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Edition:
14 March 2007
(I) GLOSSARY
Effective registration for a course
Effective registration for a qualification
Full‑time
equivalent staff member
Permanent/temporary employment status
Qualification requirement status
An area of specialisation is a field of study (as
defined through the 2nd level of the Classification of Education
Subject Matter or CESM classification) in which a
student intends to specialise in his/her program of studies for a particular qualification.
A student may intend to
specialise in more than one field, and therefore can have more than one area of
specialisation.
Areas of
specialisation are sometimes referred to as "majors" or "major
subjects" or
“major fields of study”.
The area of
specialisation is determined at the beginning of each academic year when a
student either registers or re-registers for a qualification.
See "Course
delivery mode".
See "Effective
registration in a course".
The collection year for the student collection is the
calendar year 1 January to 31 December of the year in which the first
submission files are normally provided to the Department of Education.
The collection year
for the staff collection is the calendar year 1 January to 31 December in the
year prior to provision of data to the Department of Education.
See "Course
delivery mode".
A course is a component within a programme of study
for a qualification. It has these characteristics:
(a) It is an identifiable teaching/learning component that may be
undertaken in more than a year, in a year or semester or shorter period.
(b) Student performance in the component
is assessed and recorded in the central record system.
(c) The component has a unique identifying
"course code" which is assigned to it in the institution's central
record system.
A course may be a
component undertaken as coursework, or as a project, or as a thesis, or as a
dissertation, or as a practicum, or as a mixture of such types.
The course approval status of a course
is either approved or not approved:
Approved: the course is one which appears in at least one
curriculum for a qualification and an area of specialisation, which have both
been approved by the Minister of Education for subsidy purposes
Not approved: the course is
one which does not appear in any curriculum for a qualification and area of
specialisation which have both been approved by the Minister of Education.
The mode of a course describes
the method of delivery of teaching/learning:
Contact mode: The course
involves personal interaction with institutional teachers or institutional
supervisors, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, practicals, supervision, or
other forms of required work, and occurs at the institution's premises or a
site of the institution.
Distance mode: The interaction with institutional teachers or
institutional supervisors is undertaken through "distance education"
techniques (eg through the use correspondence, telematics, or the internet).
Mixed mode: the interaction with institutional teachers or
institutional supervisors is undertaken through a mixture of contact and
distance modes.
Some "distance
education" courses involve a student undertaking most of his/her studies
through distance mode but he/she is also required to attend intensive short
sessions at an institution's site. Such courses are to be treated as "mixed
mode".
Where a course
involves mainly a thesis, dissertation, research project, other project or a
practicum, the attendance mode relates to the mode through which the student
interacts with institutional teachers or supervisors. While a student may be undertaking research
work, project work or a practicum away from an institution's premises, and may
be given guidance by a person other than his/her institutional teachers or supervisors, this
does not in itself mean that the course is being undertaken by distance mode.
This is the student's status in terms of the completion
of a course, as determined at a particular point
of time, taking into account all examination information which is available at that
time.
If the data are reported in the second submission, the date at which the
status is to be determined is 31 March of the year after the reporting period.
If the data are reported in the third submission, the date at which the status is to be determined is 30 June of the year after the reporting period.
See "Course
delivery mode".
The credit value of a course is
the fraction which it constitutes of a full-time curriculum in a year of study
of a specific qualification.
The credit value for
a course may vary depending on the qualification for
which it is being undertaken by a student.
The method for
calculating credit values in universities is explained in Section
J of this documentation. It should
be noted that the procedures in that appendix vary from the method used in 1998
for the SAPSE tables in the following respects:
The calculation for year n of
credit values for
courses which appear in the curricula of undergraduate
qualifications and for courses which appear in the non-research curricula of postgraduate qualifications must
be based on the curricula of students completing all the requirements for the
qualification in year n-1. The
previous requirement that the curricula analysed be that of the qualifiers of
year n no longer applies.
The calculation for year n of the credit
values of courses which appear in the research curricula of postgraduate
qualifications must be based on the average number of years taken by students
completing the requirements of the qualification in years
n-1, n-2 and n-3. The previous requirement that
this average be that for years n, n-1 and n-2 no
longer applies.
For the time being,
the credit values for technikon courses will be as specified in SAPSE report
151. In future collections, the method
for calculating credit values in technikons may be changed along the lines of
those to be used in universities.
