The Central University of Technology is hosting the Council of Higher Education for the Institutional Audit site visit from 01 to 05 August 2022 on both the Bloemfontein and Welkom Campuses.

About the Council on Higher Education 

The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body responsible for advising the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation on all Higher Education policy issues, and for quality assurance in Higher Education and Training. The CHE was established in May 1998 in terms of the Higher Education Act, No 101 of 1997.

The principles of the upcoming round of standard Institutional Audits are as follows: 

• Institutions are responsible for assuring quality through their internal quality assurance system. External quality assurance, in the form of institutional audits, is based on a review methodology, consisting of self-reflection and Peer Evaluation.
• A differentiated approach is followed in which institutions are evaluated in terms of their Vision, Mission, and goals, as well as their identity, context and location, and their quality assurance maturity.
• The focus areas of institutional audits direct the evaluations undertaken by the audit panel members who conduct site visits, and their subsequent compilation of the audit report. Moreover, the focus areas guide institutions in the preparation of the entire Self-evaluation Report (SER), which consists of the Institutional Profile, the Self-Evaluation, and the portfolio of evidence (PoE).

Posted in March 2022: Institutional Planning and Quality Enhancement Unit in Conjunction with the Council of Higher Education (CHE) presents the 2022 Institutional Audit

Important to know

There will be weeklong sessions with various stakeholders to ensure the quality and thoroughness of the Audit; for more information, individuals can send an e-mail to: epieterse@cut.ac.za or bmahleko@cut.ac.za