills • Health Sciences • Natural and physical sciences, including plant and animal health • Engineering sciences and the built environment • Teacher education • Improve the quality of teaching, learning and research infrastructure • Renovate, build or modernize lecture theatres, laboratories and libraries • Improving the quality of life of students • Renovating or building student residences.

  11. Strategic Interventions • The focus of the foundation provision grant is to enrich the academic knowledge that is foundational to the achievement of a particular qualification, for which a foundation student has enrolled. • The focus of the teaching development grant is to improve institutional student success rates. Institution, whose actual teaching output totals are less than its normative totals, is allocated teaching development grant, which they must use as per an approved plan.

  12. Strategic Interventions • Amendment and simplification of regulations for registration of private HE institutions • Enhancement of HEMIS • Leverage opportunities of internationalisation of HE • Responding to the HIV and AIDS in HE

  13. Ongoing Strategic Interventions • Reviews of NSFAS; Teaching and Research Development Grants • Second Cycle of System and Institutional Enrolment Planning • Implementation of the HE Qualifications Framework • Establish a National Information and Application Service • Deepening quality through programme evaluation and institutional audits • Increase diversity of post school options

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