The Qualification Council for Trades and Occupations QCTO is designated to manage all development, quality assurance and qualification of all learnerships, apprenticeships, occupational learning and trades, including the regulation of the assessment for these qualifications.
Within this sub-framework, qualifications, known as Occupational Certificates and Trade Certificates are awarded to learners completing education, training and development activities that are built around the occupation or trade. Should a learner want to move qualifications horizontally to access learning offered by the HEQSF, an articulation path, coupled with activities such as recognition for prior learning RPL is the route to follow to enable access to diplomas and degrees.
The Higher Education and Training sub-framework HEQSF allows for HET qualifications from vocational, professional and general learning routes, which give clear articulation pathways between qualifications in this band.
It provides a basis for standards development and quality assurance. It provides a mechanism for improving the coherence of the higher education system and indicates the articulation routes between qualifications, thereby enhancing the flexibility of the system and enabling students to move more efficiently over time from one programme to another as they pursue their academic or professional careers.
Qualifications on the NQF or any of its sub-frameworks , have to meet the minimum requirement of earning a learning a minimum of credits. It is also known as the first exit level of the NQF and Grade 9 learners at school and adult learners in formal, informal or non-formal learning earn a comparable GET certificate. The condition comparability stems from the South African Constitution and is a basic human right. The General Education and Training Band, forms the conceptual foundation for all learning and is a critical level in ensuring success for learning in subsequent bands.
Umalusi, the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education, is the custodian of the sub-framework that organises learning in General and Further Education and Training and ensures quality within this framework, according to the conditions of the National Qualifications Framework Act 67 of and the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act 58 of Umalusi quality assures and certifies the following qualifications, from various channels of learning, within the GENFET sub-framework:.
Umalusi takes on the tasks of developing and evaluating qualifications and curricula to a specific and expected standard, which will be accepted and recognised internationally. They continuously research quality in their framework and implements good practice through their accreditation process.
They moderate assessments according to the principles of fairness, validity and reliability and verify the authenticity of assessments that relate to the GENFET Sub-Framework. In the schooling system, whether it is homeschooling, public or private schooling, the levels of learning are called grades , starting at the preparatory level, Grade R, and learners passing through this system do so in an academic year until they reach Grade 9.
A national examination takes place at the end of grade 9, which is the General Education and Training Certificate for schools. Although the name was changed, qualifications and the need for developing the foundation of learning for adult learners were not affected. Essentially, there are direct correlations between the outcomes that need to be achieved in adult learning and the curricula for schools, so that the challenge of functional illiteracy may be addressed and remedied in order to inspire learners on a path for lifelong learning.
A certain number of credits are allocated to the successful completion of a registered qualification. Skip to main content. Search form Search this site. Home Services Documents. National Government. Service Create listings for services offered by the Western Cape Government. Orphaned Content. Description: The National Qualifications Framework NQF is the system that records the credits assigned to each level of learning achievement in a formal way to ensure that the skills and knowledge that have been learnt are recognised throughout the country.
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These are: The GET, as the foundation of any modern society; the HET, as the overarching roof providing research capability, development and innovation; and the FET as the wall for this magnificent edifice.
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