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Melanie Harvard started the topic etdp seta learnership registration in the forum
APPETD Association for Private Providers of ETD 2 months, 2 weeks agoHi – has anyone in this group registered lships through etdpseta as constituent levy payers?
Ie you belong to etdp and wish to put staff on a lship (any qual).
i am having no luck with etdpseta – they don’t seem to know that this is a seta function – what contracts to use or what their process is and I have contacted 3 different people there to…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic Formative assessment in the forum
Discussions on Assessment & Moderation 2 months, 3 weeks agoHi Zebilon – thanks for your thorough answer. Of course formative is a very necessary and important part of the process.
My question was more around what evidence of formative auditors accept – in my experience it is very varied.
i am mainly trying to avoid having to transport vast masses of paper from national centres to our assessment centre…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic Formative assessment in the forum
Discussions on Assessment & Moderation 2 months, 4 weeks agoHi Simphiwe
basically what i mean is how in-depth – have you been required to keep and show every page the learner wrote on or is it not sufficient to show how the learner scored and progressed against the formatives – the tools (masters) themselves can be easily verified as measuring the required outcomes.
i have had very different experiences…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard started the topic Formative assessment in the forum
Discussions on Assessment & Moderation 2 months, 4 weeks agoI am very interested to find out what other accredited providers and assessors have experienced regarding the level of formative assessment work required to be present at an external moderation.
Please share your experiences as to what your auditors have required – and any written seta policy or guidelines about this issue – many thanks
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic Thank you after the WSP-ATR online submission season in the forum Skills Development Facilitators 1 year ago
I can commend Natalie Venter (merseta) who helped our clients with some complex code input requirements, and Thokozani Mlambo at ETDP seta . . . luckily i did not have to submit too many wsprs but it seems everyone I speak to has had a real headache with the IT interfaces and now that setas force the ONLINE submission (in the old days if you had…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic Thank you after the WSP-ATR online submission season in the forum Skills Development Facilitators 1 year ago
I can commend Natalie Venter (merseta) who helped our clients with some complex code input requirements, and Thokozani Mlambo at ETDP seta . . . luckily i did not have to submit too many wsprs but it seems everyone I speak to has had a real headache with the IT interfaces and now that setas force the ONLINE submission (in the old days if you had…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard wrote a new post, Termination & notice time period for learnerships 1 year, 5 months ago
Hi
I dont find anything on the actual notice periods required within learnerships on the DoL pages – and the little i have found seems to conflict.
Can anyone clarify if the notice periods are different on a […]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic No Future for Short/Skills Programmes? How will this impact your business? in the forum
Concerned Providers Interest Group – QCTO/SAQA/SETA 1 year, 6 months agoI have completed a request for renewal of historic qualification form (downloadable off the QCTO website) and on there motivated for the part-qualifications i need . . . it is at least a step in some direction
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic No Future for Short/Skills Programmes? How will this impact your business? in the forum
Concerned Providers Interest Group – QCTO/SAQA/SETA 1 year, 7 months agoI am still busy researching the latest developments – so please correct me if I’m wrong, but won’t short programmes be covered under ‘part qualifications”?
I agree that after very many years of having the QCTO lurking on the horison doing very little – and also with very little information available about future trends – and then to have us hit…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic ASDSA WC COFFEE SESSION INVITATION 26 JULY 2017 in the forum ASDSA Association for Skills Development in South Africa 1 year, 10 months ago
I would love to be there – not sure what the rsvp process is . . .
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Melanie Harvard posted a new activity comment 1 year, 10 months ago
Further to the above – what is the status of e-learning and the NQF? we know sseta retracted their support – but which other setas DO support e-learning and does anyone know the QCTO stance on e-learning. i am trying to start an offering aimed at people who are only able to learn/certify themselves outside of work hours or have no access due to…[Read more]
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In the meeting we had quth qcto a few months back they are of the opinion e-learning should be separate accredited courses as the instruction method requires tailoring of the learner material, but the meeting with sseta the other day when I mentioned this there was horror from the audience
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Melanie Harvard posted a new activity comment 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi All – what is the status of e-learning and the NQF? we know sseta retracted their support – but which other setas DO support e-learning and does anyone know the QCTO stance on e-learning. i am trying to start an offering aimed at people who are only able to learn/certify themselves outside of work hours or have no access due to being in a rural…[Read more]
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BANKSETA accepts e-learning
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic New SETA requirements-am I missing something? in the forum Learning Material Development 1 year, 12 months ago
Hi Cleo
Anyone working in the seta-space can totally identify with your frustrations. I have been doing it for nearly 20 years and so i empathise completely.
Which setas are you mainly dealing with? and tell me more about these changes? if i can’t assist you i can always refer you to someone who can help, and i really don’t mind being called to…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard wrote a new post, You just have to laugh . . . . 2 years, 3 months ago
Having been in the NQF game for a good 18 years plus it never fails to give me a few good laughs . . . those of us who know the system are sadly quite used to the marvelous inefficiencies, delays and […]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic career path advice in the forum
Social Development, Community Building, NPOs & NGOs 2 years, 4 months agothey are over 30. and yes – that is my exact concern – if i give them the level 5 then they may still not have a matric equivalent if they ever want to use that for CV/training purposes. Logically a level 5 is obviously a higher level but may not hold as much value as a matric equivalent to someone who has no matric. I hope you can follow my reasoning?
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic The future of Setas beyond the 31 March 2018? in the forum Concerned Providers Interest Group – QCTO/SAQA/SETA 2 years, 6 months ago
I was thinking the same thing . . . all i see is really more shake-up and hence more confusion for the poor man-on-the-street – with further delays from clients who will need to understand the new structure – and further delays from the new structures as they find their feet and more than likely face exactly the same issues you outline – of…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic What is the competence level in skills development – reflections on this week in the forum SETA ISSUES 2 years, 7 months ago
Having been working with setas and before them the training boards for over 18 years, in my experience you get 1 or 2 interested and engaged people working at the setas – who are like gold – but the rest seem to be place-holding and have lost interest and motivation along the way. They lose sight of the impact of their actions on organisations and…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard replied to the topic Assessors get raw deal in the forum Discussions on Assessment & Moderation 6 years, 3 months ago
It really depends on what the assessor/moderator is bringing to the mix. If it is just their expertise and their time (plus of course the fact that they have acquired seta registration to assess etc) then a fair fee would be based on an hourly rate, really. I do not agree that the higher the level the more you charge, as actually the lower level…[Read more]
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Melanie Harvard wrote a new post, Are Learnership tax deductions over? SARS won’t say. 8 years, 4 months ago
I have heard via the rumour mill that the learnerships tax deductions stop this year – can anyone confirm or deny this?
Even SARS doesn’t seem to know the answer after about 7 calls/being on hold and bumped a […] -
Melanie Harvard wrote a new post, retirement age? 8 years, 8 months ago
does anyone know what the rules are around retirement age and claiming a govt pension (ie age required etc)? Also, once retired may someone claim the pension AND then do contract work?
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Hi Melanie,
For clarification – are you asking about when a Learnership agreement is terminated before the full period?
Learnership agreements for unemployed 18(2) learners are effectively fixed term contracts – that is the duration of the Learnership. Therefore, the contract automatically terminates on that end date.
So from my understanding, the only time one would want to have a notice period is when a termination is before that end date. To terminate a Learnership contract before the end date would be for a serious reason, related to the employer circumstances, or serious misdemeanour from the Learner, which may well justify a summary dismissal without notice..