Dr Heinrich Alt completed his PhD in  Philosophy in 1995 and his MA in Higher Education Studies in 2002 at the University of the Free State. He has been employed at the UFS since 1998 when he started to work at the Strategic Service of the University of the Free State. Dr Alt then worked at the Centre for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD) and then for the Planning Unit. Dr Alt worked on research projects and compiled various reports. He has delivered papers at several conferences. Dr Alt has visited prominent researchers in Higher Education in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom and has published in journals and presented workshops; and has successfully supervised postgraduate students. He is currently working in DIRAP as an institutional researcher.

INCLUDE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (SINCE 2000)

ALT, H.A Situation analysis as a first step in developing a quality assurance system based on self-evaluation. 2000. South African Journal of Higher Education 14(2): 94-101.

FOURIE, M. & ALT, H. Challenges to sustaining and enhancing quality of teaching/learning at South African universities. 2000. Quality in Higher Education 6(2): 115-124.

ALT, H. The Relationship between Institutional Research and Quality Assurance. 2001. Newsletter of the Southern African Association of Institutional Research 3(2): 4.

ALT, H. Results of the Questionnaire Survey on Cooperative Academic Programmes. 2002. In Strydom, A.H. & Van der Westhuizen, L.J. (Eds). The Way Forward Through Cooperative Programmes. Bloemfontein: 84-145.

ALT, H. Strategic “ethical” management as an important corner-stone for promoting ethical behaviour and work culture. 2002. In Lategan, L. & Le Roux, P. (Eds). Business Ethics 2002: 51-61.

PRETORIUS, E., HUMAN, S., DEVILLIERS., NIEMANN, R., KLINCK & ALT, H. Fighting from within: gender equity at the University of the Free State. 2002. Acta Academica Supplementum 1: 1-38.

Alt, H. The Problem of Universals. 2006. Dedicated to: prof. Dr D.F.M. Strauss. Special edition of the: Journal for Christian Scholarship. 42(1): 1-15.

BEZUIDENHOUT, H. & ALT, H. 2011. ‘Assessment Drives Learning’: Do Assessments promote High-Level Cognitive Processing? South African Journal of Higher Education. 25(6): 1062-1076.