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tertiary<br />
focus<br />
University enrolments<br />
need to be managed<br />
experiences, the Fellows Exchange Programme has<br />
allowed Fellows to learn the best of both worlds;<br />
which enables them to experiment with newly<br />
acquired practices and approaches, in the <strong>co</strong>ntext<br />
of their institutions.<br />
management and leadership capacities and capabilities<br />
within the sector. l<br />
• The HELM LEAD<br />
This is supported by the <strong>Education</strong> and Development<br />
Training SETA (EDTPSETA), which specifically targets the<br />
middle management layer in our Institutions. These are<br />
people who have been identified as potential leaders by<br />
the universities; and have some attributes to succeed<br />
either in their current positions or in higher positions.<br />
Here we focus on areas like strategic planning processes,<br />
policy and regulatory environment peculiar to the higher<br />
education sector, institutional planning, and higher<br />
education steering (planning; funding and quality<br />
assurance) and the use of data as an effective<br />
management tool.<br />
In 2012, we awarded 30 fellowships through this<br />
programme with outstanding results. In 2013, we have just<br />
awarded 30 Fellowships to begin their leadership and<br />
management journey later this year.<br />
With programmes like HELM, we bring all 23 of South<br />
Africa’s universities together and put them on an equal<br />
footing with experiential and peer-to-peer learning that<br />
benefits the entire sector. In 2014, we plan to scale up<br />
the programme to target the executive management<br />
layer. In this way, HE<strong>SA</strong> would be making its modest<br />
<strong>co</strong>ntribution to the improvement and strengthening of<br />
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