Reviewing the Role of SETAs in Education and Training

Presentation to

HR CROSSROADS Conference

by: M.C. MEHL

What SETA’s are trying to do

• Define learning in different contexts

• SSETA: ca 64000 companies

• Business Services Chamber: ca 37000 chambers

• Only 8% in country have degrees

• Who cares for the 92%?

• No place for competition

PROCESS FLOW

• Develop Qualifications Frameworks

• Determine Learnerships in demand

• Define specific qualifications to underpin learnerships including unit standards

• Register with SAQA and DoL respectively

• Develop Work- and Logbooks

• Establish partnerships for delivery

WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?

Senge Definition:

“Knowledge is the capacity for effective action”

Know about things

Knowing how

KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE: DISCIPLINARY

• Textbooks

• Courses

• Modules

• Assessment easily achieved, both

• Formative

• Summative

KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE: TRANS-DISCIPLINARY

• “TO DO” KNOWLEDGE

• Know what to do

• Know how to do it

• Know why to do it

• CRUCIALLY: CAN YOU DO IT?

• “Skills” in Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN SOCIETY (1)

• Disciplinary with associated Q.F.

• Trans-disciplinary: Lack of codified knowledge and associated Q.F.

KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN SOCIETY (2)

• “Traditional ways of producing knowledge within single disciplines and institutions are being supplemented by knowledge generated within various applied contexts. This is knowledge that is collaboratively created…directed to problems in social and economic systems…..” (DACST, 1996)

THE NQF

A National Qualifications Framework that integrates all elements of the

education & training system to enable learner progress from any starting

point

Q.F’s WITHIN THE NQF• Whole qualifications: Disciplinary bias and

restricted to universities and technikons

• Curriculum Statements based qualifications: Disciplinary bias and restricted to school-level

• Unit Standards based qualifications: Trans-disciplinary and emerging among SETA’s

PRINCIPLES OF A Q.F.

• Personal/ individual choice

• Company choice

• Capacity for choice

• Fit for purpose

• Allows progression and advancement

• Allows cross-sectoral mobility

WHAT IS/ IS NOT A Q.F.

• IS: An enabling environment which assists learners in choosing and combining appropriate knowledge areas into recognized qualifications

• IS NOT: The set of qualifications itself across the levels of the NQF

THE TRANS-DISCIPLINARY, SECTORAL Q.F.

• Functions that need to be performed

• The knowledge that underpins the function

• The Q.F. that encapsulates that knowledge

SECTOR QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK

• Establishes a Functional Taxonomy (F.T.) of the sector

• Establishes the Knowledge Taxonomy (K.T.) that underpins these functions

• Creates a 3-D grid with NQF Level being the third axis

• Identifies Unit Standards at the Intersection of F.T. & K.T. at all NQF levels

THE UNIT STANDARD

• Learning Outcomes that must be achieved

• Assessment Criteria to determine whether these have been achieved

• The knowledge on which the learning is based

• The administration of the learning process

THE SETA’S RESPONSIBILITY

• Establish and maintain the Q.F with SAQA

• Generate the requisite Unit Standards

• Register the number of qualifications from NQF Level 2 - 8

• Create Learnerships on demand from companies by appropriate combinations

• Register same

PILLARS OF S.A. H.R. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

• Knowledge is produced in society in numerous areas of social and economic endeavours

• The entire nation needs to be set on a path of Lifelong Learning

Take A Personal JourneyDeath

Birth

School

Work

Certification

Books

SportRecreation

Sport

TV

Religion

YouthClubs

The Implication

You Know Much More Than You Think You Know

What Qualification Do You Actually Have?

People Development Business Consulting QF (H.R.)

NQF Level 8

NQF Level 7

NQF Level 6

NQF Level 5

Top levelSpecialist Business Consultancy

High levelSpecialist Business Consultant

Masters & Honoursx - Learnerships

2nd levelSpecialist Business Employee

Toward MBA Consulting Expertise e.g. HR

Entry levelSpecialist Business Employee

B-Degree Equivalenty - Learnerships

Diplomaz - Learnerships

Certificate2/3 - Learnerships

Implementation Model

Develop Faculty

Total: 8500 People in Learnerships

1600(handle 4)

100(handle 4)

400(handle 4)

6400

Hotshots – Future Faculty

Warmshots

Developing Warmshots

Need:

•Learning Programme

•Coaching/Mentoring Programme

•Management System

Changing the Paradigm

• Albert Einstein:

• You cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created it

The Challenge to Technikons & Universities

• From 30000 to 130000

• Establish Partnerships– With SETA’s– With Workplaces– with Professional Bodies– With non-traditional learners

CONSIDER:

• Albert Einstein: Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible

• Henry Ford: If you believe that you can or you believe that you can’t - you’re right