Higher education legislative frameworks
DHET |
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- Amendment of the Minimum Admission Requirements for entry into Bachelor's degree programmes (2018)
- Articulation Policy for Post-School Education and Training System in South Africa (January 2017)
- Classification of Education Subject Matter (CESM) (Updated 2014)
- Dictionary of Terms and Concepts for Post-School Education and Training (2021)
- Extended Curriculum Programmes: Foundation Provision in Departmentally Approved programmes (May 2012)
- Funding Policy on Extended Curriculum Programmes (Foundation Provision) (March 2018)
- Higher Education Act No. 101 of 1997 (as amended)
- Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF) (October 2014)
- Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions (October 2020)
- Minimum Admission Requirements for Higher Certificate, Diploma and Bachelor's degree programmes (July 2008)
- Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (Revised 2015)
- National Qualifications Framework Act, No. 67 of 2008
- National Qualifications Framework Amendment Act, No. 12 of 2019
- Policy for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities in the Context of an Integrated Post-School System (July 2014)
- Revised Policy on the Minimum requirements for Teacher Education Qualification (February 2015)
- White paper for Post-School Education and Training: Building an Expanded, Effective and Integrated Post-School System (November 2013)
CHE |
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- A Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) for Higher Education in South Africa (February 2021)
- A Good Practice Guide for the Quality Management of Short Courses offered outside of the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (September 2016)
- A Good Practice Guide and Self-evaluation Instrument for Managing the Quality of Service-Learning (June 2006)
- A Good Practice Guide: Work-integrated Learning. HE Monitor (12 August 2011)
- Criteria for Programme Accreditation. Higher Education Quality Committee (November 2004)
- Distance Higher Education Programmes in a Digital Era: Good Practice Guide (2014)
- Framework for Institutional Audits (March 2021)
- Framework for Programme Accreditation. Higher Education Quality Committee (November 2004)
- Framework for Qualification Standards in Higher Education (2013)
- Learning to Teach in Higher Education in South Africa: An investigation into the influences of institutional context on the professional learning of academics in their roles as teachers. Higher Education Monitor 14 (2017)
- Manual for Institutional Audits (March 2021)
- Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning, Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and Assessment in Higher Education (August 2016)
- Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) (2021)
- Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (May 2015)
- Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Library and Information Science (July 2020)
- Qualification Standard for Bachelor of Sport Coaching (July 2020)
- Qualification Standard for Doctoral degrees (November 2018)
- Quality Assurance Guidelines for Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning and Assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
SAQA |
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- Level Descriptors for the South African National Qualification Framework (2012)
- National Policy and Criteria for Designing and Implementing Assessment for NQF Qualifications, Part- Qualifications and Professional Designations in South Africa (2015)
- National Policy for the Recognitions of Prior Learning (February 2016)
- Policy and Criteria for Evaluating Foreign Qualifications within the South African NQF (as amended) (March 2017)
- Policy and Criteria for Recognising a Professional Body and Registering a Professional Designation for the purpose of the National Qualifications Framework Act, Act 67 of 2008 (as amended) (2020)
- Policy and Criteria for the Registration of Qualifications and Part-qualifications on the National Qualifications Framework (as amended) (2022)
- Policy and Criteria for Credit Accumulation and Transfer within the National Qualifications Framework (as amended) (2021)
- Standard Glossary of Terms: Terms related to the South African National Qualifications Framework (April 2014)