Policy & Resources

Quality Assurance and Enhancement Policy
Themes and Guiding Questions

Four Themes

Organisational Structure
Research
Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Social Impact

Tools and Guidelines (Organised by Evaluation Phase)

  • Scheduling, budgeting and planning for self-evaluations and peer reviews
  • Appointment of a self-evaluation committee
  • Defining the scope of a self-evaluation
  • Identifying comparable benchmarks
  • Setting up a project plan
  • Leading and facilitating a self-evaluation
  • Refining and contextualising themes and guiding questions
  • Drafting a Self-Evaluation Report
  • Including the student and stakeholder voice
  • Collecting and analysing evidence
  • Making quality judgements
  • Assessing the quality of a self-evaluation report
  • Approving and disseminating the SER
  • Nomination and appointment of peer reviewers
  • Setting a site visit schedule
  • Hosting a peer review panel and conducting a site visit
  • Revision, approval and submission of the final SER
  • Accepting a peer review report and responding to findings
  • Identifying improvement actions
  • Submitting a two-year follow-up report

Writing a Good Self-Evaluation Report

How to formulate an introduction Describing the collective sense-making and reflection process Strengthening student and stakeholder voices Collecting and analysing evidence Balancing narrative with critical analysis and quality judgements Identifying and prioritising improvement actions

Surveys

How to Develop and Produce Surveys

A Step-by-Step Guide

Read More

A. DRD Staff
B. DRD Stakeholders
C. DRD Deans
D. Postgraduate Students
E. Support Services
F. External Stakeholders
G. 2023 DRD SER – Survey Collection

Additional Resources

Deliverables and timeframe for a typical self-evaluation Core statistics: Definition of terms Role and responsibilities of peer reviewers Non-disclosure agreement Timeline for evaluation (template) Guideline for requesting platform access for external peer reviewers Post-site visit actions Responsibilities of the Chair Guidelines for writing a two-year follow-up report Guidelines for compiling a Portfolio of Evidence

Legislative and Institutional Frameworks and Policies

  • Stellenbosch University Improvement Plan 2024–2026
  • Social Impact Policy
  • Language Policy
  • Assessment Policy
  • Transformation Policy 2025
  • Regulation for Internal and External Moderation (2024)
  • RPL-CAT Assessment Policy Document
  • SU Information Curatorship Regulation
  • SU Privacy Regulations
  • SU RDM Regulations (2023)
  • Guideline Document for the Development of Qualifications
  • CHE: A Quality Assurance Framework for Higher Education in South Africa
  • CHE Programme Accreditation Criteria (Revised 2012)
  • National Policy for Assessment
  • Integrated Approach to QA by the CHE post-HEQC
  • Good Practice Guide on Student Engagement in QA

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