UMALUSI

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UMALUSI

• Council for Quality Assurance in
• General and Further
• Education and Training
• (Act No.58, December 2001)

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1. Umalusis scope of work

• Quality assurance of providers
• Public provincial departments (including
  schools, colleges and adult education centres)
• Private providers Schools, Colleges ,AET
  centres .
• Issues
• Registration of providers
• Nature of majority private providers
  survivalist

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Umalusis scope (continued)

• Overlap with DoE re QA of provinces
• Accreditation pressure in the system for private
  providers, the emergence of new providers since
  1998 for accessing the Skills Fund, and the
  adverse impact on the NGO based adult education
  sector.

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Umalusis scope (continued)

• Control over norms and standards of curriculum
  and assessments
• Historical construction of curriculum and
  assessments
• The changing and still changing terrain over the
  last 10years ( schools, colleges, adult education
  and training)
• Assessments beyond matric

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Umalusis scope (continued)

• Issuance of certification at exit points
• Senior certificate, N courses, GETC, and FETC
• Multiplicity of quality assurance entities, e.g.
  SETA ETQAs.
• Multiplicity of standards setting points.

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2. Progress in the past 2 years

• Absorbed and completely taken over the work of
  predecessor entity SAFCERT in quality
  assuring the senior certificate and technical
  certificate examinations and issuing
  certificates.
• Established a quality assurance system for the
  General Education and Training Certificate (GETC)
  examination for adults equivalent to grade 9 -
  first certificates issued end of 2003

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Progress (continued)

• Put in place a provisional accreditation system
  for private providers to relieve the
  accreditation pressure in the system
• Conducted a comprehensive research on the
  standards of the senior certificate examinations
  public release will be done soon

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Progress (continued)

• Finalised the establishment of a functional
  organisation- whose appointments increased from
  9 permanently employed individuals to the current
  43 persons
• Supported a fully functioning governance body and
  its statutory ( Executive and Audit) and
  non-statutory committees.

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3. Next steps

• Quality assurance and promotion in
• Vocational education
• Adult education
• Understanding our responsibilities for the
  quality assurance of provincial Departments
• Building a firm base for the accreditation
  process of private providers

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Next steps (continued)

• Improving the existing quality assurance system
  of high stakes examinations, e.g. matric.
• Establishing a new certification environment for
  the coming FETC

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4. Umalusis role in the senior certificate

• Moderation of question papers
• Monitoring of the examination, including the
  marking
• Moderation of marking
• Verification of continuous assessments
• Standardisation of results
• Certifying the results

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5. Challenges for Umalusi

• Funding
• Unresolved NQF report
• Overlapping legislation
• Working between the current and the future
• Working with sectors that have historically
  received very little attention and support
  vocational education and adult education

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Challenges (continued)

• Ensuring that the matric examinations does not
  overshadow the other work of Umalusi.