This classification of a course is based on an
assessment of the intended level of complexity of the material associated with the course or the
level of comprehension required of students taking the course. Course level categories are not dependent on
the year of study of the curriculum in which courses to be classified appear.
For University courses, the following levels apply:
Pre-tertiary: courses usually associated with secondary school or lower
offerings.
Lower
undergraduate: courses which require a level of comprehension normally
associated only with undergraduate
diplomas or certificates.
Intermediate
undergraduate: courses which require a level of comprehension normally associated with a general academic
first bachelor’s degree.
Higher
undergraduate: courses which require a level of
comprehension normally associated with the fourth or subsequent years of a
professional first bachelor’s degree.
Preparatory
postgraduate: postgraduate courses which require a level of
comprehension normally associated with general academic first bachelor’s
degrees or with undergraduate diplomas
or certificates.
Lower
postgraduate: courses which require a level of comprehension
normally associated with honours degrees.
Intermediate
postgraduate (non-research): courses offered at a level of comprehension
normally associated with masters degrees and which are not part of a research project.
Intermediate
postgraduate (research): research courses at a level of comprehension
normally associated with masters degrees.
Higher
postgraduate (non-research): non-research courses offered at a level of
comprehension normally associated with a doctoral degree.
Higher
postgraduate (research): research courses at a level of comprehension normally
associated with a doctoral degree.
For Technikon/University of
Technology courses,
the following levels apply:
Pre-tertiary: courses usually related to secondary school or lower offerings.
Lower
prediplomate (level 1): first year higher education courses at the level of comprehension of a national
certificate.
Lower
prediplomate (level 2): second year higher education courses at the level
of comprehension of a national higher certificate and for which a level 1 course is a pre-requisite.
Intermediate
prediplomate (level 3): third year higher education courses for which
a level 2 course is a pre-requisite.
Preparatory
postdiplomate (level 4): courses for which a first diploma is a
minimum entry requirement.
Lower
postdiplomate (level 4):
fourth year higher
education courses for which a level 3 course is a pre-requisite.
Higher undergraduate
(level 4): fourth year
higher education courses for which a level 3 course is a pre-requisite.
Intermediate
postdiplomate or
postgraduate (non-research) (level 5): fifth year
higher education non-research courses for which a level 4 course is a
pre-requisite.
Intermediate
postdiplomate or postgraduate (research) (level 5): fifth year
higher education
research courses for which a level 4 course is a pre-requisite.
Higher
postdiplomate or postgraduate
(non-research) (level 7): seventh
year higher education courses for which a level 5 course is a pre-requisite.
Higher
postdiplomate or postgraduate (research) (level 7): seventh year higher education research courses for
which a level 5 course is a pre-requisite.
See "Course
delivery mode".
EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION FOR A COURSE
An effective registration by a student for a course exists when all these criteria have been met:
(a) On a course census date determined by
the institution, the course is an approved component of the student's approved
curriculum.
(b) On that course census date the student
is still entitled to be undertaking the course, has not officially withdrawn
from the course and has not been officially excluded from the course.
(c) The course census date lies within a
set period:
the start
date for the set period is first teaching day for the course plus 1/3 of the
number of teaching days in the course, and
the end date
for the set period is the first teaching day for the course plus 2/3 of the
number of teaching days in the course.
EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION FOR A QUALIFICATION
An effective registration by a person for a qualification at the institution exists when all
these criteria have been met:
(a) The person satisfies the statutory
entry requirements for admission to a formally approved qualification offered
by the institution.
(b) At 1 January of the Collection Year
the person was officially enrolled in the qualification, or during the period 1
January through 31 December of the collection year the person became officially
enrolled in the qualification.
(c) During the period 1 January through 31
December of the Collection Year the person was effectively registered in at
least one course which is a part of the curriculum for the qualification.
Conditions of
registration are determined by the institution.
The employment commencement year is the year in which a
staff member commenced working at the
institution (as defined in this glossary) for his/her most recent period of
unbroken period of employment, regardless of staff rank or employment status
(permanent/temporary status, full-time/part-time status).
See "Permanent/temporay
employment status"..
