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Title: DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION


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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION TRAININGENROLME
NT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009
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White Paper Multiple Lens To View Higher
Education Planning
  • Improved access to higher education, particularly
    for students from poor and marginalised
    communities
  • Responsiveness of HE to the economic and social
    development priorities of the country
  • Improvement in for high level research and
    innovation
  • Enhanced quality of academic programme provision
    and the quality of student life and
  • Redress of historical inequalities.

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NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY GOALS
Size and shape of the higher education system Goal 1 Opportunities for entry into higher education must improve. Goal 2 Career oriented programme enrolment must increase. Goal 3 Enrolments in the fields of (a) science and technology and (b) business and management must grow. Goal 4 Masters and doctoral enrolments must grow. Student equity Goal 5 The participation of disadvantaged students in higher education must increase. Goal 6 The participation of female students in higher education must increase. Goal 7 Imbalances in postgraduate enrolments must be redressed. Goal 8 Imbalances in student success rates must be redressed. Staff equity Goal 9 The participation of disadvantaged groups in the professional staff complement of the system must improve. Goal 10 The participation of women in the systems professional staff must improve. Academic staff inputs Goal 11 Academic staff must be well-qualified. Goal 12 Educational processes must be supported by appropriate numbers of academic staff. Teaching outputs Goal 13 Student success rates must improve. Goal 14 The output of graduates must improve. Goal 15 Graduate totals in the fields of (a) science and technology and (b) business and management must grow. Research outputs Goal 16 The output of masters and doctoral graduates must improve. Goal 17 Research output totals must improve. Financial sustainability Goal 18 Growth of student enrolments must be financially sustainable
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Actual and Projected Enrolments
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Public Investment in HE
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CHALLENGES FOR SUCCESS
  • Low student success rates
  • Low student throughput rates
  • Higher staff student ratios
  • Lower research productivity
  • Inadequate academic infrastructure
    laboratories, lecture theatres, libraries
  • Inadequate capacity of student residences
  • Increased demand for financial aid

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Higher Education Planning
  • In 2006, the Ministry concluded the student
    enrolment and output planning process for the
    period to 2010. During 2009, a new cycle for the
    period from 2011 will be concluded
  • The planning parameters included
  • The HE system must contribute to national HRD and
    research priorities.
  • Attention must be paid to the need to increase
    the enrolment and graduate output of scarce and
    critical skills.
  • Enrolments must be matched to available
    resources, physical, human and financial.
  • Institutions must focus on improving graduation
    and success rates.
  • A differentiated approach to enrolment planning
    must be adopted.

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Key Considerations for Enrolment Planning
  • Capacity of our institutions in terms of
    infrastructure
  • Growth in traditional (11), comprehensives (6)
    and UoTs (6) plus 2 National Higher
  • Staff student ratios
  • Identification of strategic levers to increase
    access, graduation rates, success rates at all
    levels of study
  • Quality
  • Resourcing requirements of the sector

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Higher Education Planning
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Strategic Interventions
  • Investment to increase capacity in scarce and
    critical skills
  • Health Sciences
  • Natural and physical sciences, including plant
    and animal health
  • Engineering sciences and the built environment
  • Teacher education
  • Improve the quality of teaching, learning and
    research infrastructure
  • Renovate, build or modernize lecture theatres,
    laboratories and libraries
  • Improving the quality of life of students
  • Renovating or building student residences.

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Strategic Interventions
  • The focus of the foundation provision grant is to
    enrich the academic knowledge that is
    foundational to the achievement of a particular
    qualification, for which a foundation student has
    enrolled.
  • The focus of the teaching development grant is to
    improve institutional student success rates.
    Institution, whose actual teaching output totals
    are less than its normative totals, is allocated
    teaching development grant, which they must use
    as per an approved plan.

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Strategic Interventions
  • Amendment and simplification of regulations for
    registration of private HE institutions
  • Enhancement of HEMIS
  • Leverage opportunities of internationalisation of
    HE
  • Responding to the HIV and AIDS in HE

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Ongoing Strategic Interventions
  • Reviews of NSFAS Teaching and Research
    Development Grants
  • Second Cycle of System and Institutional
    Enrolment Planning
  • Implementation of the HE Qualifications Framework
  • Establish a National Information and Application
    Service
  • Deepening quality through programme evaluation
    and institutional audits
  • Increase diversity of post school options
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