Pat Wessels

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The Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), has issued the following call for applications.
Appointment of a Panel of pre-qualified researchers & related professionals to provide consultancy services to the Inclusive Growth Programme (IGP)
The…[Read more]

The Minister of Higher Education and Training – our Dr Naledi Pandor – has published a draft bill for comment.

The intention of the proposed legislation is to provide:

• a Central Application Service for the public post-school education sector providing a central application service for all public post-school education and training…

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“RPL in South Africa is hampered by a number of barriers relating to the delivery, quality assurance and resourcing of RPL.”(Foreword p3)

This acknowledgment by SAQA is incredibly important, because the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) constitutes a key instrument of redress, for past exclusion of people from education and training, and…[Read more]

Congratulations to our DHET Minister Naledi Pandor for achieving her Doctorate in Education from the University of Pretoria.

Her thesis is:
Contested meanings of transformation in higher education in post-apartheid South Africa by Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor.

Our DHET Minister – walking the talk on lifelong learning.

Opening lines of the CEO’s report:

“The team at Skills Portal and Careers Portal are very excited that we will be celebrating our 16th birthday this year. That’s right, we’ve been in the online publishing business since the days of dial-up modems (anyone remember them?).”

Please see the CEO’s report attached – with statistics -including the…[Read more]

Please help me,

As you know, there is a compulsory application to register with the DHET if you are an accredited provider (whether with SETA(s) and/or QCTO. I have been working with various providers nationwide, when this process started, and we have engaged with the DHET a number of times (since the beginning of 2017). For some providers it has…[Read more]

Over the last year there have been a number of amendments to the standards relating to 123259 Convey dangerous goods by road, the unit standard allocated for Certification of drivers of Dangerous Goods vehicles. These standards are:

• SANS 10231:2019 Transport of dangerous goods by road — Operational requirements
• SANS 10232-1:2018 Part 1: Em…[Read more]

NQF Amendment Bill seeks to protect the publicl

“The Bill, which is currently awaiting the president’s signature, makes provision for the registration by the Department of Higher Education and Training of all private education institutions and skills development providers as well as for the accreditation of these providers by the Quality C…[Read more]