Mission, Vision and Values

Mission and Vision

HELTASA’s mission and vision are 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.

Values

HELTASA is guided by and committed to its values of collegiality, professionalism, quality, equity, excellence, development, creativity, criticality, and innovation.

Strategic Objectives

As a non-profit organisation, the strategic objectives of the association are to:

• Create, support and sustain an enabling and synergistic network of Higher Education practitioners in Southern Africa
• Facilitate and encourage collaborative conversations and ventures concerning learning and teaching policy, practice, practitioner enhancement, scholarship and educational research.
• Facilitate the professionalisation of higher education practitioners.
• Enhance educational quality and promote networking and professional support among higher education practitioners interested in learning, teaching, and scholarship.
• Strengthen national, regional, continental, and global visibility, networking, partnerships, and scholarly engagement.
• Facilitate and sustain 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;
• Promote peer review as a means of enabling quality in Higher Education practices.
• Organise and host an annual conference to promote the scholarship of teaching in Higher Education.