This classifies the status of a person in terms of prior
qualifications and experience at the institution and elsewhere:
(a) First-time entering student: this is a person who is of
either of these types:
First
time entering undergraduate or prediplomate: The person
(a) is effectively registered in the collection period for an undergraduate or prediplomate course and (b) in the
past has not been effectively registered in any higher education course at the
institution or any other higher education institution.
First-time
entering postgraduate or postdiplomate: The person (a) is effectively
registered in the collection period for a postgraduate or postdiploma course
and (b) in the past has not been effectively registered for a postgraduate or
postdiploma course at the institution or at any other higher education institution.
(b) Transfer student:
this is a person who is of either of these types:
Transfer
undergraduate or prediplomate: The person: (a) is effectively registered in
the reporting period for an undergraduate or prediplomate course, (b) has not
at any time in the past been effectively registered at the institution for any
higher education course,
but (c) has at some time in the past been effectively registered
for a higher education course at some other higher education institution.
Transfer
postgraduate or postdiplomate: The person: (a) is effectively registered in
the reporting period for a postgraduate or postdiploma course and (b) has not
been effectively registered for a postgraduate or postdiploma course at the
institution, but (c) at some time in the past has been effectively registered
for a postgraduate or postdiploma course at some other institution.
(c) Entering student: this is a person who
is of either of these types:
Entering
undergraduate or prediplomate: The person: (a) is effectively registered in
the reporting period for an undergraduate qualification, (b) has been
effectively registered at some time in the past at the institution for some
higher education course, but (c) is now effectively registered for a
qualification which he/she has not followed at any time in the past at the
institution.
Entering
postgraduate or postdiplomate: The person: (a) is effectively registered in
the reporting period for a postgraduate degree or postgraduate diploma or postdiploma
diploma, (b) has been effectively registered at some time in the past at the
institution for some higher education course, but (c) is following a qualification
for which he/she has not been effectively registered at any time in the past at
the institution.
(d) Non-entering student: this is a person who is of either of these
types:
Non-entering
undergraduate or prediplomate: The person: (a) is effectively registered in
the reporting period for an undergraduate or prediplomate qualification, and
(b) is effectively registered for a qualification for which he/she was
previously effectively registered at the institution.
Non-entering
postgraduate or postdiplomate: The person:
(a) is effectively registered for a postgraduate degree or postgraduate
diploma or postdiploma diploma, and (b) has been effectively registered at some
time in the past at the institution for that qualification.
An organisation, agency or company which is neither
(a) a part of the university or technikon in a legal sense, nor (b) a related entity (as defined in this glossary).
See "Full-time equivalent
staff member".
FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT
STAFF MEMBER
A full-time equivalent (FTE) staff member is
equivalent to a staff member who works at the institution for a full year on a full-time basis.
If a staff member
undertakes work on a number of programmes, the FTE
value reported in respect of each programme would be less than 1,0. However, for a staff member who works for a
full year on a full-time basis, the FTE values aggregated across all the
programmes worked on would normally be 1,0.
The FTE value
reported for a staff member aggregated across all the programmes worked on will
be less than 1,0 in the following circumstances:
(a) The staff member had a part-time employment status. In such circumstances, the FTE value will be
an appropriate proportion of 1,0.
(b) The staff member had a full-time employment status for less than the
full collection year (e.g. he/she commenced after the start of the collection
year or left before the end of the collection year).
(c) The staff member took unpaid leave for
part of the collection year.
(d) The staff member was absent for part of
the collection year on a secondment to an external
organisation (as defined in this glossary) which was funded by the external
organisation. (If the secondment was
funded by the institution, then the FTE value relating to the secondment is to
be counted is if the person was working in the institution or related entity.)
(e) The staff member had a joint
appointment. In this case, the FTE value
to be reported by the institution is only that part which relates to the work
undertaken for the institution.
The following types
of absences are NOT to be taken as reducing the FTE value for a staff
member: sick leave, long leave,
sabbatical leave, maternity leave, study leave, military leave, and secondments
funded by the institution. Irrespective
of the length of such absences, the FTE value for a staff member who is
employed for a full year on a full-time basis would be equal to 1,0.
The calculation of an
FTE value is NOT to have regard for the amount of "overtime" incurred
or teaching load.
If a staff member has
a number of separate contractual appointments within the institution, it may be
possible for the FTE aggregated across those appointments to exceed 1.0, but
this would be an exceptional event.
