SPU Annual Report 2017

Sol Plaatje University completed its fourth academic year in 2017 and this report presents the institutional, academic and operational development and performance of our University over the year. The report covers four broad areas of the operation of the University: governance and institutional capacity development; academic performance in enrolments, academic programme implementation and student development and performance; development of infrastructure and facilities to support growth of the University; and financial management, performance and sustainability.

The Council of the University was strengthened by the appointment of new external members and functioned well during 2017. Importantly, Council received approval for the first Sol Plaatje University Institutional Statute which was gazetted in
March 2017. This allowed the University to transition from the generic Standard Institutional Statute, developed by the DHET as a basis for establishing new universities, to a new statute that better represents the institutional and structural
arrangements that our University sees for itself.