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ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK

9 February 2016

• 1. Trades and Occupations – pre QCTO

1.1 Quality Assurance of Qualifications for Trades and Occupations before 1994

• Manpower Training Act
• National Training Boards
• Central Organisation for Trade Testing
• Challenges:
• Racial and class based structure
• No articulation
• Varied standards in quality of training

1.2 Quality Assurance of Qualifications for Trades and Occupations after 1994

• SAQA Act (to 1998)
• National Standards Bodies (NSB); Standards Generating

Bodies (SGB)

• Skills Development Act
• Sector Education and Training Authorities ( SETAs)
• NQF Act (promulgated 2009)
• Three Quality Councils

• 2. Quality Assurance Model for Qualifications in the

OQSF

• Qualification design as the basis for QA
• Quality of Provisioning.
• Quality Assurance of Assessments through

External Integrated Summative Assessment

• 3. Development Quality Partners
• Industry/sector driven
• Responsible for Qualification development
• 4. Assessment Quality Partners.
• Subject matter experts
• Responsible for EISA

Progress (from April 2010)

• Determination of OQSF
• New Occupational Qualifications
• 37 registered and 31 in final stages of development.
• 15 of these linked to Strategic Infrastructure Projects (SIPs)
• 28 Development Quality Partners
• 28 Assessmant Quality Partners
• 25 Qualification Development Facilitators.
• Trades
• National Artisan Moderating Body (NAMB) approved as AQP.
• Single Trade Certificate

• Legacy Qualifications
• Monitoring QA functions delegated to QAPs (SETAs and

Professional Bodies)

• Analysis of Legacy Qualifications with a view to de-register or re-

align.

• Policies
• Delegation to DQPs and AQPs
• Accreditation of Skills Development Providers.

IMPACT/ FOOTPRINT

• Single system
• Curriculum-based occupational qualifications
• Communities of Practice