Welcome to the ISETT SETA

1. Welcome to the ISETT SETA 1 23456 78910 Business Development Skills Development Projects Learnerships Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) 111213141516171819202122 23242526272829

2. Business Development Wynand Van der Merwe Senior Manager: Business Development 27th March 2003 Cape Town

3. Business Development • Sector Skills Planning (SSP) & Research • Marketing & Communication • Approximately 8000 companies in the ISETT sector • Approximately 4000 are currently paying Skills Levies Back 1

4. SSP Statistics • Total No of WSP's Received:883 • No. of WSP's Approved:677 • No. of Pending WSP's:206 • Total no. of Registered SDF's:415 • No. of SDF's employed by companies:344 • No. of ISDF's:28 • No of companies represented by ISDF's:493 Back 2

5. The Sector Skills Plan • The SSP compiled by SETA’s must address 4 key aspects: • The environment in which the SETA operates, which includes National Policies, International Trends, and Research into opportunities for growth. • The sector in which it operates, e.g. number of employers, profile of employees, skills shortages, SMME opportunities, etc. • Demand for skills on all levels. • Current supply of skills. Back 3

6. The Sector Skills Plan (Cont.) • The SSP document is backed by: • Co-operative and independent research projects, both Nationally and Internationally. • Workplace Skills Plans prepared and submitted by employers. • Training Implementation Reports from employers. Back 4

7. Grant Participation F/Y 1, 2 and 3 Back 5

8. Highlights • New WSP and ATR Templates • New incentives for Increased Participation • Increased number of Research Projects • Improved turnaround time for Approvals • Higher Visibility and Responsiveness Back 6

9. THANK YOU!! Email Address: wynand.vdm@isett.org.za Back to home page

10. Skills Development Projects Teboho Mokoena Manager: Special Projects

11. Skills Programmes • ISETT SETA is currently funding 32 Skills Programmes impacting on a total number of 5830 learners, nationwide. • To date an amount of R38,10 million has been committed to support these initiatives. Back 7

12. Skills Programmes (Cont.) • Projects Geographical: Back 8

13. Skills Programmes (cont.) • These are programmes addressing the following SSP/NSDS targets: Back 9

14. Skills Programmes (cont.) Projects Future Plans: • Develop and align current skills programmes into Units Standards to progress into Learnerships – Structured Learning • Continue to develop skills programme addressing skills gaps within ISETT Sector • For transparency and operational purposes, skills programmes will be treated within legal and skill development framework, i.e. ISETT SETA Procurement Procedures and PFMA Back 10

15. THANK YOU!! Email Address: teboho.mokoena@isett.org.za Back to home page

16. Learnerships Lihle Dlamini Manager: Learnership and ETQA

17. What is a Learnership? • Work based education and training programme. • A route to a qualification registered on the NQF. • A minimum of 120 credits. • Comprises of fundamental, core and elective components. • Relates to an occupation. • Combines theory and workplace experience. Back 11

18. Why Learnership? • To fast track the development of current employees. • To offer current employees opportunities to acquire a qualification. • To serve as an entry point for young people into the industry. Back 12

19. Benefits of Learnership • Learner • Provides learner with a nationally recognised qualification • Recognizes and formalizes current employee`s experience and knowledge gained through many years of experience. • Provides a route to employment or self-employment. • Provides learners with theoretical/institutional and practical/on-the-job experience. Back 13

20. Benefits of Learnership • Employer • Provides qualified learners who have relevant work experience by the end of the Learnership. • Is a good way of acknowledging and affirming skills of existing employees. • Qualifies for a tax rebate calculated as follows: 18.1 Learner = R 42 500.00 18.2 Learner = R 50 000.00 Back 14

21. Registered Learnership • Each of these Learnership will take a minimum of 12 months to complete Back 15

22. Parties to the Learnership Agreement Learner ISETT SETA Training Provider Employer Back 16

23. PART A: Terms and Conditions of Agreement Declaration of the Parties Rights of Learners, Employer, registered Training providers Duties of Learners , Employers , registered Training providers Conditions for Terminating the Agreement Handling Dispute PART B: Details of parties to the Agreement Learnership details Learner details Parents or Guardian details Training provider details Terms and conditions of Employment (pre- and unemployed Learners) Signatures Learnership Agreement Back 17

24. ISETT SETA Procedures • Submission of letter of intent • Completion and signing of Learnership Agreement • Registration of Learnership Agreement • Implementation of Learnership Back 18

25. ISETT SETA Procedures(Cont.) • Unemployed and Pre-employed • An allowance is paid to the learner by the employer • A contract of employment must be entered into with learner • Conditions of service as spelled out in the Learnership Determination Regulations apply Back 19

26. Eligibility for Participation • The following conditions apply for organisations to be able to participate in Learnership • Organisation will be registered levy paying constituent of ISETT SETA • The 18.2 learners entering the programme, preference to be given to the previously disadvantaged as reflected by NSDS • Willingness to provide workplace/experiential learning Back 20

27. Guide to Implementing a Learnership Establish the need Prepare the Organization Manage, Support and Administer the Learnership Evaluate the Programme Develop an implementation Plan Implement the Learnership Back 21

28. Process for registration of Agreement Employer, Learner and Provider completes Agreement Employer sends a copy of agreement to ISETT SETA The SETA decide whether or not to register a Learnership agreement within two weeks of receiving the Learnership agreement ISETT SETA Verifies information, records and registers each Agreement (Signed and dated) ISETT SETA sends one copy of each registered Agreement to Employer END Back 22

29. ISETT SETAEducation and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) Back to home page

30. ETQA Functions Key responsibilities: Accredit constituent providers Monitor and audit providers Register constituent assessors Evaluate assessments and facilitate moderations among constituent providers Quality assure US and Qualifications Take responsibility for the certifications of learners Back 23

31. Accreditation of Training Providers Back 24

32. Accreditation Requirements Platform Learner Support Programme Practitioner Back 25

33. Platform: Organization • Learning Programme • Learning Environment • Quality Management System Back 26

34. Programme Requirements • Unit Standard Alignment • Learner Support Back 27

35. ETD Staff Back 28

36. ETQA Process Flow Submit application/ Intention to get accredited Complete self Assessment Questionnaire Accreditation and Listing on the ISETT SETA’s Website Work on your Policies, Procedures, Systems and Processes ISETT SETA to notify of Accreditation Status ISETT SETA to conduct a site visit Submit Final Documentation Back 29

37. THANK YOU!! Email Address: lihle.dlamini@isett.org.za Please visit our website: http://www.isett.org.za/ Back to home page