Louise Sterling

Eduwrite has this course; I will send you a quotation.

Have emailed you with her contact details.

Hi Johan. A colleague at a TVET college recently bought in this qualification and the learning materials were totally unusable – even though they did due diligence. The College had to bin it.  If you send me your email address, I can put you in touch with her. I’m sure you will benefit from hearing about her experience. 

Sorry to hear this Nigel. The same thing happened to Eduwrite with our Level 4 ECD qualification. The unscrupulous seller (I don’t know how they acquired our material) could sell at a cheap price because they had no development costs. I was in the absurd situation of having to drop my prices because I was competing with my own material!!! 

Glad to see this issue come out into the open. A client who is a well-established training provider was hit by this requirement about 1.5 years ago. His company focus on leadership and management training in HR contexts; they also offer mentoring and coaching. He could not get HWSETA to accept that as a business owner he did not have to have a…[Read more]

Eduwrite has the FETC, Higher Certificate and National Diploma.We have been developing ECD materials since 2004; all our authors are ECD subject experts. You can email me: contact@eduwrite.org

Eduwrite also has this fundamental package available in the following:
– Afrikaans – isiXhosa
– 2nd language of choice
You can contact me at contact@eduwrite.org

Hi Liezl

Thanks – I will be in touch.

Tass – just to be clear, she was not discounting all of the Humanities as a discipline; she was arguing that the current Humanities degrees should be made “useful” by linking them to occupations so that students graduate with a degree that “can be slotted into the workplace context. e.g. a BA in Organisational Psychology. There are grave dangers…[Read more]

Thanks Wilma. I appreciate it. Even if they only have some of the skills, encourage them to contact me.
I guess you are too busy? 

Eduwrite does have an exceptional course developed by an industry subject expert: 14111: Professional Cookery. I will email you a quote. contact@eduwrite.org

I do use plagiarism checking tools in my business. But the red flags are very easy to spot. Often accomplished sounding material in a very short Learner Guide is a clue. Another clue is a Learner Guide developed in week or two that is massive. Also uneven language levels and shifts in tone. As a matter of course, I simply check 3 or 4 random…[Read more]

I guess it brings up the debate – how do you assess the ability to author or develop. Every informal TVET developer will argue that he or she is qualified.
After a lifetime in publishing, I am absolutely clear that any book authored should be developed by a subject expert with both formal qualifications + long experience in the field. However,…[Read more]

Hannes – it amazes me that materials development in the TVET sector is is completely unregulated.
For many years, the schooling sector has used textbooks produced by the commercial publishers who have their own internal QA and plagiarism checks. They use the same system as Eduwrite – subject expert authors partnered with experienced writers;…[Read more]

Well said Rufaz. I agree completely.

My email is: contact@eduwrite.org

I can recommend a colleague who I refer clients to for CHE accreditation. You can email me: contact@eduwrite.org and I’ll give you her details.

Thanks so much for sharing your expertise Denis. Can I email you about this rather? My email is louise@eduwrite.org. 

Hi Millie. I have just emailed SAQA with a similar question –  but have had no reply. Perhaps if Joe Samuels sees this post he could advise us. My client is overseas, in a country with no formal curriculum. They have expert facilitators trained in the area. They would like to use my materials and offer an accredited certificate from SA. They are…[Read more]

Excellent overview – many thanks.