Self-Evaluation by Nedbank Chair in Accountancy & Director of School (9.1.1): This serves to confirm that the University of Limpopo has an articulation agreement with the University of Johannesburg (UJ) that is valid for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Accreditation of the undergraduate programme is only now sought from SAICA. UJ has sent a promise to sign an articulation agreement if SAICA grants University of Limpopo undergraduate accreditation. I will ensure that any articulation agreement signed with the UJ and any other institution complies with all the requirements of SAICA. As it is quite difficult to do a mapping of undergraduate units and modules to one other university, as well as to SAICA, it becomes almost impossible to do this with more than one university. All the UJ undergraduate material (modules, tests, examinations and solutions) was obtained from the UL. The unit contents and standard of assessment and mapping to the SAICA syllabi were benchmarked to that of the UJ.
SAICA ACCREDITATION SELF-EVALUATION REPORT 2011
The reasonable degree of mapping that already exists is evident in the pass rates obtained so far. Please note that these pass rates are based on students completing their degrees in 2007; 2008 and 2009 (I started at UL July 2009). For this reason, I do not think one should expect exactly the same pass rates as those of the UJ in this case. Furthermore, the numbers are still very small, making statistical rigour impossible.
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The below 50% pass in 2009 was as a result of a very poor 2008 at the University of Limpopo, when SAICA threatened to withdraw their support from the UL Thuthuka Project, and all fourth years students were taken to UJ for an intensive winter school revision and exams that replaced their UL predicate mark. This intervention led to 32 students qualifying for CTA with no strong background hence the 39% pass rate. Some improvement was experienced from 2010 with 50% pass. We hope the class 2011 will provide even better results. 2008
2009
2010
Enrolment for CTA - 1st attempt
5
32
13
Enrolment for CTA - 2nd attempt
0
1
5
Total from UL in CTA class
5
33
18
PASSED
4
13
9
% Passed
80
39
50
I do believe our students will have the ability to match and even to exceed the UJ pass rates in the years to come, due to the fact that we have an increasing level of experienced and committed staff members. Professor C. M. Ambe