Dr Jacqueline Baumgardt (Jax)

Hi, Kate

Please can you give me your source for this statement: Learnerships under the new QCTO qualifications will exist, and will be funded through discretionary grants as per the current process. There are a number of Learnerships registered currently for the new QCTO qualifications.

It would be good to know what APPETD is doing about this. I am not a member and do not intend to become one (being put out to pasture shortly) but when these issues arise, they are ominously absent. Any APPETD members care to comment?

In my view, we should be bypassing the SETAs altogether as they are no longer responsible for accreditation or quality assurance except if that responsibility has been delegated to them by the QCTO. Unfortunately, for legacy qualifications, the SETAs have been delegated this responsibility. Contact details on the attached – be warned though: this…[Read more]

which is where one of the problems lies, Lynel. we have skills providers offering professional qualifications at NQF 7 and 8 which fall under the QCTO – no provision is made for them! and there lies the rub!

True. In the meeting that I had, I was talking to the person responsible for registering PHEIs and he had no clue about QCTO skills providers. then another person piped up that I was right and that there was a conflict in the legislation and that Communique 1 of 2016 needed to be fixed. (BTW it was issued in August 2016 but only signed by the last…[Read more]

I agree, Lynel.
BTW I have had a meeting with DHET who are not able to advise me regarding the position of skills providers in the QCTO NQF6-8 space – made a submission to the DG and they are “working on it”. Until then they cannot take any action against providers who have tried to register without success because, as usual, things were not…[Read more]

Let me guess – Services SETA?

Big poo, Lynel. which SETA was it?

Please note that these circulars are draft and are not yet supposed to be in the public domain – email received this morning from the QCTO in response to my query as to why I had not received them officially