The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) was established as an independent statutory body in May 1998 in terms of the Higher Education Act, No 101 of 1997. The Higher Education Act and the Education White Paper 3 of 1997, A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education, establish the responsibilities of the CHE as advising the Minister of Education on all matters related to higher education policy issues and assuming executive responsibility for quality assurance within higher education and training.

The vision of the CHE is a transformed, equitable, high quality, economically and socially responsive, productive and sustainable higher education system in a transformed, equitable, just, humane and democratic South Africa based on the principles and values of non-racialism, nonsexism, freedom of expression and other basic human and social rights.   More detail...