Southern African Wildlife College Accreditation
Accreditation
The College ensures that all legal requirements for institutional registration and programme accreditation are adhered to.
Legislative Context
The College is a legal association with the registered name of the Southern African Wildlife College NPC – Registration Number 1996/005726/08 – and a non-profit company in terms of the Companies Act, no. 71 of 2008.
The Programme Management Policy is benchmarked against the following legislation and guidelines:
- National Education Policy Act, Act 27 of 1996
- Higher Education and Training Act – as amended by the Higher Education Amendment Act (Act No. 39 of 2008)
- Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997) Regulations for the Registration of Private Higher Education Institutions, 2016 • Further Education and Training Act – as amended by the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance
- Amendment Act (Act No. 50 of 2008)
- SAQA Act – as amended by the National Qualifications Framework Act (Act No. 67 of 2008)
- Various SAQA Criteria and Guidelines documents such as the Guidelines to Integrated Assessment.
- Skills Development Act – as amended by the Skills Development Amendment Act (Act No. 37 of 2008)
- Skills Development Levies Act, Act 9 of 1999
- ETQA Regulations
- Requirements of the ETQA/QC with whom the College is accredited/registered (HEQC/UMALUSI/QCTO/ Sector
- Education and Training Authorities)
- Department of Higher Education and Training guidelines for Work-Integrated Learning and Workplace-based Learning.
- Council on Higher Education – A good practice guide for the quality management of short courses offered outside of the higher education qualifications sub-framework, September 2016
- Department of Higher Education and Training – Draft policy on Internationalisation, April 2017