Dr. Lourens Erasmus
Lourens Erasmus will assist SMTI with higher education planning and accreditation of qualifications, institutional and policy planning and development. Lourens is the Managing Director of Education Management Consultants (Pty Limited), focusing on the development and accreditation of higher education curricula and learning programmes with the South African tertiary regulatory authorities.
In this connection he is currently involved in the registration of a number of private tertiary institutions with the Department of Higher Education and Training. He was previously the Executive Academic Head at a private higher education institution in Pretoria (which has reorganised its staffing structure), where he was responsible for programme planning & development, teaching & learning, quality assurance, accreditation (Council on Higher Education and SAQA), registration (Department of Higher Education and Training) and academic management and development. Since 2010 he was involved as the institution’s administrator of higher education, in the development and submission of BEd and Diploma programmes (Foundation and Intermediate Phases; Diploma in Reception Year Teaching) for the purpose of accreditation with the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education.
He holds the following degrees: BA (1982), BTh (1985), MTh (1987), PhD (1994) and MA (Higher Education Studies, 2014), all at the University of the Free State, South Africa.