DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION TRAININGENROLME
NT PLANNING 9 SEPTEMBER 2009
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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