Unit for Institutional Planning

Institutional Planning at CUT is a unit that brings together the functions of Strategic Planning, Institutional Research, Academic Planning, Quality Assurance, Data Management, Data Services and Data Liaison (HEMIS etc.). The people in these posts are listed in the table below.

The overall mandate of Institutional Planning (IP) is to perform, support and supervise the tasks necessary to ensure that CUT’s strategic and operational planning and monitoring of its performance, its decision making and management information support systems, quality assurance functions and compliance with Higher Education and Labour Acts are efficiently and effectively carried out.

The Institutional Planning team:  Dr Antoni Szubarga, Ms Rona Badenhorst, Ms Priya Nundlall, Kebogile Moreng, Mr Anele Magwentshu, Mr Oriah Selolo and Dr Cay van der Merwe.
Not present:  Mr Rajen Padayachi.

Institutional Research

The Institutional Research office supports strategic planning, based on responsible research into institutional matters and provides advice and operational support in the mostly quantitative aspects of research into Human Resources, Finances, Physical Resources, Students and Academic matters, as they pertain to an institution of Higher Education. In particular, IR provides sound evidence of institutional performance, of socio-economic trends to which CUT should respond, and performs regular "customer" opinion and experience surveys on relevant themes.

Academic Planning and Quality Assurance

Academic Planning functions to integrate staff, student, financial resources and infrastructure planning with the CUT’s Enrolment Plan, contracted with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).  It must ensure that its Program Qualification Matrix (PQM) remains totally aligned with the vision of the CUT, the higher education transformation agenda, as well as the socio-economic needs of the country.

Quality Assurance develops review systems, in line with the Higher-Education Quality Committee (HEQC) directives, and carries them out in the form of Institutional, Academic Program and Support unit audits/Reviews, which include peer evaluation.  These give rise to Quality improvement plans, the outcomes of which are monitored and updated where necessary.  Furthermore, quality improvement must be entrenched within every single endeavour at CUT, to continuously increase effectiveness and efficiency.

Data Management

 

The purpose of Data Management section is to:

o          support operational and strategic management decision-making across the institution;

o          fulfil the University’s statutory reporting obligations; and

o          fulfil internal and external stakeholders’ information requirements,  by providing high-quality, up-to-date, relevant and easily accessible information.

Name	Telephone	Fax	E-mail
Cay van der Merwe Director: Institution Planning	+27 51 507 3304	+27 51 507 3654	cay@cut.ac.za
Priya Nundlall Secretary: Director of Institutional Planning	+27 51 507 3304	+27 51 507 3654	pnundlal@cut.ac.za
Anele Magwentshu Deputy Director: Data Management	+27 51 507 3591	+27 51 507 3654	amagwentshu@cut.ac.za
Oriah Selolo Head: Data Services	+27 51 507 3595	+27 51 507 3654	mselolo@cut.ac.za
Rona Badenhorst Data Liaison: Legal & Agreements	+27 51 507 3515	+27 51 507 3654	badenr@cut.ac.za
Antoni Szubarga Deputy Director: Institutional Research	+27 51 507 3008	+27 51 507 3654	szubarga@cut.ac.za
Rajen  Padayachi Deputy Director: Academic Planning & Quality Assurance	+27 51 507 3054	+27 51 507 3654	rpadayachi@cut.ac.za