Yvonne Shapiro Director, NLRD (SAQA) September 2017 HEQCIS and NLRD Update Yvonne Shapiro Director, NLRD (SAQA) September 2017

HEQCIS Compliance Letters December Status continues to be calculated over the whole year Qualification Table continues to be attached New: Graphs of Enrolments and Achievements are also attached ...

Achievements per Year – All PHEIs

HEQCIS League Tables 1. Learner Loads for the seven-month (lengthened) cycle that ended in July 2017 (total 119 PHEIs)

2. HEQCIS Staffing 2.1. By Institution (total 119)

2.2. By Site (total 238)

HEQCIS Load Specifications 1. No New Tables or Fields, this time! 2. Explanation of the Person Identifier Rule: In order to be loaded onto the HEQCIS, each Person Record that is new to the HEQCIS must either have a National ID number or a Person_Alternate_Id that is a Passport Number or a Refugee Number. Note that new to the HEQCIS means a record that the HEQCIS has not seen before. (A record could be new to one Provider but not to another: such a record is not new to the HEQCIS.) Specific records that have been loaded in the past without a National ID number or a Passport Number or Refugee Number, and are therefore already known to the HEQCIS, will continue to be accepted as before.

HEQCIS and NLRD Facts and Figures

Current Numbers recorded on the HEQCIS Private Higher Providers Qualifications (including replacements and quals per site) Individual learners and their achievements Total Number of Learners on the NLRD: almost 18 million

Most Frequent Public/Private Patterns The first 4-step path has 147 learners following: Public (National Certificate) > Private (National Higher Diploma) > Private (National Diploma) > Private (National Diploma)

4th NLRD Trends Report Pathway Trends Analysis of the NLRD (Information system of the NQF) Launched March 2017

Number of Qualifications Awarded per NQF Sub-Framework, 1995 to 2014 (Total 11 383 846) (Nursing was analysed separately because it was swamping the rest of the OQSF)

NLRD Verification Statistics up to mid-2017 The percentage of proven misrepresentation in Public Service verifications, from 1 October 2009 (when recording began) to mid-2017, was 0.3% of all PEOPLE whose qualifications were submitted for pre-appointment verification and for which a definitive “Yes” or “No” response could be found, and 0.2% of all RECORDS submitted for pre-appointment verification and for which a definitive “Yes” or “No” response could be found. A record is defined as one qualification for one person. Thus, if five qualifications must be verified for one person, then the number of people is one and the number of records is five.

HEQCIS Staff and Contact details Lerato Matubatuba, HEQCIS Manager Nontutu Bhele (Baartman), HEQCIS Assistant Manager Supported by: NLRD Director (Yvonne Shapiro, until 31 October 2017) NLRD Data Managers and Data Analysts heqcis@che.ac.za CHE website contains templates and information, including HEQCIS Lookup Tables and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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