BEYOND ABET UMALUSI COLLOQUIUM SEPTEMBER 2005

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BEYOND ABETUMALUSI COLLOQUIUMSEPTEMBER 2005

• Model of Provision
• Andrew Miller
• Project Literacy

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WHAT PROJECT LITERACY OFFERS

• General and occupational ABET
• Does recreational still happen?
• Formal in the main .. Aligned to NQF
• Non formal in our management of SANLI in two
  provinces last year
• There is room for both .
• Different strokes for different folks

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PROBLEMS

• Effective streamlined path for programme approval
  does not exist
• SETAs not effective with cross SETA accreditation
• SETAs have given blanket accreditation to
  training programmes, eg. the MQA

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PROBLEMS cont

• Lack of consistency between UMALUSI, SETAs and
  various ETQAs
• Accreditation is in priciple good to separate the
  good from the bad, but it has not worked to date
• Little capacity within the ETQAs or UMALUSI to
  follow up . lack of consistency

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ASSESSMENT ISSUES

• Assessment is either through the IEB or the State
• YET some SETAs, in contravention of their own
  rules, use UNISA
• Others simply accredit training through spurious
  means, e.g. the mining houses
• We need national standardised outcomes for the
  fundamentals especially

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CHALLENGES AND QUESTIONS

• No unit standards for lower level ABET, yet SETAs
  place these into learning programmes and then
  assess against what?
• We urgently need support and funding for learners
  battling with fundamentals at NQF1

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CHALLENGES AND QUESTIONS cont

• Things we hear all the time . Pre ABET (???) and
  ABET Level 5
• Cost of assessment a challenge
• IEB will assess anything but only with the
  correct numbers
• Difficult to register private learners through
  State centres
• What about limited ability of providers to assess
  learners at lower levels

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CHALLENGES AND QUESTIONS cont

• How valuable is the GETC?
• Maybe fundamentals are enough to enable further
  workplace learning?
• Programme approval is given by technicians who
  lack subject knowledge
• The sector needs a torch bearer for standards,
  norms and the ability to disqualify providers