What we do - IPQA Units
Institutional Planning
Management Information System
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
UNIVEN Admission Scam Notice
First Announcement: Higher Education Conference
Council on Higher Education (CHE) conducts institutional audit site visit at UNIVEN
Invitation To Participate In Institutional Audit by Council on Higher Education (CHE)
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
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
Name: Dr. Shannah Patience Nkami Mativandlela
Designation: Director: Institutional Planning And
Qualification: DIP (MAKHADO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION), BSC (University of Venda Production), MAD (UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA), BSCHON (University of Venda Production), DPHIL (UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: sannah.mativandlela@univen.ac.za
Office: Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mrs Mulalo Royal Nelwamondo
Designation: Executive Secretary
Qualification: N3 (GREENSIDE DESIGN CENTRE COLLEGE), N4 (GREENSIDE DESIGN CENTRE COLLEGE), DIP (VHEMBE FET COLLEGE), DPOMNT (SOUTHERN BUSINESS SCHOOL), MAD (TSWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
Telephone: 0159628596
Email: mulalo.nelwamondo@univen.ac.za
Office: TOWN PLANNING & POST GRAD Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Zolani Fana
Designation: Hemis Officer 7
Qualification: GRD 12 (LOCAL SECONDARY SHOOL), NAT (WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: zolani.fana@univen.ac.za
Office: STUDENT ADMINISTRATION Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mrs Livhuwani Baloyi
Designation: Institutional Planning Officer
Qualification: GRD 12 (University of Venda Production), BCOHON (University of Venda Production), MAD (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO), BECON (University of Venda Production)
Telephone: 0159628748
Email: Livhuwani.Mulelu@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF LAW BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Mpfariseni Emmanuel Thagwana
Designation: Institutional Planning Officer
Qualification: GRD 12 (LOCAL SECONDARY SHOOL), PDIP (UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL), BAGRIC (University of Venda Production)
Telephone: 0159628737
Email: emmanuel.thagwana@univen.ac.za
Office: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Lufuno Phillip Netshifhefhe
Designation: Head: Quality Assurance
Qualification: GRD 12 (LOCAL SECONDARY SHOOL), HED (RHODES UNIVERSITY), MADMIN (University of Venda Production), BECON (University of Venda Production)
Telephone: 0159628750
Email: lufuno.netshifhefhe@univen.ac.za
Office: BIOKINETICS & PHYSIOTHERAPY Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Shadrack Tebello Mofokeng
Designation: Head: Mangt Infor Systems Specialist/
Qualification: NAT (CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY), BTECH (CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: Tebello.Mofokeng@univen.ac.za
Office: STUDENT ADMINISTRATION Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Aifheli Peter Nemathaga
Designation: Management Information Sysytems Speciali
Qualification: MSC (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA), BCOHON (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: aifheli.nemathaga@univen.ac.za
Office: STUDENT ADMINISTRATION Building, Office Number , Floor Number
Name: Mr Nkgari Kholofelo Shaku
Designation: Head : Institutional Compliance
Qualification: BA (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO), BAHON (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO)
Telephone: 0159628219
Email: kholofelo.shaku@univen.ac.za
Office: TOWN PLANNING & POST GRAD Building, Office Number , Floor Number
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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.
She has over 15 years of unique blend of research and development experience. She brings her senior managerial expertise for effective management operating system, strategic administration initiatives, policy research, policy drafts and implementation, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies with an ability to coordinate and manage allocated aspects of organisation’s management programmes, knowledge support, quality systems, design systems and operational solutions.
Before joining UNIVEN, Dr Mativandlela was the Director for Strategic Administration and Initiatives at the University of Johannesburg. She also worked as a Specialist Scientist, Research Team Manager and a Senior Manager at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) respectively. She was the secretariat and facilitated the Pathology Research Development (PathReD) biennial conference for the medical scientists, pathologists and public health medical registrars at NHLS.
Her short-term goal is continuous contribution using her ideas and becoming an authority in the educational sector with a long-term goal of taking a bigger leadership role, responsibilities and interacting with multiple-disciplinary sectors globally.
“I regard myself as a leader who focus on goal-oriented objectives, an advisor and committed to the work ethics, good governance by creating relationships based on mutual trust and understanding within a broad team, prioritise delivery of quality programmes, and take up the challenges in fulfilling all my responsibilities”.
Tel: +27 15 962 8515
Fax: +27 15 962 8824
Email: Sannah.Mativandlela@univen.ac.za
