General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act, 2001 (Act No. 58 of 2001)Policy for the Quality Assurance of Private Adult Learning Centres, Private Further Education and Training Colleges and the Accreditation of Private Assessment Bodies in terms of Sections 17A(2)(a) and 23Chapter 2 : Rationale and application of the policy3. Principles |
| 1) | The QC for the sub-framework in General and Further Education and Training, aims to achieve quality assurance of - |
| a) | an education institution that offers provision towards the achievement of a qualification or part qualifications on the sub-framework; and |
| b) | assessment and the accreditation and monitoring of an assessment body that externally examine the qualification or part qualifications. |
| 2) | Quality assurance consists of a combination of practices that include- |
| a) | inspection of an education institution. |
| b) | the institutional quality assurance system supports the principles of participation and transparency and includes the internationally accepted practice of peer review, validation and monitoring. |
| c) | in respect of the assessment system, the approach pursues a multi-faceted, but coherent system in which there is a common set of standards and criteria for both public and private assessment structures. |
| 3) | The accreditation of an assessment body requires compliance against a set of criteria in the provisional accreditation phase, self-evaluation to support development and improvement in the accreditation phase, and external evaluation and monitoring to verify and ensure continued quality provision and delivery. |