"Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education".
- Martin Luther King

Standard Operational Procedures (SOP)

QCTO & SETA Programmes Delivery Practice

QCTO – Qualifications & Part Qualifications (Occupational Certificates)

Phase 1
  • Contractual Agreement with Client
  • Development & Adoption of a Project Implement Plan
  • Communication of programme information to the client project manager and learners
Phase 2
  • Learner induction workshop
  • Learner enrolment with the QCTO
Phase 3
Contact Sessions
  • Knowledge & Practicals Modules
    Formative Assessment Tasks Completion
Phase 4
Work Modules
  • Learner placement with host employers
  • Mentoring
  • Learner Monitoring
  • Completion of log book tasks
Phase 5
  • Assessment and Moderation
  • Summative assessment results
  • Issuing of statement of results (SoRs)
  • Reporting to the QCTO – Internal Assessment & Moderation report & SoRs
  • QCTO liaison with the relevant Assessment Quality Partner/SETA
Phase 6
Learner Preparation for EISA
  • Revision work
  • Conducting Mock External Integrated Summative Assessments (EISA)
  • Confirmation of EISA dates and Assessment Centre
Phase 7
Management of EISA by the relevant AQP/SETA
  • Conducting EISA at a QCTO registered assessment centre
  • Marking
  • Moderation
  • Submittion of EISA results to the QCTO.
Phase 8
  • Quality Assurance of Submission by the AQP/SETA
  • Award of certificates to VB Skills Development Institute
Phase 9
Project Closure
  • Project close out report
  • Issuing SoRs & Certificates to the client/learners

QCTO – Registered Skills Programmes

Phase 1
  • Contractual Agreement with Client
  • Development & Adoption of a Project Implement Plan
  • Communication of programme information to the client project manager and learners
Phase 2
  • Learner induction workshop
  • Learner enrolment with the QCTO
Phase 3
Contact Sessions
  • Knowledge & Practicals Modules
  • Formative Assessment Tasks Completion
Phase 4
Work Integrated Learning
  • Learner placement with host employers (if applicable)
  • Mentoring
  • Learner Monitoring
  • Completion of log book tasks
Phase 5
Administration of Final Integrated Summative Assessment - FISA
  • Conducting the QCTO approved FISA instrument.
  • Marking & Moderation
  • Submittion of FISA results to the QCTO.
Phase 6
QCTO Quality Assurance Processes of the FISA Submission.
  • Approval/Disapproval - Remediation
  • Award of SoRs & Certificates of Competence to VB Skills
Phase 7
Project Closure
  • Project close out report
  • Issuing SoRs & Certificates to the client/learners

SETA – Qualifications, Learnerships & Skills Programmes

Phase 1
  • Contractual Agreement with Client
  • Development & Adoption of a Project Implement Plan
  • Communication of programme information to the client project manager and learners
Phase 2
  • Learner induction workshop
  • Training Delivery Logistics
  • Learner enrolment with the relevant SETA.
Phase 3
Contact Sessions
  • Knowledge & Practicals Modules
  • Formative Assessment Tasks Completion
Phase 4
Post Training Activities
  • Workplace Exposure
  • Completion of Summative Assessment Tasks
  • Final Summative Assessment
Phase 5
Management of Learner Achievements
  • Assessments conducted by a constituent assessor
  • Internal Moderation
  • Assessment and Internal Moderation Report
  • SETA liaison
Phase 6
External Moderation by the SETA
  • Verification visit - Training delivery auditing
  • External Moderation report (Report recommends certification of candidates or recommends remediation)
  • Issuing of Statements of Results & Certificate of Competence
Phase 7
Project Closure
  • Project close out report
  • Issuing SoRs & Certificates to the client/learners

ACCREDITED TRAINING PRACTICE

All our courses are on the SAQA National Qualification Framework are vary according to levels

  • NQF Level 1 – 5

    Duration of study & assessment is 1 year

  • NQF Level 6 – 7

    Duration of study & assessment is 2 years.

  • Skills Programmes (a cluster of unit standards belonging to the same qualification)

    The duration is determined by the total credits which are then multiplied by 10 notional hours to determine the allocation of time for theory, practicals and work integrated learning (WIL)

Certification

All our courses are on the SAQA National Qualification Framework are vary according to levels

  • For learnerships and occupational qualifications, the certificate is issued by appropriate quality assurance body, either the SETA or the QCTO

  • All certificates be they for short courses or qualifications/learnerships are issued out with an accompanying statement of results (SoR) from the appropriate SETA or the QCTO.

  • VB Skills only issues a certificate for a short course successfully completed after receiving a state of results from the appropriate SETA

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