Calvary University (CU) is a global e-Learning University (http://www.calvaryu.org/whystudy.html) which is active on all the continents. It is a University without walls. They are leaders in advanced e-Learning technology. Most Universities are following the same trend of 'distance learning' for life-long-learning. Calvary University bought 22 Hectares of land in Pretoria, South Africa for the establishment of a University/Head Office for the Africa continent. There will be 85 campuses established throughout South Africa and approximately 3000 in Africa.

CU specializes in various programmes. Their approach is unique since it is Christian-based learning.

In 2007 "Hebraic Roots” (Messianic Studies) and "Midrashic Eschatology" programmes were launched globally by Calvary University to enrich the Believers’ faith. These programmes are credit-banked through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) into qualifications which are conferred by Calvary University. The serious Bible student can now, for the first, time study the Hebraic Roots of the Christian faith in a more formal way from a Certificate up to a Doctorate. Students intending to do Under-graduate or Post-graduate studies should contact us in order to plan their academic path in any of these specialized fields (contact detail admin@hrti.co.za)

 Facts about our Accreditation

• In 1999, CLT lodged their registration as a Private Higher Education Institution with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) at the Counsel on Higher Education (CHE).

• SAQA at that time gave accreditation to CLT.

• Note, CHE is also the body that maintains the exceptional high standards, so much so that South African engineers are in demand around the globe - Canada, Australia, U.K., etc.  

• For four years CLT enjoyed the benefits and accreditation from the CHE, as all the conditions and standards for the programmes were met at SAQA.

• CLT kept to these conditions and standards up to this very day, in fact their quality has superseded that which they had in 2004 as half a million Rand (South Africa’s currency) is spent every year on the continuous improvement and upgrading of their study material - no other institution can match this record!

• SAQA, unfortunately, then changed their interpretation of the legislation during 2003, whereby each Tuition Centre had to individually apply for SAQA accreditation. Previously the Head Office of CLT held the Accreditation and maintained the standards on behalf of all the Tuition Centres. The reason for this was, to ensure that they keep the exceptional high standards and uniformity of CLT Head office throughout all the Centres.

• Note of interest, Accreditation compares a specific Theological Programme against the standards of SAQA’s Programmes as spelled out by its Unit Standards.

• The fact is that up to 2003, CLT met all the demands and had a legitimate accreditation with SAQA.

• The Counsel on Higher Education (CHE) published in 2003 that from 2004 all Tution Centres were to be evaluated, which would have caused a lot of seminaries to close due to unbearable costs - there were nearly 300 Tuitions Centres. This is proved by the fact that many other Seminaries (non-CLT) had to close since.

• The new ruling stipulated that every Centre now had to register with SAQA although all the material is sourced from one central point, which is from CLT in Pretoria.

• This new legislation would have resulted in expenditure of millions of Rands for the SAQA registration fees in order to obtain the SAQA accreditation for each Centre.

• A quality decision had to be taken, either to honour Y'shua's instruction in Mat 28:19-20 "to go and make disciples of all nations" thereby not spending the unbearable costs and forfeiting the SAQA accreditation, or close a vast amount of these Centres and directly opposing Y'shua's instruction.

• The first option was taken without hesitation as we cannot oppose the Word of God and our explicit calling. Secondly, the "Body" that gives the Accreditation also now gives Accreditation to sangomas (Sangomas have many different social and political roles in the community: divination, healing, directing rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witches, and narrating the history, cosmology, and myths of their tradition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangoma).

• We therefore refused to be associated with this at the time as the Word says light is not allowed to be associated with darkness, we are sure you as Student or Candidate would have made the same decision. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”  (2 Cor 6:14-15). 

• To get back to 2003, SAQA’s view on Accreditation was and still is to reduce organisations to have one training outlet, and as said before, Y'shua the Messiah commanded us to train Disciples wherever they are, in a multitude of places. Being obedient to the Lord’s call, CLT is blessed by having a very large number of Centres using the same Curriculum. This was and still is YHWH’s work, and scaling down to one Tuition Centre to have SAQA Accreditation would have gone directly against His purpose and command, forfeiting His blessing on the Centres!

• It was a fairly easy process for Universities and Institutions operating from only one premises to obtain the SAQA Accreditation.

• South African Theology Seminary (SATS) and Hebron Bible College are accredited AS IF they only have one Training Centre with many distance students. There are however many study groups which are therefore not audited as they report to be doing correspondence training.

• This kind of training has no Biblical model and therefore CLT cannot and will not reason away its 300 Tuition Centres where contact with the learners is maintained.

• CLT has therefore NOT closed its Centres but instead announced to SAQA, to the Council of Higher Education (CHE) and to the Department of Higher Education (DOE) in 2003 that it withdraws itself from their accreditation.

• CLT gained Accreditation from the international body Christian Quality Assurance (CQA), whose logo appears on all our certificates, and to our surprise, should remain there on SAQA's insistence! (HRTI, EI, and MI) as well)

• CLT has since then invited many other organizations like us and Calvary University to house their own accreditation with CQA.

The definition of Accreditation is: "The act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to educational institutions that maintain suitable standards"  http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=accreditation