Overview
The LED Unit operates within the ETDQA division and the Unit is responsible for planning, developing and monitoring the implementation of Learnerships and skills programmes in accordance with the identified needs from the sector skills plan i.e.
- Develop and register Learnerships that address the needs of the sector, are educationally sound and address scarce skills
- Liaise with the Quality Assurance Unit and the Chemical Industries Standards Generating Bodies and advise them of the needs identified in the sector
- Develop skills programmes for scarce and critical skills
- Develop learning materials where relevant
What is Learnership?
A Learnership is a work-based route for learning and gaining a qualification within the National Qualifications Framework from level one to eight.
Learnerships include both structured work experience (i.e. a practical component) and instructional learning (i.e. theory learning component). Learnerships relate to an occupation.
Learnerships must:
- Be planned and appropriate combination of learning outcomes with a defined purpose;
- Provide qualifying learners with applied competence and a basis for further learning;
- Be made up of the Fundamental, Core and Elective unit standards components
- Must have specified exit level outcomes;
- Should achieve the required credits within a range of 40% to 60% at the workplace;
- Culminate in a qualification registered on a qualification registered on the NQF.
Legal structure of a Learnership
According to the Learnership Regulations of the Department of Labour, Learnerships are entered into by the three following parties, i.e.
- Learner
- Employer
- Accredited Training provider
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