The full-time/part-time status of a staff member is determined by the institution in accordance with its contractual
requirements for employment.
See "Staff programme".
For the purposes of the staff collection,
"institution" refers to the university or technikon plus any "related entity" (as defined in this glossary).
This is the housing stock which is under the control
of the institutional council. It includes the student
housing owned or leased by the institution, into which it places students under
conditions and/or rules approved by the
institutional council.
A joint appointment is one that involves a person
being a staff member of the institution
and at the same time being a staff member of another entity which is not
controlled by the institution. These
appointments are normally implemented through terms of a partnership agreement
between the institution and the other entity.
Examples of such other entities are hospitals and other higher education
institutions.
Minimum number of study years approved by the Minister
of Education for a qualification of a university
or a technikon:
Minimum
total time: the minimum total of years of study required
for the completion of the qualification.
Minimum
experiential time: the minimum total of years of study required
to complete the experiential learning components of the qualification.
Minimum
formal time: the minimum total time less minimum
experiential time.
Some examples of the approved minimum study times of
qualifications:
Degree |
Minimum total time (years) |
Minimum experiential time
(years) |
Minimum formal time
(years) |
BA |
3 |
0 |
3 |
BA (Ed.) |
4 |
0 |
4 |
MBChB |
6 |
1.1 |
4.9 |
BArch |
6 |
1 |
5 |
MA (Clinical Psychology) |
2 |
1 |
1 |
See "Course
delivery mode".
This is the status which a student has in relation to the
national student
financial aid scheme
run by TEFSA. The eligibility criteria are those set by
the institution with the approval of TEFSA.
The award decision is that taken by the institution itself.
This is a person who satisfies the statutory
requirements for entry into a formally approved qualification
offered by the institution, who is effectively
registered for an approved course, but who is not registered for an approved
qualification.
PERMANENT/TEMPORARY
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
A person is a permanent staff member if he/she
contributes to an approved retirement fund of the institution.
All other persons are
to be classified as having temporary employment status.
The personnel category indicates the type of duties to
be undertaken in a position which a staff member
currently occupies in the institution, and the
qualifications and experience normally required by the incumbent of that
position. The duties, qualifications and
experience referred to relate to those of the position, not to the
duties, qualifications and experience of the staff member who is actually
occupying the position.
The personnel
categories are:
Instruction/research
professional: A position in which (a) at least 50% of time is spent on
instruction and/or research activities, and (b) the position requires a higher
education qualification equivalent to at least 4 years of higher education
study.
Executive/administrative/managerial
professional: A position in which (a) the primary function is the management
of the institution or one of its major divisions or sections, and (b) the position requires an educational
attainment equivalent to at least 4 years of higher education study.
Specialist/support
professional: A position in which (a) there are no major managerial
responsibilities and (b) the primary function
is the provision of academic or institutional or student support services, and
(c) the position requires an educational
attainment equivalent to at least 4 years of higher education study.
Technical: A position in which (a) the primary function is undertaking technical
duties (mainly in laboratories), and (b) the position requires a qualification
equivalent to three years of higher education study (e.g. a 3-year diploma from
a technikon or a 3-year bachelors degree).
Nonprofessional
administration: A position in which (a) the primary function is clerical, secretarial or administrative duties, and (b) an educational attainment equivalent to 4
years of higher education study is NOT required.
Crafts/trades: A position in which the primary function is manually skilled activities
in a craft or trade.
Service: A position in which the primary function is unskilled activities.
See Staff programme.
A qualification is the degree, diploma or certificate
which an institution awards to a student on the
successful completion of a programme of studies.
Qualifications are
placed in 2 categories:
Approved: those approved by the Minister of Education for
government subsidy purposes.
Not
approved: those not
approved by the Minister of Education for government subsidy purposes
QUALIFICATION
REQUIREMENT STATUS
This is a student's status in terms of the completion of
all the academic requirements for a qualification,
as determined at a particular point of time, taking into account all
examination information and other relevant information which is available at
that time.
If the data are
reported in the second submission, the date at which the status is to be
determined is 15 March of the year after the reporting period.
If the data are
reported in the third submission, the date at which the status is to be
determined is 30 June of the year after the reporting period.
