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TABLE 5:
ENROLMENT PROFILE ACCORDING TO QUALIFICATION TYPE FOR 2020 AND 2021

2020 2021
QUALIFICATION TYPE ENROLMENTS % QUALIFICATION TYPE ENROLMENTS %
Undergraduate Certificate/ Diploma 11 615 46% Undergraduate Certificate/ Diploma 12 414 47%
Undergraduate Degree 13 752 54% Undergraduate Degree 13 748 53%

UG Total 25 367 100% UG Total 26 162 100%
QUALIFICATION TYPE ENROLMENTS % QUALIFICATION TYPE ENROLMENTS %
Postgraduate Certificate/ Diploma 647 17% Postgraduate Certificate/ Diploma 502 15%
Honours Degree 761 20% Honours Degree 770 22%
Master's Degree 1 741 47% Master's Degree 1 558 45%
Doctorial Degree 582 16% Doctorial Degree 616 18%
PG Total 3 731 100% PG Total 3 446 100%
Excluding Occasional Excluding Occasional

2. Graduate Profile from 19.4 to 17.1 percent, year on year. The number of PG
graduates was 16.6 percent lower than that 2021 target
submitted. The success rate for 2021 was 83 percent,
A total of 7 264 graduates were awarded their respective
relative to 85 percent in 2020. 7 264 Graduating students
qualifications at the autumn and summer graduation
were issued with secure digital graduation certificates
sessions in April and December 2021, with UG graduate
in addition to printed copies, using a system that was
numbers (6 022) up by 1.7 percent, relative to 2020. This
developed in-house.
exceeded the 2021 target by 4.9 percent. The number of
PG graduates decreased by 12.6 percent in 2021, down
TABLE 6:
INSTITUTIONAL KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS ON STUDENT SUCCESS FOR 2021 RELATIVE TO
2019 AND 2020
KEY PERFORMANCE AREA HEMIS HEMIS 2020 HEMIS YEAR ON 2021 ACTUAL
2019 AUDITED 2021 2ND YEAR TARGET VERSUS
AUDITED SUBMISSION CHANGE TARGET
VARIANCE
B. Success
Graduates UG 5 520 5 921 6 022 1.7% 5 743 4.9%
Graduates PG 1 431 1 421 1 242 -12.6% 1 490 -16.6%
Success rate 79% 85% 83% -2.4% 80% 3.7%

* Key:
■ Target met or exceeded
■ Trend needs to be monitored
■ Target not met and corrective action required
■ Data not final and performance indicator will still improve

3. Broadening Access the Eastern Cape TVET Colleges Research Roundtable
and Nottingham University. The series coalesced the
TVET colleges community and included discussion on
In 2000, the Chair for Youth Unemployment, Employability
the possibilities for TVET to better respond to the skills
and Empowerment (CYUEE) held the Technical and
needs of the formal economy, the informal economy, and
Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Webinar
the social economy. Building a deeper understanding of
Series: Re-imagining TVET. The series was undertaken in
the capacities and demand for TVET is the DHET TVET
partnership with the Faculty of Education and eight other
Colleges Research Programme (TVET-RP). The CYUEE
partner organisations, including the DHET, Institute for
is one of eight partners working on the TVET-RP and is
Post-School Studies (from University of the Western Cape),
responsible for three components of this large scale TVET
the Centre for Researching Education and Labour (from
research programme:
the University of the Witwatersrand), the Human Sciences
Research Council (Education and Economy Division),

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