Continuing Education and Training Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006)

The process of forming possibilities of connection between qualifications and /or part qualifications to allow for the vertical, lateral and diagonal movement of learners through the formal education and training system and its linkages with the world of work.

Devices that assist people with disabilities in particular those with severe disabilities to enhance their quality of life by promoting independence.

Systematic and/or intrinsic difficulties that prevent students from effective learning.

Services and activities intended to assist individuals of any age and at any point of their lives, to make educational, training, and occupational choices and to manage their careers. Such services may be found in schools, universities, and colleges, in training institutions, in public employment services, in the workplace, in the voluntary or community sector and in the private sector.

Community is defined as being located within and contributing to the local needs and development, building social agency and social cohesion.

The number of students who successfully complete a GETC: ABET Level 4 qualification in the academic year, expressed as a percentage of the number of students who were eligible to complete the GETC: ABET Level 4 qualification and wrote the examinations in that academic year.

Disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers. People with disabilities as those persons who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, neurological, psychological, or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

Learning that takes place in all contexts in life - formally, non-formally and informally. It includes learning behaviors and obtaining knowledge; understanding; attitudes; values and competencies for personal growth, social and economic well-being, democratic citizenship, cultural identity, and employability.

The method by which learning is taking place. This may include mediation of courses and programmes by single modes either by distance or contact-based methodologies, to dual and mixed-mode where courses and programmes are mediated by a range of distance, resource-based and contact-based methods, with the blend varying from context to context.

Any educational resource (including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning that are published under an open licence and are available for use without any accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees. Openly licenced content can be produced in any medium: text, video, or computer-based multimedia.

The principles and processes through which the prior knowledge and skills of a person are made visible, mediated, and assessed for the purposes of alternative access and admission, recognition and certification, or further learning and development.

Any person registered as a student at a college.