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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

Chapter 2 : Council on Higher Education

7. Qualifications, quality promotion and quality assurance

 

(1) The CHE performs its functions in relation to qualifications, quality assurance and quality promotion—
(a) in terms of this Act; and
(b) in its capacity as the quality council for higher education, in terms of the National Qualifications Framework Act.

 

(2) The CHE is responsible for the implementation of the HEQSF.

[Section 7(2) substituted by section 4 of Notice No. 21, GG 40548, dated 17 January 2017]

 

(3) The CHE must establish the Higher Education Quality Committee as a permanent committee to perform the quality assurance and quality promotion functions of the CHE in terms of this Act and the National Qualifications Framework Act.

 

(4) The Higher Education Quality Committee may, with the concurrence of the CHE, establish committees to assist it in the performance of its functions.

 

(5) The CHE may charge fees for any service rendered by the Higher Education Quality Committee to any person, institution or organ of state.

 

[Section 7 amended by section 3 of Act No. 39 of 2008]