BOITUMELO MAKGOTLO

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STANDARDS GENERATING BODY AND EDUCATION, TRAINING
AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (ETQA)
SHORTCRETE CONFERENCE 2009
BOITUMELO MAKGOTLO SG Officer
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STANDARDS GENERATING BODY Key deliverables

• Develop, maintain and report on Occupational
  Qualifications sub-Framework for the mining and
  minerals sector
• Register and report on constituent members of
  Technical Reference Groups (TRGs)/ Communities of
  Expert Practice (CEPs) in the mining and minerals
  sector
• To ensure that the Sector has the relevant
  Qualifications and Unit standards written and
  registered
• on the NQF
• To develop, register and maintain learning
  programmes inclusive of learnerships,
  apprenticeships and skills programme
• Coordinate, monitor and ratify learning material
  development and maintenance.

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Components of a Qualification

• CORE
• The compulsory learning outcomes that
• ensure the general purposes of the qualification
  are met, and
• must be achieved by all Learners who wish to
  receive the qualification

ELECTIVE/SPECIALISATION A selection of
additional credits from which a choice can be
made by a Learner to ensure they achieve specific
or specialist purposes.
ELECTIVE
CORE
FUNDAMENTAL

• FUNDAMENTAL those outcomes that
• form the grounding for learning
• must be achieved by Learners at a particular
  level in order to make it possible for them to
  meet the learning demands of the particular
  qualification, and
• form the basis for learning generally.
• Key outcomes in language, communications and
  mathematical literacy would fit into this category

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PROCESS OF STANDARDS GENERATION
SAQA
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MMS SGB
GEN MAN SGB
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HS SGB
SGB X
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SQCG
VALCOM
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TRG 20
TRG 6
TRG 4
TRG X
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ETQA EDUCATION TRAINING QUALITY ASSURANCE (ETQA)

• Accredit constituent providers and grant
  programme approval to non-constituent providers
  for specific standards and qualifications
• Audit, monitor and report on performance of
  accredited constituent providers and programme
  approved non-constituent providers
• Audit and verify learner achievements at
  providers sites to maintain the integrity of
  learner credits achieved
• Evaluate and report on assessment and moderation
  amongst constituent providers and programme
  approved non-constituent providers
• Register assessors and moderators for specific
  standards and/or qualification
• Report on certification systems for learners and
  accredited providers

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EDUCATION TRAINING QUALITY ASSURANCE (ETQA)

• Proposed changes to the NQF landscape
• Following the NQF Review process that started in
  2001, changes aimed at enhancing the efficacy and
  efficiency of the National Qualifications
  Framework are taking place.
• NQF Bill
• Higher Education Amendment
• General Education and Training Amendment Bill
• SDA Amendment

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ETQA KEY DELIVERABLES
Certification of constituent learners
Registration of Assessors and Moderators
Conduct External Moderation
maintain a data-base
Accreditation or Programme Approval of Training
Providers
Maintain the Quality of Standards, Qualification
and Learning Provision in the Mining and Minerals
Sector

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ACCREDITATION/PROGRAMME APPROVAL OF PROVIDERS

• Accreditation?
• "accreditation" means the certification, usually
  for a particular period of time, of a person, a
  body or an institution as having the capacity to
  fulfill a particular function in the quality
  assurance system set up by the South African
  Qualifications Authority in terms of the Act
• Programme Approval?
• It is applicable to providers who have
  received accreditation from their primary ETQA
  and require scope extension to include programmes
  which are quality assured by an ETQA.

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ACCREDITATION/ PROGRAMME APPROVAL OF PROVIDERS

• Accreditation requirements
• Four Pillars for accreditation
• The implementation of a quality management system
  (QMS)
• The existence of learning delivery system, which
  will meet the outcomes and the registration of
  ETD Practitioners
• The registration of assessors and management of
  assessment system, appeal processes and reporting
  processes
• The establishment of an internal moderation
  system to compliment the assessment process

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ACCREDITATION/ PROGRAMME APPROVAL OF PROVIDERS

• Accreditation requirements
• Legal Entity
• Levy payer to the MQA
• Scope should fall within the Mining Sector
• Financially Viable

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REGISTRATION OF ASSESSOR AND MODERATORS

• Registration Requirements
• Subject Matter Expert
• Competent as an assessor/moderator
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in the
  field applying to assess/moderate
• Must have the necessary interpersonal,
  communication, planning and administration
  skills

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CERTIFICATION OF CONSTITUENT LEARNERS

• Issuing of Qualification, learnerships and
  apprenticeships certificates
• Issuing of Statement of attainments for Skills
  Programmes

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MANTAINING A DATABASE
MQA
SAQA
ATP
National Learner Record Database
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THANK YOU