Higher education legislative frameworks

DHET

Amendment of the Minimum Admission Requirements for entry into Bachelor's degree programmes
(2018)

Articulation Policy for Post-School Education and Training System in South Africa (January 2017)

Classification of Education Subject Matter (CESM) (Updated 2014)

Dictionary of Terms and Concepts for Post-School Education and Training (2021)

Extended Curriculum Programmes: Foundation Provision in Departmentally Approved programmes
(May 2012)

Funding Policy on Extended Curriculum Programmes (Foundation Provision) (March 2018)

Higher Education Act No. 101 of 1997 (as amended)

Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF) (October 2014)

Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions (October 2020)

Minimum Admission Requirements for Higher Certificate, Diploma and Bachelor's degree
programmes (July 2008)

Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (Revised 2015)

National Qualifications Framework Act, No. 67 of 2008

National Qualifications Framework Amendment Act, No. 12 of 2019

Policy for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities in the Context of an
Integrated Post-School System (July 2014)

Revised Policy on the Minimum requirements for Teacher Education Qualification (February 2015)

White paper for Post-School Education and Training: Building an Expanded, Effective and Integrated
Post-School System (November 2013)

CHE

A Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) for Higher Education in South Africa (February 2021)

A Good Practice Guide for the Quality Management of Short Courses offered outside of the Higher
Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (September 2016)

A Good Practice Guide and Self-evaluation Instrument for Managing the Quality of Service-Learning
(June 2006)

A Good Practice Guide: Work-integrated Learning. HE Monitor (12 August 2011)

Criteria for Programme Accreditation. Higher Education Quality Committee (November 2004)

Distance Higher Education Programmes in a Digital Era: Good Practice Guide (2014)

Framework for Institutional Audits (March 2021)

Framework for Programme Accreditation. Higher Education Quality Committee (November 2004)

Framework for Qualification Standards in Higher Education (2013)

Learning to Teach in Higher Education in South Africa: An investigation into the influences of
institutional context on the professional learning of academics in their roles as teachers. Higher
Education Monitor 14 (2017)

Manual for Institutional Audits (March 2021)

Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning, Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and Assessment in
Higher Education (August 2016)

Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) (2021)

Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (May 2015)

Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Library and Information Science (July 2020)

Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Sport Coaching (July 2020)

Qualification Standard for Doctoral degrees (November 2018)

Quality Assurance Guidelines for Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning and Assessment during
the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

SAQA

Level Descriptors for the South African National Qualification Framework (2012)

National Policy and Criteria for Designing and Implementing Assessment for NQF Qualifications, Part-
Qualifications and Professional Designations in South Africa (2015)

National Policy for the Recognitions of Prior Learning (February 2016)

Policy and Criteria for Evaluating Foreign Qualifications within the South African NQF (as amended)
(March 2017)

Policy and Criteria for Recognising a Professional Body and Registering a Professional Designation
for the purpose of the National Qualifications Framework Act, Act 67 of 2008 (as amended) (2020)

Policy and Criteria for the Registration of Qualifications and Part-qualifications on the National
Qualifications Framework (as amended) (2022)

Policy and Criteria for Credit Accumulation and Transfer within the National Qualifications Framework
(as amended) (2021)

Standard Glossary of Terms: Terms related to the South African National Qualifications Framework
(April 2014)

Other

National Development Plan 2030: Our future - make it work (2012)

National University Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Baseline Report

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