The
qualifications of Universities are classified in the following ways:
University
undergraduate certificate: a qualification which has a minimum duration
of less than 3 years and which does not have a bachelor’s degree or diploma as an entry requirement
University undergraduate
diploma: a qualification which normally has a minimum duration of 3 years
and has a grade 12 pass or equivalent as a minimum entry requirement.
General
academic first bachelor’s degree: a qualification which has a minimum duration of 3 years and which has a grade 12 pass with matriculation exemption as
a minimum entry requirement.
Professional
first bachelor’s degree: a qualification which has a minimum duration of 4 or
more years and which has a grade 12 pass with matriculation exemption as a
minimum entry requirement.
Postdiploma
diploma: a qualification which has either a university
or a technikon diploma as a minimum entry requirement and which has a minimum
duration of 1 year.
Postgraduate
certificate: a qualification which has a bachelor’s degree as a
minimum entry requirement and which has a minimum duration of 1 year or less.
Postgraduate
diploma: a qualification which has a first bachelor’s degree as a
minimum entry requirement and which has a minimum duration of 1 year.
Postgraduate
bachelor’s degree: a qualification which has a first bachelor’s degree as
a minimum entry requirement and has a minimum duration of either 1 or 2 years.
Honours degree: a qualification which has a first bachelor’s degree
as a minimum entry requirement and has a minimum duration of 1 year.
Master’s
degree: a
qualification which has either a
first bachelor’s degree or an honours degree as a minimum
entry requirement, which is of a level higher than that of an honours degree
and which has a minimum duration of 1 year.
Doctoral
degree: a qualification which has either an honours or
master’s degree as a minimum entry requirement, which is of a level higher than
a master’s degree and which has a minimum
duration of 2 years.
The qualifications of Technikons/Universities of
Technology are classified in the
following ways:
National
certificate: a qualification which has a grade 12 pass as a minimum
entry requirement and which has a minimum duration of 1 year.
National
higher certificate: a qualification which has (a) a minimum duration of 2 years with a grade 12 pass as a minimum entry
requirement or (b) a minimum duration of 1 year with a national certificate as
a minimum entry requirement.
National
diploma: a qualification which has (a) a minimum duration of 3 years with a
grade 12 pass as a minimum entry requirement or (b) a minimum duration
of 1 year with a national higher
certificate as a minimum entry requirement.
Postdiploma
diploma: a qualification which has
a national diploma as a minimum entry
requirement and a minimum duration of 1 year.
National
higher diploma: a qualification which has (a) a minimum duration of 4
years with a grade 12 pass as a minimum
entry requirement or (b) a minimum duration of 1 year with a national diploma
as a minimum entry requirement.
Baccalaureus
technologiae degree: a qualification which has (a) a minimum
duration of 4 years with a grade
12 pass as a minimum entry requirement or (b) a minimum duration of 1
year with a national diploma as a minimum entry requirement.
Master’s
diploma in technology: a qualification which has (a) a minimum duration of 5 years with a
grade 12 pass as a minimum entry requirement or (b) a minimum duration of 1 year with a national
higher diploma as a minimum entry requirement.
Magister
technologiae degree: a qualification which has a minimum duration of (a) 5 years with a grade 12 pass as a minimum
entry requirement or (b) 1 year with a
BTech as a minimum entry
requirement.
Laureatus
in technology: a qualification which has a minimum
duration of (a) 7 years with a grade 12
pass as a minimum entry requirement or (b) 2 years with a master’s
qualification as a minimum entry requirement.
Doctor
technologiae degree: a qualification which has a minimum
duration of (a) 7 years with a grade 12
pass as a minimum entry requirement or (b) 2 years with a master’s
qualification as a minimum entry requirement.
A related entity is an entity of one of the following
types:
(a) An entity which in legal terms is
separate from the university or technikon itself, but is controlled by the university
or technikon through the composition of the entity’s management or board.
(b) An entity which is jointly funded and
operated by the institution and another institution or
institutions and is located on the premises of the institution.
See "Staff programme".
A research postgraduate course is one which meets both
these criteria:
it
is coded "07", "09", "28", "30",
"32" or "34" on Element 034
(Course level code), and
the
qualification for which it is being undertaken by the student is coded
"07", "08", "27", "28", "29"
or "30" on Element 005
(Qualification type).
A staff member is a person who is either:
(a) compensated by
the institution by pay or other means for services
rendered, or
(b) while not being paid
or compensated by the institution, performs services which relate to the
institution's normal activities and those activities which would otherwise have
been performed by staff receiving compensation from the institution.
