CHE Business Plan

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CHE Business Plan

• 2009-2011

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Mission

• The mission of the CHE is to contribute to the
  development of a higher education system that is
  characterised by quality and excellence, equity,
  responsiveness to economic and social development
  needs and effective and efficient provision,
  governance and management.
• The mission of the CHE is to contribute to the
  development of a transformed, equitable, high
  quality higher education system capable of
  responding to the intellectual, ethical and human
  resources challenges of a democratic society
  based on social justice principles which operates
  in a global context.

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Vision

• The vision of the CHE is a transformed,
  equitable, high quality, economically and
  socially responsive, productive and sustainable
  higher education system in a transformed,
  equitable, just, humane and democratic South
  Africa based on the principles and values of
  non-racialism, non-sexism, freedom of expression
  and other basic human and social rights.
• The CHE as an independent statutory body strives
  to be an organisation nationally and
  internationally recognized for the quality of its
  intellectual contribution to and its impact on
  the SA higher education system, its principled
  positions, its work ethic and its transparent
  governance processes in the discharge of its core
  functions.

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Values

• Equity and redress
• Democratisation
• Development
• Effectiveness and efficiency
• Academic freedom
• Institutional autonomy
• Public accountability.
• Quality
• Independence
• Transformation
• Integrity

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Legislative Areas of Responsibility

• Advising the Minister of Education.
• Monitoring the higher education system.
• Assuring and promoting the quality of HE.
• Contributing to the development of HE.
• Standard setting and generation.

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Advice

• To continue to provide advice to the Minister of
  Education on request.
• To continue to proactively identify key issues
  for advice and produce advice for the Minister of
  Education, with special emphasis on the unfolding
  implementation phase.
• To complete outstanding projects pertaining to
  the advice function.

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Monitoring and Advice

• a) Monitoring
• The directorate goals in this area are
• To develop profiles of all higher education
  institutions to be audited between 2008 and 2010.
• To use profile information in order to produce
  analyses of trends in different sub-sectors of
  the higher education system, e.g. universities of
  technology and merged institutions.
• To develop a methodology to analyse the impact
  that differentiation in mission has had on the HE
  system.

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Monitoring and Advice

• b) Evaluation
• The directorates goals in this area are
• To identify areas for advice and further research
  through the analysis of HEQC audit reports and
  institutional profiles of public higher education
  institutions.
• To produce reports on the State of the Quality of
  Provision in specific programme areas which
  constitute the focus of national reviews
  conducted by the HEQC.
• To produce a report on the state of teaching and
  learning in South Africa.

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Monitoring and Advice

• c) Research
• The directorates goals in this area are
• To conduct research on the impact of the
  different steering instruments in achieving the
  goals of HE policy.
• To conduct research on the articulation between
  HE and high school and higher education and the
  FTE sector.

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Development of HE

• Hold two consultative conferences.
• Publish at least 3 Higher Education Monitor.
• Publish at least 3 Kagisano.
• Hold two discussion fora.

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Quality Assurance

• To continue with the implementation of the
  quality assurance system through the conduct of
  institutional audits, programme accreditation,
  national reviews, the management of the
  coordination function, and quality promotion and
  capacity development.
• To deepen the strategic interactions between the
  different HEQC subsystems.
• To deepen the strategic interactions with the
  monitoring and advice functions of the CHE.
• To continue to monitor the impact of the HEQC on
  higher education institutions and utilize the
  outcomes of this process for strategic purposes.

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Quality Assurance

• To analyse and consider the implementation of the
  recommendations suggested in the report of the
  HEQC external evaluation.
• To develop a framework for the implementation of
  the second cycle of institutional audits
  2011-2017.
• To continue with the HEQC work in the area of
  international liaison with other regional and
  international QA agencies and networks.

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Standard Generation

• To set up a new division in the CHE to take
  responsibility for this function.
• To develop a framework for the undertaking of
  standard setting and generation.
• To implement the above framework.

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Organisational Challenges

• Ability to recruit, develop and retain
  highly-skilled professional staff at senior and
  middle management level.
• Enhancement of the overall organizational systems
  to respond to the demands of the new format of
  the financial and performance audit conducted by
  the National Treasury.
• Realignment of the organizational structure to
  meet its responsibilities.
• Implementation of its communication strategy.

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Key performance indicators
Indicators Performance Performance Performance Performance Performance Performance Performance
Indicators Past Past Past Current Projected Projected Projected
Indicators 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11
To conduct institutional audits (public and private HE institutions) 4 6 6 5 4 4 3
To promote quality and develop quality related capacity in higher education(auditors, national reviewers and programme evaluators trained) 185 645 573 630 170 210 150
Learning programmes accreditated 305 272 262 250 220 250 250
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Business plan Budget 2009-2011

• 19 October 2007

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CHE Budget 1999-2011
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Sources of Income 1999 2011
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Income vs Expenditure 1999 - 2007
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Project allocations expenditure1999 - 2007
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Utilization of Reserve Funds 2008 -2011

• Current FY R1,752 m
• Standard setting
• NLRD
• Advice
• HEIAAF
• Other research
• Next FYs
• Standard Setting R2, 5 m
• NLRD R2,35 m
• Interest on Investment R1,2 m R1,5

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Employment 1999 - 2007