Category: Institutional DEFSA Members (12)


Category: Institutional DEFSA Members (12) Popularity
BHC School of Design
BHC offers full-time and part-time courses in Interior Design, Interior Decorating, AutoCAD and many more...
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Design Centre
Our vision is to be the leaders in design education empowering our students for the real world. The degree programmes offered are grounded in a strong research base and this will ensure that our programmes remain at the forefront of design education.

At the Greenside Design Center we strongly encourage commitment to social responsibility through forging partnerships with the design industry, education institutions and community at large.
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Design School Southern Africa
Established in 1990, the Design School Southern Africa is committed to furthering the design education process in south africa by imparting knowledge through the provision of innovative, creative and challenging teaching techniques in an environment that promotes understanding and awareness of social values and differences. The Design School Southern Africa is accredited by the Council On Higher Education (CHE) and registered with the Department Of Education As Per Cert. No. 00HB21.
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Durban University of Technology
With approximately 23 000 students, the Durban University of Technology (DUT) is the first choice for higher education in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). It is located in the beautiful cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg (PMB). As a University of Technology, it prioritises the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring its academic staff possess the highest possible qualification that they can get. The Durban University of Technology is a result of the merger in April 2002 of two prestigious technikons, ML Sultan and Technikon Natal. It was named the Durban Institute of Technology and later became the Durban University of Technology in line with the rest of the universities of technology.
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Inscape Design College
Established in 1981 by Harry Edmonds and Cherry Whitehead, Inscape continues to offer excellence in education, by design. After almost three decades, we are the oldest privately-owned multi-disciplinary design college in South Africa. We MUST be doing it right!

Inscape offers a Bachelor of Design Degree in Interior Design or Graphic Design (Fulltime) and Design Foundation Course (Full-time). Our part-time courses include Architectural Draughting and Interior Decorating. We also offer Short courses in Adobe and Autodesk programs
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Midrand Graduate Institute
MGI aims to be the leading private higher education provider in Southern Africa, recognised both locally and internationally for our academic excellence, career-focused programmes and world class service delivery on multiple campuses. We are committed to academic excellence, product and sales excellence, and financial and business excellence.
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) is an engaged and people-centred university serving the needs of diverse communities by contributing to sustainable development through excellent academic programmes and research.

NMMU brings together the best traditions of technikon and university education, and draws on more than a century of quality higher education, in a new kind of university that offers a wide range of academic, professional and technological programmes at varying entrance and exit levels.

NMMU has approximately 25 000 students and approximately 2 500 staff members, based on seven campuses in the Nelson Mandela Metropole and George.
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Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography
Expressions of work and education in our country change so quickly that anything you write about them is redundant by the time the ink dries. Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography aspires to conquer this uncertainty by producing graduates who are elastic enough to make a valuable contribution to the creative community they ultimately join.
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The Open Window School of Visual Communication
The Open Window (Pty) Ltd, trading as The Open Window School of Visual Communication, is registered as a private higher education provider by the South African Department of Education to offer a two-year Diploma in Visual Communication, a three-year BA Visual Communication
Qualifications

The Open Window offers:
- Diploma in Visual Communication Design
- BA Degree in Visual Communication Design
- Honours Degree in Visual Communication
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Tshwane University of Technology
The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is a proud product of South Africa's first decade of democracy. While the size and scope of this dynamic new institution impress, the quality of its teaching, research and community engagement is what makes the University really stands out. TUT was established on 1 January 2004, with the merging of the former Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. At the time of the merger, the uniquely South African institutional designation of "technikon" was dropped in favour of the internationally accepted "university of technology" designation.
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University of Johannesburg
It is the vision of the University of Johannesburg to be a premier, embracing, African city university offering a mix of vocational and academic programmes that advances freedom, democracy, equality and human dignity as high ideals of humanity through distinguished scholarship, excellence in teaching, reputable research and innovation, and through putting intellectual capital to work.

In its mission, the UJ commits itself to the following:

* Quality education
* Leading, challenging, creating and exploring knowledge
* Supporting access to a wide spectrum of academic, vocational and technological teaching, learning and research
* Partnerships with our communities
* Contributing to national objectives regarding skills development and economic growth
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Vaal University of Technology
In the 43 years of its existence, first as a College of Advanced Technical Education (1966- 1979) then as Vaal Triangle Technikon (1979-2003), Vaal University of Technology has grown in stature as a higher education institution, drawing students from all over the country. It is one of the largest residential Universities of Technology, with about 17 000 students. This position enables it to make a substantial contribution to the development of human resources in the region and country.
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