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A reflection on the achievements of the National Qualifications Framework over the last 20 years. Our country inherited a racially segregated, unequal, unfair education and training system from the apartheid years The SA NQF was intended to

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A reflection on the achievements of the National Qualifications Framework over the last 20 years.

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Our country inherited a racially segregated, unequal, unfair education and training system from the apartheid years

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The SA NQF was intended to create a single integrated national framework for learning achievements, facilitate access for everyone in the country, and enable quality learning, transparency, and mobility along learning-and-career paths

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It was also intended to accelerate the redress of past discrimination in education, training and employment opportunities

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The intention from the start of democracy was, and remains, that the NQF must enable individual development, as well as contributing to the social and economic development of the country as a whole

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The NQF is a contested, ‘living’ object, realised in the ‘ecology’ of its implementation

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What has been achieved in its first 20 years

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systemic integration

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Quality

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Transparency

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Redress

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learner access and progression

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What did we do well

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We’ve achieved some success, but more work is needed

Redress: Kha Ri Gude Known and understood Professional bodies Contribution to individual and nation

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Needs more attention and focus

Learning pathways Redress: RPL Redress: worker education Quality

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Priorities for the immediate and medium-term future

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the shift towards a stronger coordinating role for SAQA

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the promotion of genuine qualifications of quality

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combating fraud and misrepresentation in the system

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implementing the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Thank you - questions

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1. A reflection on the achievements of the National Qualifications Framework over the last 20 years.
2. Our country inherited a racially segregated, unequal, unfair education and training system from the

apartheid years.

3. The South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) was intended to create a single

integrated national framework for learning achievements, facilitate access for everyone in the country, and enable quality learning, transparency, and mobility along learning-and-career paths.

4. It was also intended to accelerate the redress of past discrimination in education, training and

employment opportunities.

5. The intention from the start of democracy was, and remains, that the NQF must enable individual

development, as well as contributing to the social and economic development of the country as a whole.

6. The NQF is a contested, ‘living’ object, realised in the ‘ecology’ of its implementation.
7. This paper touches on what has been achieved in its first 20 years, touching on
8. systemic integration,
9. initiatives towards, and achievements relating to, systemic quality and transparency,
10. (c) progress regarding redress, and
11. (d) the state of learner access and progression.
12. priorities for the immediate and medium-term future, including
13. the shift towards a stronger coordinating role for the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA),
14. (ii) the promotion of genuine qualifications of quality,
15. (iii)combating fraud and misrepresentation in the system, and
16. (iv) implementing the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training.