Education and the Quantity Surveying profession

AMENDED ACCREDITATION POLICY OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

We are pleased to advise that the SACQSP has finalised and agreed the revised Accreditation Policy documents. This outcome followed a process of review, of making amendments and finally the formal adoption by the full SACQSP Council. These are the documents that will determine the basis of all future accreditation visits to tertiary institutions (whether currently accredited by the SACQSP or not). Registered persons are thus encouraged to study these documents very carefully to ensure that the planning towards future accreditation visits is correctly focused and structured. Failure to do so may simply lead to unnecessary effort and time wastage.

The following documents may be viewed and downloaded from the links below:

• SACQSP Accreditation Policy
• SACQSP Accreditation Submission Template
• SACQSP Accreditation Policy- Appendix A
• SACQSP Accreditation Policy - Appendix B
• Combined document containing the policy, appendices and template
• Standards Accreditation activity scheduling (Revised 16 Oct 2007)

Of particular interest should be the contents of Appendix B, which sets out the provisional programme of events that the SACQSP is obliged to follow so as to comply with the requirements of the CHE/HEQC in terms of the obligatory accreditation of all tertiary institutions. Please take particular note of these time frames.

For more information regarding education within the profession contact the EduTech Director Mr Hoffie Cruywagen by e-mail or at:

The EduTech Centre
P.O. Box 3527
Halfway House 1685
Telephone : 011-3154140
Fax : 011-3153785

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