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1 Professional Bodies Forum
Murisi Auditorium CHE 28 February 2012

2 Update on CHE’s Quality Assurance Activities
Professional Bodies Forum Council on Higher Education Dr Mark Hay Executive Director: Quality Assurance 28 February 2012

3 Quality assurance and what is ‘higher’ about higher education
Outline Update on CHE activities One system different parts Memorandum of Understanding

4 Update on CHE activities
CHE’s QA and QP mandate Defining quality and its achievement The national and institutional contexts What’s to be done? Available tools in the QA toolbox

5 Our higher education system
Maturing HE system, public and private Institutions at various levels of quality maturity Some public institutions are struggling Need for both accountability and development tools Next period of quality assurance

6 CHE’s QA tools QA and the public good: society, students and staff
Accreditation National reviews Institutional audits/reviews Quality promotion and development

7 One system: different parts
The HEQC, professional bodies and HE providers play different roles. As they all have an interest in the academic programmes, their responsibilities are separate but complementary. As they all have an interest in the academic programmes, their responsibilities are separate but complementary HEIs How do they each do their parts which they do well and are good at and are interested in? Professional Bodies HEQC

8 MoUs Individual agreements between the CHE and a statutory professional body , taking into account principles of collaboration. Formal channels of information sharing and communication Cooperate in the evaluation and accreditation of higher education programmes (where relevant), and quality support and promotion in areas where there is an overlap in mandates Cooperate to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of education and training leading to a qualification in the relevant profession

9 Conclusion Collaborating to ensure quality and growing towards system maturity and enhanced self-regulation in higher education.


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