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About the CHE > Introduction |
The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) was established as an independent statutory body in May 1998 in terms of the Higher Education Act, No 101 of 1997. The Higher Education Act and the Education White Paper 3 of 1997, A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education, establish the responsibilities of the CHE as advising the Minister of Education on all matters related to higher education policy issues and assuming executive responsibility for quality assurance within higher education and training.
The vision of the CHE is a transformed, equitable, high quality, economically and socially
responsive, productive and sustainable higher education system in a transformed, equitable, just,
humane and democratic South Africa based on the principles and values of non-racialism, nonsexism,
freedom of expression and other basic human and social rights.
The CHE defines its mission as contributing to the development of a higher education system
characterised by quality and excellence, equity, responsiveness to economic and social development
needs, and effective and effi cient provision, governance and management. It seeks to make this
contribution
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By providing informed, considered, independent and strategic advice on higher education
(HE) policy issues to the Minister of Education
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Through the quality assurance activities of its sub-committee, the Higher Education Quality
Committee (HEQC)
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Through publications and through broader dissemination of information, and through
conferences and workshops on HE and other focused activities.
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