Suzanne Hattingh

What is the latest CHE requirement for Private Higher Education Institutions relating to the writing of exams in a physical location? Is there any confirmation that CHE will accept online exams – i.e. as summative assessments not as formative assessments.

4IR and Covid-19 have forced us into a new reality that requires the re-examination and restructuring of our PSET system to prepare the workforce for the new world of work. The attachment describes the new ‘jobless’ world of work, changes in the nature of work, jobs and fixed occupations, and the skills required for flexible, temporary, vir…[Read more]

Private higher education providers will know that CHE has been strict about programmes being either accredited for contact or distance delivery. Covid-19 has forced CHE to change. The 17 April memo to accredited providers states: “The restrictions on all programmes accredited for contact delivery are lifted. All programmes accredited by the CHE…[Read more]

There are many documents to be submitted for the CHE accreditation of Private Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs). I’m sharing this template that I use with clients for project managing the preparation of the documents. We use it to record responsibilities, time frames, to track progress and to record any notes on the documents. The template…[Read more]

“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]

[email protected] 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.