Just wanted to share the supreme irony of a course I am reviewing. The course is on academic literacy at Level 5 (14582:Develop and apply academic literacy skills) and has been compiled from plagiarised cut and paste sections from wikipedia, wiki-how, http://www.thelanguagelab.ca etc. The course has received accrediation from SETAs and I believe many clients are using this in their training programmes.
Please can SAQA, the QCTO and DHET explain how the SETAs can apply such rigour relative to coverage of individual AC’s in learning materials design, but ignore the massive plagiarism of study material content when it comes to accreditation.
A university student would be expelled for submitting a plagiarised essay yet our TVET learners are provided plagiarised learner guides as text books.
Surely our learners at Level 5 deserve better than this!