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Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning.

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DIRAP

Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning

About DIRAP

DIRAP’s primary focus is to support evidence-based decision-making at the UFS. Through rigorous research and reflective practice we endeavour to produce a valid, reliable and relevant body of institutional self-knowledge which informs both the human and academic projects of the UFS.

Functional Areas

To this end the Directorate operates within the following functional areas:

Data systems management
Enrolment planning
Institutional research

Monitoring and reporting
Quality enhancement
The UFS Programmes and Qualifications Mix (PQM)

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DIRAP Directorates

DIRAP comprises of the Office of the Senior Director and three closely interrelated directorates, namely Monitoring and Institutional Research (MIR), Academic Planning and Quality Promotion (AP), and Institutional Information Systems.

Academic Planning

AP Focuses on new program accreditation & Quality Assurance

Outputs includes Modolules at risk.

Monitoring And Institutional Research

MIR is responsible monitoring institutional performance and informing strategic direction.

Outputs include GES and GDS

Institutional Information Systems

IIS is primarily responsible for HEMIS and Ad Hoc Queries.

Outputs include HEMIS Reports and PowerHEDA dashboards

Directorates collaboration

These Directorates collaborate to support the 2023 to 2028 Strategic Plan and Vision 130 of the UFS, with a specific focus on the following objectives and strategies:

Increasing student success by improving the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Implementing strategic management of enrolments to achieve academic sustainability and to maximise our government subsidy in terms of teaching input and output, thereby reducing the UFS’s dependence on tuition fees, and
Improving student equity by narrowing the gap in success rates between black and white students.