Thumbs up to the LG-SETA for a quick and efficient service. My extension of scope application on 23 April 2012 was approved within an hour. Special mention to Illana Smith.

SAQA is mandated to develop an NQF Implementation Framework after consultation with the 3 Quality Councils. The NQF Implementation Framework  is the roadmap for NQF implementation over the next 4 to 5 years. If you really want to be ahead of the game then it is within your interests to download this document and engage with it. I will be happy to answer any questions relating to this. The SAQA website is www.saqa.org.za.

Does anybody know if schools are focusing on implementing feeding programs? 

What impact will this have on the future, for our country and training & development?

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hi everyone , can someone tell me what is the current rate of moderation per poe and on average how many poes should l moderate if they are 20 assessed poes?

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Am looking for a chairperson for the 26th April 2012; i need an experience chairperson as this is a serious matter  

Greg Smith did not agree with the corporate culture at his employer, Goldman Sachs, so on 14 March, 2012, he resigned. And he did so publicly, very publicly – the reasons for his resignation was explained in a scathing column in the New York Times of the same date. Greg, an expatriate South African, was the London-based executive director of equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs, one of the more successful investment banks on Wall Street. In his New York Times exposé he described a…

I was recently working at a company and was advised some of the delegates at the training course I was conducting could not attend as they had been called into a meeting by the General manager.

I asked – when they were notified – the response yesterday

I asked when my training had been scheduled – they responded three weeks ago

I asked why the GM had not been advised they had a prior training engagement? The response was – “we cant do that , well be fired”

What a…

recoverdex is hosting another 3 day IT Risk and Business Continuity Management training course from the 08 – 10 May 2012. L…

There was a time when companies supplying highly beneficial training interventions - that did not match the sometimes archaic Unit standards - were grouped as Recorded Providers by the Services Seta. This ensured that they were in some recognised for their value. This has fallen by the way.

Many Unit Standards are based either on companies recording their own work, or on very old fashioned and didactic training outcomes and methodologies.

For example:- Diversity…

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We are looking for some that is qualified and that has experience to assist us  with aligning all our course material against a relevant unit standards, these have to be with Services Seta.  email  me if you are interested: jenine@cbm-training.co.za. Thank you

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I need to create a job profile summary for each role; has anyone have an idea/template on how to do this

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Bursaries and scholarships increase value for employers and employees by improving overall skills levels. The South African 2012-2013 Budget made changes to the legislation regarding the taxation of bursaries and scholarships. “Bursaries are generally employer deductible and potentially tax free to an…

"I used to be a lost boy, a drug addict," says 21-year-old Nathaniel Wagner of Bridgetown on the Cape Flats. "Now my passion is to show other young people that they have opportunities and can chase after their dreams."

Wagner is a graduate of the Grow Academy, a digital artisan training initiative set up by a group of Cape Town tech entrepreneurs and NGOs to provide entry-level online skills for the city’s burgeoning tech industry. Along with 20 other…

It is my pleasure to confirm that I have been appointed as Principal of the Mintin Academy of Development Studies, a Project of the Islamic Social & Welfare Association.

One of the objectives is to develop and expand on he learnerships and other training programmes that will be offered by the Academy.

It is also important that My expertise in promoting other skills & training Programmes will be enhanced by the Partnership that were forged recently and we aresure that…

The growing need to have a well developed and competent, skilled workforce is slowly deteriorating to the extent that our economy is suffering as a result of not training employees for the job nor for its succession planning.

It is more about compliance to labour legislation as opposed to increasing our economic output, improved quality and in generating better wealth for all.

Training have focused more on learnerships / qualifications on paper as opposed to…

Real Wage, Labor Productivity, and Employment Trends in South Africa: A Closer Look

In a recently published International Monetary Fund Working Paper it is recorded that during the recent economic 'recession', South Africa's…