BOITUMELO MAKGOTLO SG Officer

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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 7 2 1 3 4 5 6 8 • Standards are secured from other • SGBs through inter SGB relationship. • Valcom/SQCG sends to SGB for • deliberation and approval. • Cross functional reporting • SQCG refers back to TRG if • necessary. • TRG Identify, design and develop • Qualifications, Skills Programmes • and their associated Unit Standards. • TRGs send to Validation Committee • who validates. Disputes referred to SQCG. -SGB sends to OF6 for deliberation and approval. • SGB refers back to TRG if necessary. • SAQA approves, gazette and register on • The NQF PROCESS OF STANDARDS GENERATION SAQA 8 OF X OF 6 OF OF OF 7 H&S SGB M&MS SGB E SGB GEN MAN SGB SGB X 6 6 6 4 4 5 VALCOM SQCG 3 2 2 1 TRG 20 TRG 6 TRG 4 TRG X

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. ACCREDITATION/ PROGRAMME APPROVAL OF PROVIDERS Accreditation requirements: • Legal Entity • Levy payer to the MQA • Scope should fall within the Mining Sector • Financially Viable

11. 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

12. CERTIFICATION OF CONSTITUENT LEARNERS • Issuing of Qualification, learnerships and apprenticeships certificates • Issuing of Statement of attainments for Skills Programmes

13. MANTAINING A DATABASE MQA SAQA ATP National Learner Record Database

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