Higher education partnership prospers

Looking ahead: University rectors and vice-chancellors Prof Brian O'Connell of UWC, Prof Vuyisa Mazwi-Tanga of CPUT, Premier Helen Zille, Prof Russel Botman of Stellenbosch and UCT's Dr Max Price at a recent meeting between CHEC and the provincial government.

Representatives from the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) sat down with Premier Helen Zille and members of her provincial government at UCT last week to review the partnership between the consortium and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC). In keeping with the aims of the partnership, CHEC institutions - UCT, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape - set out to address regional concerns through the design and make-up of academic programmes. In addition to looking back on the achievements of the partnership to date, the consortium and the PGWC also discussed a three-year planning framework.