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Size and Shape Standing Committee
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The Size and Shape Standing Committee deals with issues of the overall capacity (size in terms of number of institutions, enrolments and participation rate) of the higher education system in relation to the need to develop high level and varied intellectual and conceptual knowledge, abilities and skills to meet the local, regional, national and international requirements of a developing democracy. The Committee also deals with the development of intellectual and conceptual knowledge and skills as well as ongoing development of professionals at different levels, for different economic and social sectors, in different fields and disciplines and through different types and kinds of higher education institutions and educational and pedagogic modes (shape).
Head of the the Standing Committee is Professor SF Coetzee; the other members are Dr F Ginwala, Mr SBA Isaacs, Professor Y Ballim, Professor NC Manganyi, Ms L Abrahams and Dr Lange.
The Committee's activities have included providing background work to enable the CHE to advise on:
- The proposals of the National Working Group, established in March 2001 by the Minister of Education to 'investigate and advise him on appropriate arrangements for consolidating the provision of HE on a regional basis through establishing new institutional and organisational forms, including the feasibility of reducing the number of HE institutions';
- The Ministry of Education's criteria for the determination of the programme profiles of public higher education institutions; and
- The Ministry of Education's proposals for the institutional restructuring of higher education.
The current work of the Committee focuses on issues of system differentiation.
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