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The Cape Library Consortium (CALICO) provides a networked library automation service for each member of the consortium and common access to the Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) of each. This constitutes a single Western Cape collection that is housed in different locations allowing access to a wide range of resources to registered students and staff members.

To contact CALICO, please email Nikki Crowster nikki@chec.ac.za

The Publishing Liaison Office (PLO) operates as a copyright clearance centre on behalf of the four universities in the Western Cape, as well as providing related services for teaching and learning materials used by staff and students. Activities of the PLO include: creating an awareness of the copyright laws of South Africa, facilitating compliance with these laws, negotiating reasonable fees for the use of materials from the various rights holders and participating in institutional forums shaping copyright policies and guidelines.

To contact the PLO, please email Janetta van der Merwe jwv@chec.ac.za or lemeez@chec.ac.za

To access the on-line system, please click here.

The Cape Higher Education Consortium offers a range of short courses on a wide variety of topics for middle and senior management. These courses have also been opened to staff from FET Colleges in the Western Cape as part of the support members of the consortium wish to provide to the FET sector.

For more information on CHEC's regional staff development programmes, please click here.

Under the auspices of Creating the Leading Edge, CHEC is offering, for the first time, two modules for full- and part-time lecturers in the Western Cape. The courses cover teaching and learning and the process of assessment in higher education.

For more information on CHEC's regional staff development programmes, please click here.
Click here to view the report on quality teaching in higher education.

The main objective of REEP is to foster increased co operation between the higher education institutions in the region, to demonstrate regional collaboration to funding agencies when applying for expensive research equipment, and better utilize existing equipment. Although earlier forms of REEP had existed, it was reinstated formally via CHEC in 2005, due to the increasing need for regional agreement and collaboration on the purchasing of major pieces of research equipment, and in an attempt to obtain optimal value from the limited funding available nationally. A major driver of this reinstitution was the introduction of the NRF National Equipment Programme, which requires regional collaboration.

The Committee consists of a representative appointed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) of each CHEC member and each institution’s directors / chairs of institutional equipment management bodies and / or institutional equipment committees. It also includes representatives from iThemba Labs.

The chair for 2010 is Professor Ramesh Bharuthram
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535
telephone: +27-21-959-2142
fax: +27-21-959-3352
email: rbharuthram@uwc.ac.za

Click here to view the 2009 REEP Annual Report

The Human Resources Directors of the four universities in the Western Cape meet periodically with the CHEC Secretariat to discuss matters of regional interest, share best practice and to collaborate on projects where appropriate. The region's HR Directors also belong to the National HR Directors' Forum, now a Community of Practice within the HESA structure. The contact person is Joy Fish joyfishza@iafrica.com

Adult education practitioners meet to discuss issues of common interest and to develop joint agendas to promote adult education. Most recently this group has provided support to the Cape Town City Council on policy and practice

Undergraduate Nursing education leading to registration with the South African Nursing Council is co-ordinated regionally. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a common teaching platform for the Western Cape was adopted at the end of August 2004 after several years of intensive work. The MOU is now administered by a Nursing Academic Board (NAB), consisting of representatives from all members of the consortium and of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. It reports via the CHEC Board to the Senates of the constituent institutions of CHEC.

The function of the NAB is to co-ordinate and to ensure the integrity of academic and clinical Nursing education and training offered by means of the common teaching platform for undergraduate Nursing education in the Western Cape. When necessary, it can determine policy and must review undergraduate Nursing curricula from time to time.

NAB consists of representatives from each of the CHEC member institutions and from the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. The current chair is the Dean of Community and Health Sciences at UWC, Professor Ratie Mpofu.

Prof. Ratie Mpfou
Dean: Community and Health Sciences
University of the Western Cape
Private bag X17
Bellville 7535
Tel: 021 959 2631/2746
Fax: 021 959 2755

The consortium of the CHEC member universities together with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) succeeded in its bid for inclusion in the Erasmus Mundus Programme – Action 2.

This programme provides support for the establishment of cooperation partnerships between European higher education institutions and higher education institutions from targeted Third Countries, and scholarships of various lengths.

For further information go to www.ema2sa.eu

Completed projects

INFOLIT was an information literacy project aimed at promoting interest in, and awareness of, the importance of information literacy. It was established by the Adamastor Trust and CALICO in 1995 and successfully concluded its work in December 2002. The archives of the Project have been preserved at the CHEC offices.