June 27, 2003

Panel to Audit Quality of South African Colleges; Zimbabwe Takes Over Private Institution

The Council for Higher Education, in South Africa, is beginning a complete round of audits intended to assess the quality of all higher-education institutions in that country, a task that is expected to take six years.

South Africa had no national criteria for assessing the quality of the country's higher-education institutions until a 1997 bill established the council, an independent body, which has a permanent committee on quality. But the council did not begin pilot audits until

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