Ms Nombulelo Nxesi ETDP SETA

SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND RECREATION

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2014

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1. Mandate of the ETDP SETA

2. Five-Year Strategy – Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals

3. Programmes to respond to the Goals

4. Key Projects

5. Support provided to provinces

6. Overall performance

7. Successes and Challenges

1. Mandate of the ETDP SETA

2. Five-Year Strategy – Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals

3. Programmes to respond to the Goals

4. Key Projects

5. Support provided to provinces

6. Overall performance

7. Successes and Challenges

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Mandate of the ETDP SETA

The core responsibility of SETA is to develop Sector Skills Plan (SSP).

The SSP provides the: Profile of the labour force within the sector supply and demand - the current and projected needs of the sector and sector employers It identifies areas of skills growth and skills need It identifies the Strategies & Interventions to address the skills priorities

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Strategic Plan Overview - Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals

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Programme 8:Improving

Organisational Performance

Through Effective and Efficient Leadership,

Management and Administration

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Programme 1: Development of a credible Sector Skills Plan – Sub-Programmes

To create an institutional capacity for skills planning and mechanisms for addressing skills development needs and interventions in the ETD sector.

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3.2 Programme 2: Supporting FET institutions to be responsive to the ETD sector and national priorities

To enhance the capacity of the FET institutions to provide skills development in order to deliver on vocational and occupationally directed programmes in the further education and training sector.

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Programme 3: Teacher Development in support of the ISPFTED-SATo develop competent and professional human resource capital for the schooling sector by supporting the ISPFTED-SA.

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Programme 4: Increasing access to and graduate output in Higher Education and Further Education and Training institutions

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Programme 5: Youth development through increasing access to workplace learning

To provide the youth with workplace learning and experience in order to achieve competence in

occupationally directed programmes for intermediate and high level skills.

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Programme 6: Constituency support through skills development

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Programme 7: Strengthening the Quality Assurance System and improving Monitoring and Evaluation impactTo ensure effective and efficient systems for quality provisioning of skills development, credit bearing programmes for the ETD sector and ETDP SETA constituencies.

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Key Projects

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Special Projects Organization of Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) Technical, Vocational

Education and Training (TVET) Review Project

◦ ETDP SETA collaborated with DHET to facilitate and coordinate the review of vocational

education and training conducted by the OECD to strengthen the South African TVET college

systemassays

FET Infrastructure

◦ A liability of R31,556m was raised in 2013/14 to cover the commitment that the ETDP SETA

had made toward the payment of FET Infrastructure a required by DHET.

◦ The liability will be reduced by tranche payments over the next two financial years.

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Flagship Projects Placement of Career Development Officers (CDOs) in 50 TVET Colleges Project

◦ The ETDP SETA placed 200 unemployed graduates as CDOs in 50 TVET colleges for the past

three years, increasing it by 113 in 2013/14 to expand the project to TVET college campuses.

The project has elevated career guidance provisioning within the TVET colleges.

School Administration Assistant Project

◦ 1250 unemployment Grade 12 learners placed as school administration assistants in under-

performing schools to strengthen their school administration.

◦ The second phase of the project is to enrol these learners on programmes related to their

work. So far 250 have been enrolled on End-User Computing programme in Limpopo.

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Flagship Projects(contd.) Research Chair Project

◦ The ETDP SETA has now established four Research Chairs in four public higher education institutions (HEIs); Wits, UP, NWU and UKZN.

◦ This is a multiyear project focusing on strengthening the ETDP SETA internal research capacity by undertaking various research

projects on behalf of the SETA.

◦ The project is only taking off in earnest now as it normally takes 6 to 12 months to establish a Research Chair at public HEIs.

Grade 12/Matric Second Chance Re-write Project

◦ This is a project implemented in partnership with the National Youth Development Agency.

◦ The partnership has been in place since the 2011/12 financial year and over 10 000 young people, who failed at least four gateway

subjects (Maths, Physical Science, Accounting and Natural Science, have benefited through the programme.

◦ For the first time 10 top achievers from the programme were awarded bursaries/scholarships in 2013/14 financial year.

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Work integrated learning (WIL) - toward an efficient TVET system

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435 lecturers to date have participated in the ETDP SETA’s

WIL project

280 are currently in the project for 2014/15

Workplace experiential learning Supporting students from TVET Colleges and Universities of Technology

Students are placed with employers to enable them to:◦ fulfil their curriculum requirements◦ gain experience for employability

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So far 1 429 students have been placed.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

An attempt to accelerate the training and the awarding of the NQF Level qualifications to the ECD and Community Development practitioners.

Partnerships in place for the establishment of RPL centres:◦ Orbit College in the North West Province ◦ UMgungundlovu in KwaZulu-Natal

Research has been commissioned for the profiling of the learners who will participate in the RPL project

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The ETDP SETA Footprint...

