Formerly the Tertiary Education Commission, in 2020 it was reformed into the HEC and a separate Quality Assurance Authority (QAA) for auditing of qualifications.
[2] Starting as the College of Agriculture, the University of Mauritius, established in 1965, dominates the Tertiary Education Sector locally.
It has since expanded to comprise five faculties, namely Agriculture, Engineering, Law and Management, Science, and Social Studies & Humanities.
Distance learners watch or listen to materials supplied, work on course activities and assignments with support from the tutor who is an email away.
to fields including Management, Business Administration, Human Resource Management/Development, Education, Finance, Accounting, Taxation, Law, Graphics Design, Journalism, Multimedia, Audio-visual Production, Translation Studies, Mathematics, Logistics, Transport, French and English.
[4] Aberystwyth University (Mauritius Branch Campus) was built in the Quartier-Militaire, registered with the HEC and opened in 2016.
All the courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level were accredited by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
The role of the MIE as a curriculum development centre has been phased so that it is now predominantly involved in training teachers and educational research.
Alongside, it produced the teaching and learning Syllabi and also wrote and published some 255 textbooks to cover the whole of the 9-year spectrum from Grades 1 to 9 between 2015 and 2020.
It is also associated with St Mary's University, London and offers Joint Master's and Doctoral programmes in Education, open to international students.
MCA was established in 1971 to promote education, arts and science and culture in Mauritius through mass media.
Since the beginning of 1995, it has been involved in dispensing tertiary level programmes in collaboration with overseas institutions through the distance mode.
Industry Advisory Committees, composed of representatives of both the public and private sectors, are appointed in respect of the programmes.
The committees function is to: The IVTB was set up in 1988 to promote vocational education and training with the purposes of supplying workforce for the industrial, services and domestic sectors.
Since 2004, the IVTB has introduced the National Trade Certificate Foundation Course for students who have completed their Prevocational Education Level 3.
The UIO, established in January 1998 under the aegis of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), is a network of tertiary education and research institutions of the five member states, namely Comores, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles.
It offers Masters and Doctoral programmes and undertake research in entrepreneuriat and related fields with a regional vocation.
It caters for local and overseas students, from India, South Africa, Malaysia, Gulf and other Indian Ocean Rim countries.
Approximately 20% of seats are allocated to local students on the 5-year MBBS program which is divided into ten semesters of 6 months each and BDS course of four years followed by a one-year compulsory rotatory internship.
The college offers postgraduation courses MD/MS in five specialities of Medicine, Surgery, Radio diagnosis, Anaesthesiology, and Ophthalmology.
The MBBS degree Of SSR is recognised by the Medical board of California, IMED/ECFMG USA and by the World Health Organisation.