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Year of publication: 2010 Community Engagement in South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-74-2 Year of publication: 2009 Council on Higher Education: Annual Report 2008-2009 CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-72-8 Higher Education Monitor: Postgraduate studies in South Africa – a statistical profile CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-71-1 Postgraduate Studies in South Africa: A Statistical Profile CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-70-4 Report of the Council on Higher Education’s Consultative Conference, 2009 CHE publication The response of the Council on Higher Education to the report of the Ministerial Committee on Transformation and Social Cohesion and the Elimination of Discrimination in Public Higher Education Institutions CHE publication The State of Higher Education Report: Higher Education Monitor 8 CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-73-5 Year of publication: 2008 Council on Higher Education Annual Report: 2007 - 2008 CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-68-1 HEQC Framework for Delegated Functions CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-69-8 Report of the independent task team on Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom (HEIAAF): Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Public Accountability in South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-67-4 Service-Learning in the Disciplines: Lessons from the Field CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919856-66-7 Year of publication: 2007 Autonomy as a Social Compact CHE publication - André du Toit - ISBN: 1-919856-58-7 Council on Higher Education Annual Report: 2006 - 2007 CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919586-63-6 HEQC Evaluative Study of Institutional Audits 2006 CHE publication - Sharman Wickham, Gonda Coetzee, Barbara Jones, Anthea Metcalfe HEQC Institutional Audits Manual 2007 CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919586-58-7 Higher Education Monitor: A Case for Improving Teaching and Learning in South African Higher Education CHE publication - Ian Scott, Nan Yeld, Jane Hendry - ISBN: 978-1-919586-62-9 Review of Higher Education in South Africa CHE publication - ISBN: 978-1-919586-61-2 Year of publication: 2006 A Good Practice Guide and Self-evaluation Instruments for Managing the Quality of Service-Learning CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-56-0 Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Public Accountability in Higher Education: a Framework for Analysis of the 'State-Sector' Relationship in a Democratic South Africa CHE publication - Ruth Jonathan Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Corporatised University in Contemporary South Africa CHE publication - Kristina Bentley, Adam Habib, Seán Morrow - ISBN: 1-919586-60-9 CHE Annual Report: 2005 - 2006 CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-55-2 Eternal (and Internal) Tensions? Conceptualising Public Accountability in South African Higher Education CHE publication - Steven Friedman, Omano Edigheji - ISBN: 1-919856-59-5 Higher Education Monitor: ICTs and the South African Higher Education Landscape CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-55-2 Higher Education Monitor: The impact of changing funding sources of Higher Education Institutions in South Africa CHE publication - Gert Steyn, Pierre de Villiers - ISBN: 1-919586-50-1 Kagisano Issue Number 4: Ten years of Higher Education under Democracy CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-52-8 Kagisano Issue Number 5: Universities of technology CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-53-6 Service-Learning in the Curriculum: A Resource for Higher Education Institutions CHE publication - C J Gerda Bender, Priscilla Daniels, Josef Lazarus, Luzelle Naude, Kalawathie Sattar - ISBN: 1-919586-57-9 Year of publication: 2005 A Good Practice Guide for Quality Management of Research CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-47-1 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2004/2005 CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-49-8 Higher Education Monitor: South African Higher Education Responses to Students with Disabilities CHE publication - Colleen Howell - ISBN: 1-919586-48-X Towards a Framework for Quality Promotion and Capacity Development in South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-51-X Year of publication: 2004 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2003/2004 CHE publication Considerations on the Designation and Nomenclature of Higher Education Institutions CHE publication - Erica Gillard - ISBN: 1-919586-47-1 Criteria for Institutional Audits CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-37-4 Criteria for Programme Accreditation CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-42-0 Enhancing the contribution of Distance Higher Education in South Africa CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-38-2 Framework for Institutional Audits CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-36-6 Framework for Programme Accreditation CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-43-9 Higher Education Monitor - The State of the Provision of the MBA in South Africa CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-40-4 Improving Teaching & Learning (ITL) Resources CHE publication South African Higher Education in the First Decade of Democracy CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-41-2 The Governance of Merger in South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-39-0 Towards A Framework for the Monitoring and Evaluation of South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-35-8 Year of publication: 2003 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2002/2003 CHE publication - ISBN: 0-621-34432-X Directory of ETQAs and Professional Bodies CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-34-X Kagisano Issue Number 2 CHE publication Kagisano Issue Number 3 CHE publication Year of publication: 2002 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2001-2002 CHE publication Governance in South African Higher Education Research Report CHE publication - Martin Hall, Ashley Symes, Thierry M Luescher - ISBN: 1-919586-30-7 Policy Report: Promoting Good Governance in South African Higher Education CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919586-29-3 Proceedings of the Colloquium on Building Relationships between Higher Education and the Private and Public Sectors CHE publication - ISBN: 1-919856-33-1 Year of publication: 2001 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 2000/2001 CHE publication - ISBN: 0-621-31587-7 Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) Founding Document CHE publication Year of publication: 2000 An Evaluation of SERTEC and the Quality Promotion Unit CHE publication - Jairam Reddy, Narend Baijnath, John Brennan, Magda Fourie, Ethney Genis, - ISBN: 1-919586-01-3 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 1999/2000 CHE publication - ISBN: 919856-03-X Year of publication: 1999 Annual Report of the Council on Higher Education 1998/1999 CHE publication - ISBN: 0-620-25030-5