The Higher Education Installing Commission effectively began operating under this name through Ordinance no. 21/92, of May 2, 1992, having as its main objectives:
- To institutionally frame the existing courses of a higher nature;
- To create the conditions in administrative, scientific, and pedagogical terms for the institutionalization of higher education;
- To study and propose ways to link the already existing research structures to higher education;
- To coordinate and manage the funds assigned to it by law, as well as the international cooperation projects directly related to higher education
- Grant agreements and accords that are within the scope of its attributions;
To issue opinions on proposals for new courses.
These competencies were extended a year later, through Dispatch no. 26/93, of May 3, 1993, with the following incumbencies: (i) the preparation of proposals for the creation, extinction or reconversion of higher education establishments; (ii) the preparation of the regulations applicable to each of the establishments, the framework law for higher education and the statutes of the teaching and research careers; (iii) formulating the proposal for the generic curricular organization of the courses; (iv) regulating the conditions for obtaining the degrees of master and doctor; (v) deciding on the processes of equivalence and recognition of academic qualifications and degrees, respectively; (vi) presenting the proposal for the regime of access to higher education.
For more information on the Installing Commission for Higher Education in Cape Verde, see pages 34-35 of the book by Bartolomeu Varela, "The evolution of public higher education in Cape Verde: from the creation of the Secondary Education Teachers Training Course to the installation of the Public University" (Edições Universidade de Cabo Verde & Bartolomeu Lopes Varela, 2013), accessible online through the link.