2. STUDENT SUCCESS, operationally defined as: Enhanced student learning with a view to increasing the number of graduates with attributes that are personally, professionally and socially valuable. Focus of the Quality Enhancement Project (QEP)

3. 1.Improving the quality of undergraduate educational provision; 2.Improving the number of quality graduates; 3.Developing a higher education system that is improving continuously as members of the higher education community collaborate to share good practices and solve shared problems. Goals of the QEP

4. Both institutionally-based activities and centrally coordinated Institutional enhancement HE system enhancement

5. Role players DVCs CHE HEIs QE reps HESA SAAIR HELTASA PROF BODIES

6. Institutional submissions Analysis Feedback Collaboration Analysis Symposia, working groups Projects of other bodies Institutional capacity development Research projects Select focus areas Individual Institutional feedback Feedback Institutional reports Process

7. Institutional QE CommitteeQE Forum DVCs meetings PHASE 1 and PHASE 2 1.Select focus areas 2.Institutional submissions 3.Analysis 4.Collaborative group meetings 5.Analysis 6.Institutional reports 7.Analysis 8.Institutional feedback Spin-off activities

8. Feb- DVCs meeting, 3 QA forums Mar and Apr- advisory committee meetings May and June- four focus group meetings with 8 HEIs Aug- 3 regional symposia with Vincent Tinto (820 people) Sept and Oct- revise draft framework, get HEQC approval Nov- DVCs meeting Dec- submit draft framework to CHE Council QEP Activities in 2013

9. Focus areas for Phase 1 Enhancing university teachers Including professional development, reward and recognition, workload, conditions of service and performance appraisal. Enhancing student support and development Including career and curriculum advising, life and academic skills development, counselling, student performance monitoring and referral. Enhancing the learning environment Including teaching and learning spaces, ICT infrastructure and access, technology-enabled tools and resources, library facilities. Enhancing course and programme enrolment management Including admissions, selection, placement, readmission refusal, pass rates in gateway courses, throughput rates, management information systems.

10. Schedule of main activities (2014-2016)