Draft:Council on Higher Education
The Council on Higher Education in South Africa is an independent statutory body that functions as the Quality Council for Higher Education education in South Africa.[1] . It functions as the Quality Council for Higher Education in terms of the NQF Act (68 of 2008) . The council has a permanent committee, the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC).[2] That is tasked with performing both quality assurance and quality promotion in Higher Education (CHE).[3] The council is located in Pretoria, in an office park, adjacent to the CSIR.
History
[edit]The CHE was established in May 1998 in terms of the Higher Education Act (101 of 1997), as amended . Higher education then, was seen as key to modernisation, transformation and renewal in South Africa .
Structure
[edit]Critique
[edit]The CHE have been criticized for creating regulations that “protect an elite set of increasingly commercialised institutions, public and private.” [4]
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