Welcome to the Higher Education Quality Committee Information System (HEQCIS)

This portal will give you basic information on the HEQCIS as it applies to private providers of higher education accredited by the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). One of the responsibilities of the HEQC is to collect data on student achievement from its accredited providers in the format prescribed by the HEQC, in consultation with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). The HEQC then submits this data to SAQA for inclusion in the National Learners' Records Database (NLRD). The HEQCIS is therefore a system that has been created by the HEQC for the purpose of collecting such data from its accredited private providers. The data from public providers does not form part of the HEQCIS as it is submitted directly by the Department of Education (DoE) to SAQA after it has been received from public providers and processed by the DoE's Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS). HEQCIS can be accessed directly at the following URL: www.che.ac.za/heqcisinfo. The HEQCIS Manager will be available to answer any questions about the HEQCIS. Please feel free to send an email to or call 012 431 5036 if you are experiencing any problems.

CHE Edu.Dex License Application
	Application for a license to use the Edu.Dex data validation software application Please complete the license application in full and submit the completed form to: By mail: HEQCIS Manager c/o NLRD SAQA Postnet Suite 248 Private Bag X06 Waterkloof 0145 Hand deliveries: HEQCIS Manager c/o NLRD SAQA House 1067 Arcadia Street Hatfield 0083 CHE Edu.Dex License Application (71Kb < 1min)

Edu.Dex Level 3 Standard ETQA File Specification (version 2) - Submission to Standard ETQA from Training Provider

This file specification adheres to the following overall Edu.Dex design objective: The implementation of the Edu.Dex data validation utility and the Edu.Dex data standards must ensure that data that is shared by any of the data collection tiers within the South African Education and Training sector conforms to the data standards as defined by the NLRD Load Specifications. Edu.Dex Level 3 Standard ETQA File Specification (version 2) - Submission to Standard ETQA from Training Provider (249Kb ~ 1 min)

Template and supporting documentation used to register qualifications on the HEQCIS

Information on using the HEQCIS Qualification Template: HEQCISQualificationTemplate.Info.010.pdf (21Kb < 1min) HEQCIS Qualification Template: HEQCISQualificationTemplate.010.xls (215Kb ~ 1 min) This template (HEQCISQualificationTemplate.nnn.xls where nnn indicates the version number of the template) has two discrete functionalities: The "Qualification data" worksheet This is the area of the spreadsheet that you use to capture the specific details of your qualification, and where applicable the courses/unit standards that form part of the qualification. The "Data Checks" worksheet This is the area of spreadsheet that allows you to see whether the data that you have entered in the "Qualification data" area of the spreadsheet conforms to the expected rules for the template. A list containing the description for each Subdomain ID is available in: List of Subdomains.010.xls (57Kb < 1min)

Presentations

18 April 2008: Recap of Workshop 1 (364Kb ~ 2 min) Yvonne Shapiro, Director: NLRD, SAQA HEQCIS Briefing and Demonstration (technical) (879Kb ~ 5 min) Kirstin Barth, Praxis Computing HEQCIS Communication and Liaison (327Kb ~ 2 min) Phuti Semenya, HEQCIS Manager

11 April 2008: Information Management, Qualifications Frameworks and SA National Imperatives (243Kb ~ 1 min) Theo Bhengu, Deputy Executive Director, HEQC The HEQC and the NLRD: Putting Everything Together (423Kb ~ 2 min) Yvonne Shapiro, Director: NLRD, SAQA HEQCIS Briefing and Demonstration (850Kb ~ 5 min) Kirstin Barth, Praxis Computing HEQCIS Resources and Contact Details (328Kb ~ 2 min) Phuti Semenya, HEQCIS Manager