ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15

Strategic
Objective
Performance
Indicators
Number of female
students at
universities
Proportion of
higher education
enrolments
in Science,
Engineering and
Technology (SET)
Business Science
and Humanities
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Vote 17
2014/15 Annual Report
Actual
Achievement
2013/14
554 840
(2012 academic
October 2013)
Planned Target
for 2014/15
564 000 HEMIS
audited female
enrolments at
universities for the
2013 academic
October 2014
Proportion of
enrolments in
SET: Business
Science:
Humanities
of 29:29:42
for the 2013
academic year,
HEMIS audited
October 2014
Actual
Achievement
2014/15
573 698 (HEMIS
audited data,
October 2014
29:28:43 (2013
HEMIS audited
October 2014)
Deviation
from planned
targets to Actual
Achievement
2014/15
Target achieved
The system
enrolled 9 698
more female
students than
targeted
Target not
achieved
The proportion
of humanities
1% higher than
targeted and of
Business Science
targeted
Comments on deviation; both over and
under achievement
in enrolment targets, as indicated in the
Ministerial Statement of University Funding
The reason for the variation is due to the high
Humanities. This resulted in the deviation of a
43% enrolled in Humanities in relation to the
planned 42%. Since 2003, concerted efforts
have been made to increase the number of
enrolments in education due to the need for
teacher education in 2007 and the introduction
terms of funding for infrastructure on teacher
the development of the Integrated Strategic
Development (2011-2015). The Department
has been implementing this initiative since
The universities have responded positively to
the former Department of Education and the
increasing their enrolments and graduates
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