Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

To regulate higher education; to provide for the establishment, composition and functions of a Council on Higher Education; to provide for the determination of transformation policy and oversight mechanisms for the public higher education system; to provide for the development of articulation and recognition of prior learning frameworks across the education system; to provide for new institutional types; to provide for the establishment, disestablishment, conversion, merging, incorporation, governance and funding of public higher education institutions; to provide for the powers of the council of a public higher education institution to invest funds; to provide for the conflict of interest and code of conduct of members of the council, committees of the council, and employees, of a public higher education institution; to provide for the issuing of Ministerial directives;  to provide for the appointment, functions and indemnification of an independent assessor; to provide for the appointment, functions, indemnification and termination of the term of office of an administrator; to provide for the issuing of post-administration directives by the Minister; to provide for the establishment, disestablishment, governance and funding of national institutes for higher education; to provide for the registration of private higher education institutions, the different categories of registration and the associated rights; to provide for quality assurance and quality promotion in higher education; to provide for the withdrawal and revocation of qualifications by public or private higher education institutions; to provide for transitional arrangements and the repeal of certain laws; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[Long title substituted by section 43 of Notice No. 21, GG 40548, dated 17 January 2017]