While Rhodes University has its internal mechanisms to ensure quality education and institutional research, it also adheres to external standards put in place by entities below. Important guiding documents have been included. 

National Education Entities

Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)

• Higher Education Act 101 of 1997.pdf
• Report of the Ministerial Task Team on the Recruitment, Retention and Progression of Black South African Academics
• Classification of Educational Subject Matter (CESM)

Council on Higher Education (CHE)

• The Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework
• Distance Higher Education Programmes in a Digital Era: Good Practice Guide, CHE
• A Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) for Higher Education in South Africa 
• Standards for the Bachelor of Commerce 2021
• CHE Manual for Institutional Audits 2021
• CHE Framework for Institutional Audits 2021

South African Qualificiations Authority (SAQA)

• SAQA Level Descriptors
• National Qualifications Framework.pdf
• Policy and Criteria for Credit Accumulation and Transfer within NQF (2021)
• National Policy and Criteria for the Implementation of RPL (2019)

Professional Bodies

Southern African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR)

Association for Insitutional Research (AIR)

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