Staff members
include:
(a) Persons who have been on the payroll of
the institution at some time within the collection year and including any such
people who:
are permanent
employees
are temporary
employees (and including students who had temporary employment)
were on sick
leave, long leave, sabbatical leave, maternity leave, study leave or military
leave
were on
secondment to an external organisation, but the secondment is funded by the
institution
(b) Persons who while not being on the payroll
have provided services which relate to the conduct of the institution's normal
activities and which services would otherwise be performed by persons on the
payroll, including the following types of persons:
persons
compensated by the institution through a means other than pay, or
persons who
have donated such services, or
persons who
are paid in full by an external organisation (e.g. an accountant who
works as a seconded lecturer), or
persons whose
major time appointment is with an external organisation with which the institution
has a partnership agreement (e.g. medical specialists who assist with the
clinical training of medical students).
People working for external organisations which are being paid
by the institution to provide "contracted" or hired services (e.g.
for cleaning, grounds maintenance, building and plant maintenance, catering,
security) are NOT to be counted as staff members.
A numeric or
alphanumeric number or code which uniquely identifies a staff
member. The code can be either the real staff number
or some other “dummy” number. If it is a dummy number it must be used for that
person every year.
The same real number
or same dummy number must be used for the person in the collection year and in
all future collection years. If the
person ceases to be a staff member but later becomes a staff member, they
should be assigned the same staff number as the one they were assigned in the
first unit record collection in which information for them was reported.
A staff programme is a type of programme for which a staff member is undertaking duties. The staff programmes are:
Instruction: Activities directly involved in the teaching of students, including
preparation, marking, setting examinations, curriculum development, lectures,
seminars, practicals, and supervision of research projects, theses and
dissertations.
Research: Activities
which are designed to further human knowledge, either by the creation of new
knowledge or the application of existing knowledge.
Public
service: Activities which make available to the public
the resources and skills of staff in order to meet a specific community need.
Academic
support: Activities which support in direct ways the
activities of instruction, research and public service, including library and
museum services, educational media services, academic computing support,
technical support, and academic administration at the course, departmental and
faculty level.
Student
services: Activities, other than instructional ones,
which relate to student development, social and sporting clubs, counseling,
career guidance and health services.
Institutional
support: Centralised activities which are carried out
to support the day-to-day as well as long term viability of the operations of
the institution, including executive management, financial management and
administration, human resources management, facilities management, financial
aid, student admissions, records and examinations, administrative computing
support, public relations and fund raising.
Operation
and maintenance of plant: Activities which are associated with building
and plant maintenance, building and plant renovations and alterations,
landscaping, gardens and grounds, custodial and security services, parking,
cleaning services, and the provision of utilities.
Auxiliary
enterprises: Activities which are related to the provision
of primary support and convenience services on campus for students and staff,
including student housing, staff housing, food services, bookshops and child
care services.
Hospital
services: Activities which are related to the
operations of a teaching hospital or clinic, and teaching health sciences
centers.
Independent
operations: Activities which are independent of and
unrelated to the above programmes.
This is a numeric or alphanumeric number or code which
uniquely identifies a student within the institution. The code can be either the real student
number or some other “dummy” number.
This real number or
dummy number must be used for the student for all effective registrations
reported, throughout all years of his/her undertaking of any qualification or any programme of studies at the
institution.
A student should satisfy both of the following
conditions:
(a) He/she
must be in possession of either a senior certificate with endorsement or
certificate of exemption, or a senior certificate without endorsement, or be
admitted at Senate’s discretion.
(b) He/she
must be enrolled for a course which forms part of the institutions’ formal
degree/diploma/certificate programme.
Note that formal degree/diploma certificate programme includes only
those qualifications which have been accredited by the HEQC and whose
introduction has been approved by the relevant government authority.
If a
person enrolled for a course does not have the minimum qualifications listed in
(a) above, then he cannot be considered a student of the
University/Technikon/University of Technology for HEMIS (or subsidy) reporting
purposes. If a person has one of the
qualifications set out in (a) above, but is enrolled only for (say) remedial
courses which cannot eventually count for credit towards a diploma or
certificate or degree, then he also cannot be considered a student of the
University/Technikon/University of Technology concerned.