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Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Certificate backlog: Umalusi & SITA update; DHET Quarter 2 performance; Skills Development: HR Development Council
21 Nov 2018
The Committee met to hear briefings from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) on its quarterly report, and from the State Information and Technology Agency (SITA) and Umalusi on the certification status for post-school qualifications. It also received a report from the Human Resources Development Council of South ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: adoption
20 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider and finalise the Property Practitioners Bill and consider the Report of the Bill.
The Department of Human Settlements took the Committee through the bill clause by clause.
The Committee:
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: adoption of committee report
15 Nov 2018
The Committee Report on the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill [B 20 – 2018] was adopted with minor changes. The Committee had adopted the report the previous day.
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: proposed amendments
14 Nov 2018
The Committee was taken though the cleaned A-List of the Property Practitioners Bill to see whether the proposed amendments that had been agreed on by Members the previous day had been amended accordingly.
Members agreed that what had been read to them was what they had proposed as amendments.
The ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & deliberations
13 Nov 2018
The Committee was in the process of looking at amendments to the draft Property Practitioners Bill after consultative stakeholder engagements, and after Members had looked at all the submissions and deliberated on them.
The Department ’s legal team took Members through the amendments. Of particular importance, there was now a ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: consideration
8 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training met to consider and revert back to a decision on the referral of qualification or part-qualification to the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) for verification and evaluation. The legal team presented its input on Clause 32 (1) 9a) (b) and (c) and ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & deliberations
7 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) on the submissions made during the public hearings in Parliament and in the provinces during September on the Property Practitioners Bill.
The Department’s legal adviser provided details of the submissions from a wide range of stakeholders in the property, ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: deliberations
24 Oct 2018
The Committee met to consider and discuss the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill [B20-2018].
The Committee felt that since at least three stakeholders had bemoaned the definition of ‘authentic’ as being vague and creating confusion, it wanted to know whether the newly drafted definition covered all the possibilities of inauthenticity. ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Poor performance: Limpopo Provincial Department of Human Settlement briefing
23 Oct 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements & Traditional Affairs (CoGHSTA), Limpopo, on their performance during the 2017/18 financial year.
The Department highlighted their main challenges and said interventions had been put in place to address them. These challenges were the reallocation of projects without ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Higher Education Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
Higher Education BRRR available once published: 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee considered two Budgetary Review and Recommendation Reports (BRRRs). These were the draft report of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, and the report with specific reference to the National Student Financial Aid ...