NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION 473 DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 14/03/2008 (INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER 09-2008) 473. Mrs D van der Walt (DA) to ask the Minister of Education: (1) In each of the past ten years up to and including 2007, (a)(i) how many education providers were (aa) registered and (bb) accredited by the SA Qualification Authority (Saqa) and (ii) what are their names, (b)(i) how many education providers received provisional accreditation, (ii) what are their names and (iii) when did they receive it and (c)(i) how many of these providers have since received actual or full accreditation and (ii) when did they receive it; (2) whether any education providers lost their accreditation, if so, (a) what are their names, (b) when did this occur and (c) why, in each case? NW1113E REPLY: Private Higher Education Institutions The Department of Education is responsible for the registration of private higher education institutions. The responsibility for accreditation vests with the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). (a) (i) In the period up to 2007, 443 institutions lodged applications for registration as private higher education institutions in terms of the Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No 101 of 1997). Of these, the Department registered 144 institutions, either provisionally or with full registration.. (bb) All institutions that have been granted registration would have obtained accreditation initially by SAQA and later by the Council on Higher Education (CHE). (ii) The 144 registered institutions that were registered by the Department after undergoing a quality assurance evaluation are listed in Table 1. b (i) Table 1 also lists the 41 institutions that were granted provisional registration during this period. b (ii) The name and respective year in which an institution received provisional registration is indicated in Table 1. c (i) and (ii) Table 1 shows the names and year in which 41 provisionally registered institutions which complied with the requirements for registration were granted full registration. TABLE 1 Year Total Institutions Name of Institution Registered 1999 23 1. AAA School of Advertising (Pty) Ltd Registered 2. Academy of Financial Markets 2 3. Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie (Die) Provisionally Registered 4. Business School of the Netherlands South Africa (Pty) Ltd Total 5. Cedar College of Education 25 6. Cape Bible Training Centre 7. Centre for Creative Education 8. Complementary Health Centre 9. Durban Computer College (Pty) Ltd t/a DCC Campus 10. Giyani College of Technology and Management 11. Graduate Academy of South Africa 12. Haute Couture (Provisionally registered - did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar; reasons provided in Table 2 below) 13. Imperial Underwood Campus 14. Jill Farquharson College of Physical and Beauty Therapy 15. Lowveld Tertiary College (Provisionally Registered – did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by Registrar; reasons provided in Table 2 below) 16. Northern Cape Careers College 17. Madge Wallace (Pretoria) (Pty) Ltd. 18. Midrand Graduate Institute (Pty) Ltd t/a MGI 19. Monash South Africa 20. Promat College of Education 21. Sonett International Academy (Pty) Ltd 22. St. Augustine College of South Africa 23. St John Vianney Seminary 24. Stellenbosch Academy of Health and Skin Care Therapy 25. Train-A-Child 2000 37 1. Allenby Campus Registered 2. Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa 7 3. Beautiko Academy of Beauty Provisionally Registered 4. Bethel College (Provisional- converted to full registration in Total 2001) 44 5. Bond South Africa (Provisional converted to full registration in 2000) 6. Centre for Logistics Excellence (Pty) Ltd 7. Camelot International Pty (Ltd) 8. Cape Town Baptist Seminary 9. Centre for Urban Theological Studies 10. City Varsity t/a Film & Television & Multimedia School (Provisional converted to full registration on in 2001) 11. College Campus (Provisional converted to full registration in 2000) 12. College of Vocational Studies 13.RS 23 Computer College South Africa (Pty) Ltd. 14. Cornerstone Christian College 15. Contemporary Music College 16. Cranefield Graduate School of Management (Pty) Ltd. t/a Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management 17. Damelin (Pty) Ltd 18. Design School Southern Africa (The) 19. Durban College of Management and Economics 20. Durbanville College (Pty) Ltd 21. Evangelies-Gereformeerde Bybelkollege 22. Exercise Teachers Academy 23. Full Gospel Church of God College 24. Greenside Design Centre College of Design (Pty) Ltd t/a Design Centre College of Design 25. IMM Graduate School of Marketing 