Ensuring Quality in Higher Education
Establishing standards in higher education in Zambia are maintained
HEA promotes quality assurance in Higher Education.
A dynamic quality assurance body promoting internationally recognised Zambian higher education
An efficient and effective higher education regulatory agency
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is a grant aided institution established under the Higher Education Act No. 4 of 2013, to ensure quality of de¬livery of services by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The HEA began its operations in 2015.
Mandate: “To coordinate, regulate, supervise and monitor standards of higher education in Zambia.”
Vision: “To be an efficient and effective higher education regulatory agency which will bring forth a quality higher education system which is well coordinated, acces¬sible, equitable, responsive and relevant.”
Design an institutional quality assurance system with HEA
HEA will design and recommend an institutional quality assurance system for higher education institutions, and recommend to the Minister institutional quality assurance standards
Functions
HEA's functions are exhausted in the Higher Education Act's Part II Section 6, and include
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Regulation
To regulate Higher Education Institutions and coordinate the development of higher education in order to promote quality higher education.
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Advisory
To recommend policy interventions and remedial measures in the higher education sector to the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) in order to provide information to facilitate informed decision making.
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Collaboration
To facilitate collaboration of the Authority with organisations of similar functions in order to enhance capacity and share best practices
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HEA will restructure and transform HEIs and LPs
HEA will restructure and transform higher education institutions and learning programmes to be responsive to the human resource, economic and development needs of the Republic
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Private Higher Education Institutions
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Public Higher Education Institutions
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Learning Programmes accreditated