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Year of publication: 2009 Accreditation Evaluators’ Guide CHE document Communiqué No 3: Council on Higher Education (CHE), Department of Higher Education and Training (DoET) and South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) CHE document Offline Application: New / Additional Site of Delivery or Extension of Programme Offering CHE document Year of publication: 2008 Communiqué No 1: Joint communiqué on the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework CHE document Communiqué No 2: Joint communiqué on the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework CHE document Guidelines for programme re-accreditation CHE document Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) self-review report CHE document Nominations for Higher Education Quality Committee Board CHE document Site Visit - Preparation Manual for Institutions CHE document Site visit manual for evaluator panels CHE document Year of publication: 2007 Case studies on dealing with "pipeline students" within their respective institutions CHE document - Nthabiseng Ogude, Engela van Staden, Chandru Kistan, Rhonda Hawkins, Nigel Bond, Geoff Scott, Rosalie Finlayson, Malcolm Wallis Year of publication: 2006 Community Engagement in Higher Education - Proceedings of the Conference hosted by the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education and the Community – Higher Education – Service Partnerships Initiative of JET Education Services CHE document Year of publication: 2004 First Bibliography on the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and Higher Education CHE document Higher Education and Social Transformation - South Africa Case Study CHE document - Dr Thiven Reddy Policy Advice Report: Advice to the Minister of Education on Aspects of Distance Education Provision in South African Higher Education CHE document Report on the Colloquium on 10 years of Democracy and Higher Education Change CHE document - Erica Gillard Report on the consultative HEQC meeting on MoUs CHE document Year of publication: 2003 Council on Higher Education Comment and Advice to the Minister of Education on the NQF Consultative Document: An Interdependent National Qualifications Framework System CHE document MBA Re-accreditation Manual CHE document Proposed criteria for the HEQC's first cycle of audits: 2004-2009 CHE document Year of publication: 2002 HEQC: Programme Accreditation Framework CHE document HEQC: Programme Audit Framework CHE document Year of publication: 2001 A framework for improving teaching and learning project CHE document Year of publication: 2000 Policy Report: Towards a New Higher Education Landscape: Meeting the Equity, Quality and Social Development Imperatives of South Africa in the Twenty-first Century CHE document