Suzanne Hattingh

“Education needs a total ‘face-lift’; the entire education environment, from pre-school to post-graduate education, needs to be re-imagined and aligned with emerging skills requirements. One of the key imperatives to both escape the Dead-end scenario and to achieve the Accomplished Game Changers scenario is a total re-haul of the education / tra…[Read more]

The latest CHE and SAQA requirements for Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Accumulation and Transfer are included in the attachment. This is a useful reference document for writing your RPL & CAT policy for CHE accreditation. Make sure that your processes and procedures are aligned to these requirements.

The policies required for CHE Accreditation must be aligned to relevant national policies of SAQA, Council on Higher Education and DHET. I’m sharing this list of the documents to which the accreditation documents should be aligned. I hope you find it useful. Please share any updated policies that I might have missed so that we can be sure that we…[Read more]

Skills@Work published my article on: Preparing the workforce for the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Topics covered include:
Changes in the nature of work and occupations
Changes in employer-employee relationships
Skills required by the workforce of 2025-2030
Preparing for a new partnership with machines
Are we training people for a world that no…[Read more]

I’ve created a 3-pages summary of all the policies, documents and other information required for CHE accreditation. I hope you find it useful.

The world of work in the 4th Industrial Revolution will result in a larger part of the workforce being engaged in alternative work arrangements, with many doing work for more than one organisation at the same time. This will be increasingly common in the ‘GIG economy’: a labour market characterised by flexible, on-demand work in short-term con…[Read more]

How should we respond to the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution? In a presentation in January at the 2019 SALSA Seminar of the Legislatures of South Africa, I posed these questions that we need to ask as individuals, leaders and critical thinkers.
1. What are the main Threats and Opportunities of Industry 4.0 and how they affect my…[Read more]

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For Private Higher Education Institutions seeking CHE accreditation or already accredited, the attachment contains explanations of the following issues:
1. Requirement for DHET Registration before enrolling students,
2. Initiative to appeal to Minister Pandor to address issues re DHET registration,
3. DHET reporting requirements after…[Read more]

I’m looking for someone with expertise in assisting private providers to get Umalusi accreditation.

Most providers who fail their first application for CHE Accreditation don’t meet the requirements of Criterion 1: Programme Design. This is arguably the most important criterion for the CHE Programme Accreditation of Private Higher Education Institutions. In almost every case in which I’ve assisted institutions over many years to write R…[Read more]

The 4th Industrial Revolution has brought the “exponential pace of change (that is) disrupting every industry in every country (and) impacting every aspect of how we work and how we live, creating threats and opportunities”. (Morgan: https://bit.ly/2lHu4Ej) These exponential disruptions will not affect all industries and occupations to the sam…[Read more]

CHE today approved accreditation for a provider that I guided through the process from start to finish. I am very pleased that we passed every step without any problems or queries! But it still it took 2⅔ years from start to full accreditation. Here is the timeline to give you an idea of the steps in the process.
• January 2016: We submit the app…[Read more]