ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15

Strategic
Objective
4.4.2.7
To develop
and enhance
the research
capacity and
productivity of
universities
Performance
Indicators
Revised
regulations for
Private Higher
Education
Institutions
(PHEIs)
developed and
approved for
implementation
An annual
monitoring report
on the compliance
of PHEIs
Number of
post-graduate
graduates
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Vote 17
2014/15 Annual Report
Actual
Achievement
2013/14
Planned Target
for 2014/15
Draft revised
regulations
for PHEIs are
approved and
published in the
Government
comment by
September 2014
An annual
monitoring report
on the PHEIs
compliance
recommendations
for improvement
produced and
approved by the
Director-General
by 31 March 2015
45 598
(2012 academic
though HEMIS
audits by
October 2013)
48 100 Postgraduate
graduates for the
2013 academic
through HEMIS
audits by October
2014
Actual
Achievement
2014/15
Draft regulations
13 October 2014
and published in
the Government
17 October 2014
Monitoring
the regulatory
recommendations
for improvement,
approved by the
Director-General
50 773 (2013
HEMIS audited
October 2014)
Deviation
from planned
targets to Actual
Achievement
2014/15
Target not
frame
Target achieved None
Target achieved
The system
graduated
2 673 more
post-graduate
graduates than
targeted
Comments on deviation; both over and
under achievement
the organisation and in some instances also
have to pass through other branches. This
result in changes to the submission and these
signed off by the Minister after 30 September
2014, and therefore could only be published in
it is above the agreed upon 2% acceptable
variation in enrolment targets, as indicated in
the Ministerial Statement of University Funding,
performing better than expected and funding is
being utilised more effectively
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