26. Inscape Design College (Pty) Ltd 27. MANCOSA (Pty) Ltd t/a Management College of Southern Africa 28. MSC Private College 29. Natural Health and Beauty College cc 30. New Africa Theatre Association 31. Open Window (Pty) Ltd t/a The Open Window School of Visual Communication 32. Oval International Computer Education cc 33. Production Management Institute of Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd (Provisional converted to full registration on in 2000) 34. Potchefstroom Akademie (Pty) Ltd 35. Pinnacle Business College 36. Primarius Privaat Kollege (Pty) Ltd 37. Professional Colleges of Southern Africa (PCSA) 38. PRISA Education and Training Centre 39. Rosebank College (Provisional converted to full registration on 16 November 2000) 40. Southern Africa Bible College 41. Studium Philosophicum 42. Tremar Training College 43. Varsity College (Provisional converted to full registration on 6 June 2001) 44. Vega, The School of Brand Communications 2001 30 1. Academy of Advanced Technology Registered 2. Academy of Learning 3 3. Bible Institute Eastern Cape Provisionally 4. Centurion Akademie (Pty) Ltd Registered 5. Christian Reformed Theological Total Seminary 33 6. CIDA City Campus (Provisional converted to full registration in 2008) 7. College of Marketing and Sales Management 8. Credo College (Provisional -did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar) 9. Durban Christian Centre 10.Gauteng School of Management Training Centre (Pty) Ltd (Provisional- converted to full registration on 12 December 2002) 11.Global Training (Pty) Ltd t/a Prestige Academy 12. Health and Fitness Professionals Association (Pty) Ltd t/a Health and Fitness Training College (Pty) Ltd 13. Hebron Theological College 14. Helderberg College 15 International Academy of Health and Skincare cc 16. ICESA City Campus (Pty) Ltd 17. International Hotel School (Pty) Ltd. 18. International Trade Institute of Southern Africa 19. Lyceum College (Pty Ltd 20. Maccauvlei Training and Conference Centre 21.Mediatek Training Institute 22.Mentornet (Pty) Ltd 23.Nazarene Theological College 24. South African Theological Seminary 25. Regenesys Management (Pty) Ltd 26. South African Theological Seminary 27. Southern Business School 28. South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance (Pty) Ltd t/a AFDA (The) 29. Regent Business School 30. Southern Business School 31. Success College 32. Yaraka School of Holistic Therapies 33. City Varsity (converted from provisional registration) 2002 7 1. Bantori Business College (Pty) Ltd (Provisional- did not obtain full Registered registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar) 13 2. Birnam Business College (Pty) Ltd Provisionally (Provisional- did not obtain full Registered registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar in 2004) Total 20 3. Durban Institute of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (Pty) Ltd (Provisional - did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar in 2005) 4. College of Production Technology (Pty) Ltd (Provisional converted to full registration on 30 June 2002) 5. Columbus Commercial College (Pty) Ltd (Provisional - did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar in 2006) 6. Educational Institute for Service Studies International (Pty) Ltd (Provisional - converted to full registration on 6 March 2007) 7. Ed-U City Campus (Pty) Ltd 8. Hampton College t/a Hampton Community College (Provisional- did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar in 2004) 9. Foundation for Professional Development (Pty) Ltd (Provisional converted to full registration on 1 October 2007) 10.Gauteng School of Management Training Centre (Pty) Ltd 11.Graduate Institute of Management and Technology (Pty) Ltd 12. Linea Academy (Pty) Ltd t/a LA (Provisional) 13. LISOF 14. National Electronic Media Institute 15. Pax Commercial College (Pty) Ltd (Provisional- did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled by the Registrar in 2004) 16. School of Complementary Health 17. South African College of Complementary Therapies cc (Provisional- converted to full registration on 12 December 2002) 18. School of Effective Reflexology Methods (Pty) Ltd (Provisional converted to full registration on 6 February 2006) 19. School of Hand and Foot Reflexology (Pty) Ltd (Provisional registration - converted to full registration on 12 December 2006) 20. Training for Management Trust 2003 1 1. Belgium Campus I t/a The Belgium Campus Registered 2. Boston City Campus and Business 4 College (Pty) Ltd Provisionally 3.Evangelical Seminary of Southern Registered Africa (Provisional converted to full registration on 19 September 2007) Total 4. Patrick Commercial College (Pty) 5 Ltd (Provisional- did not obtain full registration as registration was cancelled