Centre for Higher Education Development UCT

Western Cape South Africa

CHED is a unique structure in South African higher education. It has teaching and research responsibilities, producing research in a very wide range of disciplines, and contributing over R23 million to the university in fee and subsidy income. In addition, CHED provides specialist educational expertise and functions to assist faculties to meet UCT's educational and strategic goals: such expertise takes the form of academic staff development, the design and use of ICTs in the curriculum, academic writing support, and career development and graduate recruitment services, to name but a few.