Welcome to the ISETT SETA

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Welcome to the ISETT SETA

• Business Development
• Skills Development Projects
• Learnerships
• Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA)

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Business Development
Wynand Van der Merwe Senior Manager Business
Development 06th April 2003 Gauteng
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Business Development Division

• Sector Skills Planning (SSP) Research
• Evaluate, analyse, and approve WSPs, ATRs and
  Discretionary Grant submissions
• Conduct Research Projects
• Compile the Sector Skills Plan
• Marketing Communication
• Media Liaison
• Promote Learnerships
• Communicate with Stakeholders

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Stakeholder Statistics

• Approximately 8000 companies in the ISETT sector
• Approximately 4000 are currently paying Skills
  Levies
• More than 80 SMMEs

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SSP Statistics

• Total No of WSP's Received 905
• No. of WSP's Approved 702
• No. of Pending WSP's 203
• No. of beneficiaries indicated in WSPs 97322
• No. of companies involved in
• structured learning programmes 905
• 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

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The Sector Skills Plan

• The SSP compiled by SETAs 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

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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

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Grant Participation F/Y 1, 2 and 3
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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

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Skills Programmes

• ISETT SETA is currently funding 34 Skills
  Programmes impacting on a total number of 5830
  learners, nationwide
• 600 learners have completed their training, of
  which
• 60 learners are studying further
• 140 learners are employed
• 130 learners are self-employed
• 170 learners are unemployed
• 1500 learners have completed Maths Science
  Programmes
• 4000 learners will complete skills programmes by
  30th March 2004
• To date an amount of R38,10 million has been
  committed to support these initiatives

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Projects Geographical Spread
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Skills Programmes Matrix
Area of skill Learners Intervention Province
Maths and Science 1500 Saturday and holiday classes EC KZN LMP GP NW
Software dev 105 Java, C, VB, HTML WC KZN LMP GP
Computer literacy 2500 Computer literacy GP FS MPL
SMME Dev 500 Mentorship Business skills Country wide
Technology Mobile (bus) 44000 Awareness, literacy EC
Retrenched workers 6407 Telecomms tech Countrywide
Telecomms Engneers 100 Telecomms Technicians GP
Electronic Procurement 20 Computer literacy and Entrepreneurial skills FS MPL KZN
ABET 160 ABET EC
Networking 250 A,MCSE, Cisco NC, GP
Telecoms skills/ Electronic skills 1125 Postgraduate Technicians Calibration Rural telecoms Countrywide
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Future Plans

• Develop and align current skills programmes into
  Units Standards to progress into Learnerships
  Structured Learning

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THANK YOU!!
Email Address wynand.vdm_at_isett.org.za
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Learnerships
Lihle Dlamini Manager Learnership and ETQA
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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

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Why Learnerships?

• 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

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Benefits of Learnerships

• Learner
• Provides learner with a nationally recognised
  qualification
• Recognizes and formalizes current employees
  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

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Benefits of Learnerships

• 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

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Registered Learnerships

• Each of these Learnership will take a minimum of
  12 months to complete
• ISETT SETA will pay R25 000.00 per learner for
  the training
• National Certificate Information Technology
  Systems Development Level 4
• National Certificate Information Technology
  Systems Development Level 5
• National Certificate Information Technology
  Systems Support Level 4
• National Certificate in Systems Support Level 5
• National Certificate in Systems Support
  Engineering Level 5

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Parties to the Learnership Agreement
Learner
ISETT SETA
Training Provider
Employer
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Learnership Agreement

• 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

• 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

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ISETT SETA Procedures

• Submission of letter of intent
• Completion and signing of Learnership Agreement
• Registration of Learnership Agreement
• Implementation of Learnership

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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

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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

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Guide to Implementing a Learnership
Prepare the Organization
Establish the need
Manage, Support and Administer the Learnership
Evaluate the Programme
Develop an implementation Plan
Implement the Learnership
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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
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ISETT SETAEducation and Training Quality
Assurance (ETQA)
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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

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Accreditation of Training Providers
Provider Model
Delivery
Assessment
Provider
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Accreditation Requirements
Platform
Learner Support
Programme
Practitioner
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Platform Organisation

• Learning Programme
• Learning Environment
• Quality Management System

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Programme Requirements
Approval
Programme Strategy
Curriculum Guide
Assessment Guide

• Unit Standard Alignment
• Learner Support

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ETD Staff
ETD Staff
Assessors
Moderators
Other
Facilitator
Technical
Assessor
Coach
Assessor
Moderator
Mentor
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ETQA Process Flow
Submit application/ Intention to get accredited
Complete self Assessment Questionnaire
Accreditation and Listing on the ISETT SETAs
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
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Year 2003/4 Targets

• Implement all three learnerships
• A minimum of 1000 learners to complete
  learnerships
• Finalize MOUs with other SETAs
• Register Skills Programmes
• Accredit currently Approved Training Providers

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THANK YOU!!
Email Address lihle.dlamini_at_isett.org.za
Please visit our website http//www.isett.org.
za/
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WELCOME

• ISETT SETA
• GAUTENG OUTREACH
• BREAKFAST SESSION
• 06th May 2003
• Midrand

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