Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance

University of Venda

What we do - IPQA Units

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Institutional Planning

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Management Information System

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Quality Assurance

About IPQA

The Directorate of Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance (IPQA) at the University of Venda (UNIVEN) was established in 2007. At UNIVEN Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance are one directorate. The model conforms to current global practices where university-wide planning and quality assurance activities are integrated. Both strive towards enhancing an effective and credible university. They represent common activities that strengthen each other and allow the university to carry out its core function of teaching and learning, research, and community engagement. The significance of this directorate cannot be over-emphasized, considering the increasingly complex planning and quality control challenges that confront higher education institutions throughout the world.

Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance functions have become matters of great importance for universities around the world. In South Africa, responsibilities and activities of Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance are strongly informed by the statutory reporting requirements of universities to bodies such as the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC); as well as the national call for Universities to contribute to higher education policy analysis and development.

Mandate

The IPQA Directorate plays an advisory role to the Vice Chancellor, also executing ad-hoc assignments as delegated by the Vice Chancellor and also to facilitate Institutional Planning, Quality Assurance and Management Information Systems policies and processes that drive decisions and actions aimed at achieving sustainable levels of effectiveness in teaching and learning, research and community engagement.

Much of the work of the IPQA happens at a departmental level with the collaboration amongst the three units of the department.

Vision

Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance will be the foundation and rationale for all decisions and actions aimed at realizing the vision and mission of the university.

Mission

Within the framework of the University’s vision and mission, this directorate promotes and facilitates strategic plans, quality assurance and management information system strategies which guide decisions and actions of the university.

Policies and Documents - MIS Portal

Quality Assurance and Self-Evaluation Review workshop in the higher education landscape, ‘Lessons from Stellenbosch University’

8 months ago
The Directorate of Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance (IPQA) held a Workshop on Quality Assurance and Self-Evaluation Review (SER) concept...
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UNIVEN Admission Scam Notice

January 10, 2023
Members of the public in particular prospective students are informed that there is a notice of a scam doing rounds...
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First Announcement: Higher Education Conference

June 23, 2022
The Council on Higher Education will be hosting a Higher Education Conference in March 2023 under theme ‘Promoting access to,...
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Council on Higher Education (CHE) conducts institutional audit site visit at UNIVEN

May 30, 2022
Many months of hard work in preparing for the Council on Higher Education (CHE) institutional audit site visit, culminated in...
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Dr Sannah Patience Mativandlela

Dr Sannah Patience Mativandlela

Designation: Director
Tel: +27 15 962 8515
Fax: +27 15 962 8824
Email: Sannah.Mativandlela@univen.ac.za

Mrs Nelwamondo Mulalo Royal

Mrs Nelwamondo Mulalo Royal

Office Manager

Designation: Office Manager
Tel: +27 15 962 8515
Fax: +27 15 962 8824
Email: mulalon@univen.ac.za, IPQA@univen.ac.za
Directorate of Institutional, Planning and Quality Assurance Staff
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Dr Sannah Patience Nkami Mativandlela – Director, Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance
Dr Sannah Patience Nkami Mativandlela – Director, Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance
Dr Sannah Patience Nkami Mativandlela joined the University of Venda (UNIVEN) as the Director: Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance with effect from 01 August 2021. She obtained her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science Honours degrees at UNIVEN. She further obtained her PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Pretoria, and Management Development certificate from Stellenbosch University. During her post-doctoral tenure, she received the 2009-2010 Department of Science and Technology / National Research Foundation scholarship award to study the in vitro and in vivo drug discovery models at the Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Georgia, United States of America. 

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