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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