ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
VOTE 17
REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTING OFFICER
for the year ended 31 March 2015
1.1 Important policy decisions and strategic issues
made regarding the TVET and AET function shift process from the provincial sphere of Government to the
year also marked the launch and roll-out of the Decade of the Artisan Advocacy Campaign. Apart from various
evaluated and collated into the report.
and 6 universities of technology) and one National Institute for Higher Education (National Institute for the
Humanities and Social Sciences), from 25 universities and three national institutes in 2013/14:
Notice No. 37658, 16 May, 2014);
Incorporation of the MEDUNSA Campus of the University of Limpopo into SMU on 1 January 2015
592, Notice No. 38085, 10 October, 2014); and
Disestablishment of the National Institutes for Higher Education in the Northern Cape and Mpumalanga
Team consisting of representatives from the Department, Council on Higher Education (CHE), Higher Education
South Africa (HESA) and the University Chairs of Council Forum (UCCF) and has been submitted to the Minister
37726, 9 June 2014);
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