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

Notices

National Norms and Standards for Funding Technical and Vocational Education and Training Colleges

A. Introduction

1 - 4. The Purpose of this Policy
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1.This policy governs all funding and expenditure by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) of programmes listed in the register of nationally approved programme offered by public TVET colleges. Furthermore, this policy establishes certain approaches and procedures that the DHET and public colleges should follow to improve alignment between different streams of public and private funding in the area of technical and vocational education and training.

 

2.This policy emanates from section 23 of the Continuing Education and Training (CET) Act, 2006 (Act No.16 of 2006), which requires the Minister of Higher Education and Training to determine norms and standards for the funding of public education and training colleges.

 

3.This policy is intended to advance a number of the goals of government relating to people's education rights, skills development, curriculum transformation, job creation, poverty alleviation, economic growth, regional cooperation and the building of a free, democratic and equitable South Africa. Some of the key government policy documents that inform this policy are the following: Education White Paper 4; White Paper for Post School Education and Training (PSET), A Programme for the Transformation of Further Education and Training (1998); A New Institutional Landscape for Public Further Education and Training Colleges (2001); Human Resource Development Strategy for South Africa (2001); National skills development strategy (2005); the National Certificate (Vocational): A Qualification on Levels 2, 3 and 4 of the NQF (2006).

 

4.This policy further represents a major consolidation and refining of Government's position on the public funding of programmes offered at TVET College. However, there are aspects of this policy that must inevitably change and be further refined as the education and training sector in the country evolves and develops. This policy must thus be read as an important milestone in a process of on-going debate and policy refinement with respect to the public funding of programmes offered at TVET College.