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Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: final proposed amendments
30 Oct 2018
The Department of Transport took the Committee through the working draft of the Road Accident Benefit Scheme clause by clause noting all the proposed amendments that had been effected for its approval. Members agreed to the proposed amendments and there were no substantive changes proposed and effected further. DoT also ...
Higher Education
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. ...
Higher Education
Student-centred fees model & outstanding allowances: progress report by NSFAS, DHET, USAf, SACPO, SAUS, SAFETSA; with Minister
30 May 2018
The Committee was briefed on progress in the roll-out of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) student-centred model, and the payment of outstanding allowances to students. The entities which provided details of the wide-ranging challenges they faced, as well as recommendations to resolve troublesome areas, were NSFAS, the Department ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 1
16 May 2018
The Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill was subjected to considerable criticism from representatives of the legal and medical professions during public hearings conducted by the Portfolio Committee on Transport, with some suggestions that it was inferior to the Road Accident Fund (RAF) scheme it was supposed to replace.
The ...
Higher Education
Higher Education Committee Reports
9 May 2018
The Committee adopted reports and minutes of meetings held.
The Committee was concerned with the issue of Gender Based Violence and asked if there was anything the Committee could do about this because this issue required serious attention. The Chairperson said the students should be invited to the meeting as ...
Transport
Department of Transport budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Content adviser briefed the Committee on observations and recommendations contained in the Annual Performance Plan. Those were related to non-adherence of targets to SMART principles; board vacancies in entities; implementation of road safety programmes; plans for legislation submitted in the outer years of the Medium Term Strategic Framework; the ...
Transport
Second Term Committee Programme
2 May 2018
The House Chairperson instructed that all the bills from 2013 up until 2017 must be finalised before the end of the third quarter. The Committee needed to look at its own programme so as to be able to keep up with the instruction of Parliament.
The Committee noted that it ...
Higher Education
Community Education and Training (CET) latest developments: Department briefing
2 May 2018
The Department of Higher Education and Training updated the Committee on progress and challenges within the Community Education and Training sector. Areas highlighted were the budget and expenditure of the branch, infrastructure at centres, monitoring and oversight at centres, progress made towards sustainable governance structures and improving the capacity of ...
Higher Education
Transformation at Public Universities in South Africa: SAHRC Report
25 Apr 2018
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) presented its transformation report to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education. The presentation included the rationale behind conducting national hearings leading up to the report, key findings that were made and recommendations to institutions on how to accelerate transformation. Areas of concern included ...
Higher Education
SAQA & Quality Council for Trades and Occupations 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
19 Apr 2018
The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) gave the Committee a brief background on the mandate of the QCTO which included Quality Assurance as a significant part. The QCTO sent an invitation to meet with the current the Minister of Higher Education in helping to bring the mandate together. ...