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Overview of Provincial Participation

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Programme 1: Development of a credible Sector Skills Plan

Programme 2: Supporting FET and HE Institutions to be responsive to the ETD sector and national priorities

Programme 3: Teacher development in support of the ISPFTED-SA

Programme 4: Increasing student access to and graduate output in HE and FET Institutions

Programme 5: Youth Development for employability

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PROGRAMME 1

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PROGRAMME 2

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PROGRAMME 3

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PROGRAMME 3 (contd.)

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PROGRAMME 4

In 2013/14 bursary funds were transferred to NSFAS

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PROGRAMME 5

Programme 1OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Three-year WSPR submission trend per employer size

This shows that since 2011/12 reporting period:•there has been steady and consistent increase of a number of WSPR submissions by employer size•the ETD Sector is largely made up of small levy paying employers.

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SDFs trained in the use of the scarce and critical skills guide

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Distribution of the scarce and critical skills guides

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Programme 1: Achievements against targetsStrategic Objectives Planned Target Actual Achievement

To put in place the research agenda and strategy as well as the skills planning systems including monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment frameworks

Learner tracking and tracing study in place

Learner tracking and tracing study is underway

Annual Stakeholder Survey conducted and completed

Annual Stakeholder Survey Report available

Evaluation study conducted (workplace experience, internships, learnerships and apprenticeships)

Evaluation Study Report available

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Programme 2OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Programme 2: Achievements against targetsStrategic Objectives Planned Target Actual

AchievementTo expand the delivery mechanisms and improve the PIVOTAL programmes

25 FET Colleges extend their scope to deliver ETD occupational qualifications

2012/13: 30 2013/14: 10

50 FET Colleges registered as workplace learning sites

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To strengthen student liaison services in FET Colleges and enhance career guidance to improve career choices of students in and around the FET Colleges

200 interns trained and placed, 4 per college for student support and career guidance information dissemination

2012/13:2002014/15: 113

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Programme 3OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Programme 4OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Programme 5OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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UNEMPLOYED Youth Placed on Internships

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Programme 6OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Programme 6: Achievements against targetsStrategic Objectives Five Year

TargetActual Achievement

To provide support to Trade Unions beneficiaries 500 554To provide support to Political Parties beneficiaries 450 180To provide support to NPOs beneficiaries 550 684To provide support to Private Providers through APPETD and non-APPETD

540 50

To provide support to Independent Schools beneficiaries – NAISA

440 228

To Support Trade Unions Institutes 5 institutes 3

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Programme 6: Achievements against targetsStrategic Objectives Five year

TargetActual Achievement

To provide support to HEIs and HESA 23 23

To provide support to Research Organisations 100 32

To provide support to SGB beneficiaries 100 108

To provide support to LIASA 100 64

To provide support to Teacher Unions beneficiaries 500 1 204

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Performance against Transformation Goals

• ETDP SETA improved its performance in all areas in relation to its equity targets from the 2012/2013 to the 2013/2014 financial years.

• The organisation has doubled the support for people living with disabilities.• The SETA continues to strive to achieve its internally set target of 5% on supporting people with disabilities.

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Total number of learners supported

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Total supported

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28 896

Programme 7OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT PER PROGRAMME

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Programme 7: Achievements against targets

Strategic Objectives Planned Target Actual AchievementTo ensure the DQP strategy in

placePolicies in line with QCTO

requirementsAchieved

To ensure the development of nationally standardised

assessments

SLA with QCTO as AQP and setting up of assessment

centres

SLA as AQP with QCTO is in place

To develop materials for 4 occupational qualifications

Materials developed for occupational qualifications

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To ensure accreditation/ extension of scope

100% of applications of new and/or emerging providers’

applications for accreditation or extension of scope are ratified

All applications received and ratified

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Programme 7: Achievements against targetsStrategic Objectives Planned Target Actual AchievementTo ensure that registered

occupational qualifications are in place

Occupational qualifications developed and completed

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To process 100% of providers verification

applications

100% of learners who complete programmes to

receive certificates

13 598 learners certificated on full qualifications

61 215 learners endorsed on Unit

Standards based programmes

To verify 100% of providers 100% of providers’

applications received for verification are processed

Applications received and processed

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Programme 7: Achievements against targets

Strategic Objectives Planned Target Actual Achievement

To ensure that the approved RPL strategy is in place

200 learners to pilot RPL (ComDev and ECD

Programmes)

Research commissioned to profile the learners for the RPL

project – in progressTo establish 2 RPL centres 2 RPL centres are established 2To process applications for accreditation, extension of

scope and learning programme

100% of applications received are processed

All applications received and processed

To support the re-engineering of the ABET sub-sector through the ETDP SETA participation at

national level

The ETDP SETA supports the DHET’s ABET sub-sector re-

engineering

Research on the establishment of community centres currently

underway

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Successes and challenges

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