South Africa – Skills and vocational training need rethink

Late in 2008, Acts were passed to make substantial changes to the first post-1994 national qualifications framework. It was split into three linked frameworks, each with its own quality council: Umalusi, the Higher Education Quality Council and the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations.

This signified a dramatic policy shift and the introduction of the second national qualifications framework. One effect was to reduce substantially the role of the South African Qualifications Authority to co-ordinate developments between the three councils.

The authority’s power to set standards was handed to the three councils, which all seem set on operating in ways that are not only substantially different from the authority’s outcomes-based qualifications, but also different from each other…

via Skills and vocational training need rethink on qualifications | Education | Adult | Mail & Guardian.