Broad Banding

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LEANERSHIPS AND QUALIFICATIONS A presentation
by Loffie Naudé
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Background

• The Department of Labour aims to introduce
  policies and programmes to reduce unemployment ,
  poverty and inequality
• Aims inter alia to
• improve economic efficiency and productivity
• skills development and employment creation

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Background (2)

• Two critical pieces of policy
• Learnerships
• Learnership framework was built on the
  established apprenticeship framework.
• Theoretical and practical training aiming at
  competence
• Notion of Lead Employers
• Several employers involved in training of a
  single person rotating the learner in different
  contexts

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SAQA and Learnerships

• SAQA invited SETAs to participate in NSB and SGB
  processes to ensure
• Qualifications meet learnership requirements
• Qualifications meet SAQA requirements
• JIPs are entered into between SAQA and SETAs to
  identify qualifications required for learnerships

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Learnerships

• Learnerships are defined as new professional and
  vocational education and training programmes
  which combine theory and practice and culminate
  in a qualification that is registered on the NQF.
• A person who successfully completes a learnership
  will have a qualification that signals
  occupational competence and which is recognised
  nationally

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What is a Learnership? (2)

• Work-based learning route to a qualification
  registered on the NQF
• Integrates education and training
• Structured institutional learning assessment
• Structures workplace learning assessment
• Leads to any qualification on levels 1 8
• Covers all 25 economic sectors

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Developing a Learnership

• DoL and SETAs should
• Identify labour market needs
• Determine purpose of the learnership
• Establish partnerships and develop capacity
• Analyse employment context
• Establish qualification pathway
• Identify existence of relevant qualification if
  there are none
• Develop qualifications through SAQA processes

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Developing a Learnership (2)

• Developing a Learnership should include
• Institutional learning programme
• Workplace learning programme
• Institutional assessment
• Work-place assessment
• Quality assurance process
• Develop curriculum, material etc

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Learnership Registration Criteria

• SETA submits an application to DoL and ensure
  that
• Learnership leads to a qualification
• There is demonstrable need in the market
• Learnersships are unit standards based or not
  unit standards based
• Provides learner with practical work-place
  experience
• Indicates work opportunities
• Range of learner tasks is indicated
• Application registered by DoL

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Implementation

• PQM approval to offer qualification/ learnership
  (a new qualification)
• Enter into a learnership agreement between
• Employer/Training provider/Learner
• Register learnership agreement with SETA
• Quality assure delivery of learnership
• Award qualification

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Contact details
SAQA House Tel 012 - 431-5000 e-mail
saqainfo_at_saqa.org.za website
http//www.saqa.org.za THANK YOU