ISETT-ISSA

Learnership Development Project

Presented byNeville Nicholas

ISETT SETA Project Manager

Presentation to the ISETT SETA Board

10th May 2002

Agenda

• Background on ISSA• Project Objective• Specific Outcomes• Summary Project Overview• Project Stakeholders & Role-players• Overview of the Project Plan

The Project In a Nutshell

• Three year duration

• Transforming 4 ISSA programmes to learnerships

• Managed by ISETT SETA - the Executing Agency

• Funded the the NSF

Background on ISSA• Institute for Satellite and Software Applications

• ISSA is situated in the space facilities built near Grabouw in the 1980s, at Houwteq in the Western Cape area

• The facility was built to house systems for the design, programme management, integration and testing of small satellites and launch vehicles

• ISSA started operating as a training institute from 1998, created and operated by (DoC)

Project Objective• To produce human resource capabilities for the SA

ICT Sector, through the transferable means of learnerships,

• Addressing the needs of PDIs.

• To be achieved through transforming existing programmes at ISSA into learnerships.

• Additional indirect contributions to the ICT Sector and the learnership development process, for example development of unit standards, some of which can be employed in other learnerships.

Specific Outcomes • The development of four learnerships

• To have all (530) graduates placed into SMME or Workplace Provider establishments over the three-year course of the project

• To achieve at least an 80% satisfaction rating from the establishments in which learners are placed

• To achieve at least a 50% learner sponsorship (while the learner is undergoing the Training Provider component) from the ICT Sector by the end of this project

Specific Outcomes (cont.)

• To gain the interest of at least two other universities in South Africa to adopt these learnerships

• To strive for 10% of graduates entering into the R&D/SMME environment

• To establish a graduate tracking process

Project Stakeholders & Role-playersDoL/NSFFunder

DoCInitiator

ISSATraining Provider/

Implementor

ISETT SETAExecuting Agency

Industry (IISA)Skills Demand SectorWorkplace Providers

Industry (SGBs)Skills/Learnership

Definition

R&D Support Providers

Bandwidth BarnInnovation Hub

Other GovtDACST, DTI

CHEFinal accrediting body

Project Consultative Committee

Reference Group

Overview of Project Plan

Stage 1Project Initiation &

Operation

Stage 2Generic

Learnership Processes &

Systems

Stage 3Learnership

Development & Implementation

Stage 4Project

Management

Develop Project Plan & ProposalProject Office Set-up & Operational

DesignDevelopment & Execution of

Communications PlanFormation of Project Consultative

Committee (PCC)

PlanningFinanceReportingQuality Management System

Overview of Project Plan

• Stage 2: Generic Learnership Processes & Systems

– General Administration– Develop Assessment Policies– Develop Agreements– Learnership Databases– Learnership Management & Reporting Processes– Learner Placement Processes & Systems– Learner Tracking Processes & Systems– Develop ISSA Practices, Policies, & Procedures (as a training

provider)

Overview of Project Plan• Stage 3: Learnership Development & Implementation

– Learnership Scoping Document

– Learnership Stakeholder Participation

– Learnership Definition

– Learnership Unit Standard Development

– Learnership Registration

– Assess Demand for the Learnership

– Set Up for & monitor Training Provider

– Set Up for & monitor SMMEs

– Set Up for & monitor Lecturers

– Set Up for & monitor Learners

– Set Up for & monitor Workplace Providers

Many thanks for your time and interest