Members of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training will this week embark on a strategic planning session which will outline and guide how the committee will conduct its business for the next five years.
This session will provide the members with a platform to discuss several issues including the committee's five-year strategic goals, monitoring of the financial and non-financial performance of the Department of Higher Education and Training and its entities to ensure that national objectives are met, student accommodation and infrastructure backlog, Auditor-General`s report on the auditing function of higher education institutions.
Other issues to dominate the session include the capacity building and training programmes for the committee members, and the central applications service.
The workshop will take place as follows:
Date: Thursday, 31 July to Friday, 1 August 2014
Venue: 573 Church St, Premier Hotel Pretoria, Pretoria
Time: 09h00 - 17h30
For media enquiries or interviews with the Chairperson, please contact:
Foster Mohale
Tel: 021 403 2239
Cell: 072 432 3792
E-mail: fmohale@parliament.gov.za
