IIEB ABET CONFERENCE

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• I IEB ABET CONFERENCE
• DATE 9 JULY 2008
• VENUE BIRCHWOOD CONFERNCE CENTRE
• BOKSBURG
• M.V. MASHIGO

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Presentation Outline

• Background
• ABET Practice Qualifications quality assured by
  ETDPSETA
• Challenges.
• Interventions from the ETDPSETA
• Way forward.
• Progress to date

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BACKGROUND

• The key role of ETDPSETA is the facilitation and
  promotion of skills development. ETDPSTA achieves
  this by ensuring that learning practices,
  qualifications and unit standards for training
  and development of both the employed and
  unemployed are in place.
• ETDPSETA ensures that qualifications and unit
  standards are reviewed after every three years or
  prior to that to make sure that they are fit for
  purpose.

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BACKGROUND cont.

• To facilitate and promotion of skills development
  ETDPSETA has entered into a Joint Implementation
  Plan with SAQA to develop and registered a number
  of qualification and unit standards.
• ABET Practice being one of them.

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ABET Practice Qualification
ETPDSETA Quality Assure the following ABET
Practice Qualifications.
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REVIEWING OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Why do we review
• Comments from practitioners.
• Comments from stakeholders
• Identify and address current priorities and needs
  of the country in terms of skills/ competencies/
  outcomes
• To ensure that the qualification is fit for
  purpose

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CHALLENGES

• The matter of content, knowledge and skills that
  Adult Educators train on is a grave concern
• SACE requirements for registration with the
  Council
• Qualification not recognised by DoE based on
  the norms and standards of educators, gazette
  21565 of 22 September 2000.
• Level 5 and 6 do not include any Fundamental
  component

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CHALLENGES

• The current level 4 qualification does not
  include the second language component.
• The level 6 qualifications does not equal a
  minimum of 360 credits and also includes level 4
  unit standards.
• There are a number of level 4 unit standards that
  are included in all of the qualifications so this
  questions the level of complexity and adherence.
• The Nat Diploma ABET Practice (ID 20159) the
  qualification is not compliant as it only has,
  197 credits instead of a minimum of 240 credits
• This qualification also does not include any
  Fundamental standards or rules of combination.

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INTERVENTION

• Stakeholder meeting was conducted to review the
  qualifications prior to SGB review meetings.
• Requested SAQA to fast track the review
  process.
• Funded the stakeholders meetings .
• ETDPSETA is insisting on Proffesionalising ABET
  Educators for the purpose of registration.
• A meeting was held with the Department of
  Education ABET directorate, SAQA and EPWP to look
  at means and ways of improvising these
  qualification for the purpose of being
  recognised.

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WAYFOWARD

• Review process should be informed by
• Stakeholder inputs with regards to programme
  implementation of these qualifications
• The seven roles of an educator as embedded in the
  norms and Standards for Educators documents
• Level Descriptor documents
• FETC Policy
• International comparability
• SAQA Criteria for the Generation and Evaluation
  of Qualifications and Standards within the NQF
  etc.

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PROGRESS TO DATE

• Submission of the Level 5 ABET Practice
  Qualification to the Qualification and Standard
  Committee to request amendments in order to
  ensure compliance
• There are changes made to make qualifications
  compliant

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THANK YOU