HCHE CALENDAR
2020
IMPORTANT DATES 2020
21-25 September
Mid-Semester Break / First Semester Supplementary Exams / ELI 3rd Quarter Examinations (22 – 23)
24 September
Public Holiday – Heritage Day
28 September
Classes Resume / ELI 4th Quarter Begins
2020
FIRST SEMESTER
January 2020
2
- Working days begin
27, 28
- Orientation and compulsory English Placement Test for new students
28-30
- Registration for all students
February 2020
3
- Opening Assembly at 9:00 – Classes begin at 11:00 / ELI 1st Qtr begins / LATE REGISTRATION FEE IN EFFECT – Application of Class Attendance Policy.
3-7
- LATE REGISTRATION FEE IN EFFECT
9
- Peninsula Tour for New Students
10
- Staff and Student Consecration Service at 10:00
10-12
- FINAL LATE REGISTRATION FEE IN EFFECT
12
- FINAL LATE REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 13:00. Last day to Drop / Add / Change a module. Students may not join classes after this date.
March 2020
1-7
- Week Of Spiritual Emphasis (WOSE)
23-27
- Wellness Week
25
- Community Engagement Week
April 2020
2-9
- Mid-Semester Examinations / ELI 1st Quarter Examinations (8 – 9) / Classes end at 13:00
10
- Easter – Public Holiday – Good Friday
13
- Easter – Public Holiday – Family Day
14-17
- Mid-Semester Break
20
- Classes begin at 08:00 / ELI 2nd Quarter begins
20-24
- National Library Week
27
- Public Holiday – Freedom Day
May 2020
1
- Public Holiday – Workers’ Day
21 May-5 June
- RPL Portfolio Course
25 May-12 June
- HCert in Office Management Session 1
- New intake Students for HCert must be on campus by 18 May as they will be doing an additional module
June 2020
10
- Academic DP for 1st Semester (Adjusted due to COVID – 19)
15 June – 3 July
- Online Examinations for 1st Semester / ELI 2nd Quarter Examinations (1-2) (Adjusted due to COVID – 19)
16
- Public Holiday – Youth Day
SECOND SEMESTER
July 2020
6-10
- Grades Voted and Sent to Registrar’s Office
20 July – 7 Aug
- Online Registration
28
- Orientation for New Students
29
- Online Classes Begin / ELI 3rd Quarter Begins
August 2020
9
- Public Holiday – National Woman’s Day
10
- Public Holiday – National Woman’s Day Observed
21
- FINAL FINANCIAL CLEARANCE CLOSES AT 13:00. Last day to Drop/Add/Change modules. Students may not join classes after this date.
September 2020
21-25
- Mid-Semester Break / First Semester Supplementary Exams / ELI 3rd Quarter Examinations (22 – 23)
7
- HCert in Office Management Session 2 Commences
24
- Public Holiday – Heritage Day
28
- Classes Resume / ELI 4th Quarter Begins
October 2020
24-25
- Helderberg College Council
November 2020
4
- Academic DP for 2nd Semester Published – Examination Entrance Certificates
6
- Last Day of Classes for 2nd Semester / HCert in Office Management Session 2 Ends (7 September – 6 November)
9-10
- Block Study
11-27
- Examinations for 2nd Semester / ELI 4th Quarter Examinations (18 – 19th)
December 2020
2
- Graduand Supplementary Examinations
4
- Graduates Grades to the Records Office
13
- Graduation Commencement Ceremony at 10:00
14
- All Grades Voted and Sent to Registrar’s Office
16
- Public Holiday – Day of Reconciliation
23 Ded – 3 Jan
- College closes at 13:00 on Wednesday 23 December until 3 January 2021
January 2021
18-22
- 2nd Semester 2020 Supplementary Exams / Second Chance Exams
PLEASE TAKE NOTE
Helderberg College of Higher Education reserves the right to adjust this Calender of Events as deemed necessary.