Academic Planning Unit

APU at UCT

The Academic Planning Unit (APU) has two staff members and reports to the Director of Institutional Planning and through the Senate Academic Planning Committee (SAPC) to Senate. Key functions of the APU include:

• Providing advice on the NQF and programme development to academic departments and faculties
• Facilitation of the process of programme approval, accreditation and registration with the Department of Education (DoE), Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) and South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) respectively
• Ensuring that all the administrative academic planning requirements of the SAPC are met
• Facilitation of the environmental scanning process in UCT
• Facilitation of UCT's involvement in Cape Higher Education Consortium's (CHEC) regional planning processes
• Provide support for the process of developing an annual report on social responsiveness
• Using the management information system to undertake institutional research
• Maintenance of a curriculum database
• Analysis of Higher Education and Training policy

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