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The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body responsible for advising the Minister of Education on all matters related to higher education policy issues, and for quality assurance in higher education and training.

 ANNOUNCEMENT
First learner records loaded into the Higher Education Quality Committee Information System (HEQCIS)

The first learner records, from a private higher education institution, Christ Baptist Church Seminary, were loaded into the HEQCIS database on Friday the 10th April 2009. This means that the HEQCIS system, which will collect information about enrolments and qualifications awarded at private higher education institutions is now fully operational.

The HEQCIS system has been developed by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), in conjunction with Praxis Computing, on behalf of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). When it is fully populated, the HEQCIS system will provide the CHE with accurate information about the learners enrolled in private higher education institutions and the qualifications awarded. For institutions, the benefits of contributing to the system are that qualification achievements will be added to the National Learners' Records Database (NLRD) at SAQA and their students will be able to have their qualifications independently verified.

Kirstin Barth, project manager at Praxis Computing said that during the first successful load, 77 learner records and 77 qualification enrolment/achievement records were created. Chris Wren, the Seminary Administrator, at Christ Baptist Church Seminary worked closely with the HEQCIS team over a period of four months to prepare their data submission.

HEQCIS manager, Phuti Semenya says that to date 24 institutions have completed the qualification template which has to be verified before learner records can be loaded and 10 institutions have been invited to load learner data. For more information about the HEQCIS system, e-mail heqcis@che.ac.za or visit the HEQCIS section of our website www.che.ac.za/heqcisinfo/.

 CHE HIGHLIGHTS
Joint communiqués by the Council on Higher Education (CHE), the Department of Education (DoE) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) on the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework
This series of communiques is intended to inform the South African higher education community of the steps being taken to prepare the higher education system for the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF).


HEQC Directorate: Accreditation - Guidelines on writing improvement plans
As part of its programme re-accreditation process, the HEQC may require institutions to submit improvement plans related to conditions set in respect of programmes evaluated. This document sets out the HEQC’s expectations and requirements in relation to such plans.

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