HELTASA

Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa

HELTASA’s mission and vision is to promote quality in higher education practice through the creation of a synergistic network and the professionalisation of higher education practitioners in Southern Africa in three main areas of focus: policy matters in higher education; developmental practices and educational research.

Its key objectives and activities are focused on:
Creating, supporting and sustaining special interest groups on institutional, staff, student, curriculum and technological development
Interacting with the Department of Education, Council on Higher Education and other relevant bodies on HE matters
Promoting peer review as a means of enabling quality in HE practices
Organising and running an annual conference to promote the scholarship of teaching in HE

The core values of HELTASA are: 
Collegiality
Professionalism
Quality
Equity
Excellence
Development
Creativity
Criticality
Innovation