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The 2010s

2010

C2 in C3. Thinking about the codification and contextualization of learning in the new South African National Qualifications Framework Author: Keevy, J. Date: 2010 Reference: Keevy, J. 2010. C2 in C3. Thinking about the codification and contextualization of learning in the new South African National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority [Paper presented at the SAQA NQF Research Conference 2010] Description: Describes the modest and pragmatic gains of the NQF against the ambitious original strong transformative purpose, the lessons learned, its gradual migration away from a strong behaviorist and outcomes‐based model to a more constructivist and contextual one. Keywords: NQF, qualifications, curriculum, certification, assessment, ideology

Draft interim Qualifications and assessment policy framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults: a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Author: Department of Education Date: 20100226 Reference: Department of Education. 2010. Draft interim Qualifications and assessment policy framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults: a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Government Gazette, Number 32987, 26 February 2010 Description: Provides a policy for the General Education and Training Certificatre for ABET, describes its structure, assessment, and a list of the compulsory ("fundamental") and optional ("electives") subjects ("learning areas"), and issues a call for public comment Keywords: adult basic education, training, NQF, qualifications, curriculum, certification, assessment

Aitchison submission on the Draft Interim Qualifications and Assessment Policy Framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 201003 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2010. Aitchison submission on the Draft Interim Qualifications and Assessment Policy Framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Criticises the draft for not addressing longstanding criticisms of the ABET system, for not also dealing with private, non-state providers, poor understanding of assessment termonology, an unneccesary age qualification Keywords: adult basic education, qualifications, certification, assessment

Presentation to Portfolio Committee: Education services to offenders Author: Department of Correctional Services Date: 20100505 Reference: Department of Correctional Services. 2010. Presentation to Portfolio Committee: Education services to offenders. Pretoria: Department of Correctional Services Description: Presentation that briefly describes the mandates for education and training provision to people in prison, what is provided (ECD to babies and toddlers who are with their incarcerated mothers, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, computers use) and some of the challenges to delivery Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, KRG, trainers, adult further education, computers, practitioners

Institutional Management and Governance Minute: 0007/2010 Author: Western Cape Education Department Date: 2010614 Reference: Western Cape Education Department. 2010. Institutional Management and Governance Minute: 0007/2010. Cape Town: Western Cape Education Department Description: Describes issues related to the remuneration of Community Centre managers and site-co-ordinators including what data on enrolment and employment and materials is available. Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, CLs, PALCs, statistics, governance, finance, Western Cape

Activists within the Academy: The role of prior experience in adult learners' acquisition of postgraduate literacies in a postapartheid South African university Author: Cooper, L. Date: 20100830 Reference: Cooper, L. 2010. Activists within the Academy: The role of prior experience in adult learners' acquisition of postgraduate literacies in a postapartheid South African university. Adult Education Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 1, pp. 40-56 Description: A case study from the University of Cape Town of some adult students who were given Recognition of Prior Learning access to a Masters programme in Disability Studies that found that the lecturers' understanding of the learners'"habitus"(their [educational] dispositions and patterns of learning) enabled students' prior experiential knowledge to be tapped as a resource, though they had difficulty in academic writing. Keywords: universities, RPL

A response to the (draft) Education for All Country Report 2010 Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20101112 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2010. A response to the Education for All Country Report 2010 - adult literacy and continuing education: South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adulr Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Raises a number of questions about literacy and adult education developmens that should have been adressed but were not and suggests what answers could have been given Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, KRG, statistics

Amendments to the General Education and Training Certificate (GETC) - Adult education and Training (ABET): a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20101126 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2010. Amendments to the General Education and Training Certificate (GETC) - Adult education and Training (ABET): a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Government Gazette, Volume 545. Number 33805, 26 November 2010 Description: Adds some subjects ("learning areas") to a previous notice - Notice No. 1173, published in a Government Gazette No. 32793 of 11 December 2009 Keywords: adult basic education, curriculum

The role of Adult Education in reducing poverty Author: Preece, J. Date: 20101208 Reference: Preece, J. 2010. The role of Adult Education in reducing poverty. Brussels: The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) Description: Examines the links between adult education and poverty reduction and provides a set of good practice examples as ell as general recommendations Keywords: adult education, development, literacy, skills

Education for All Country Report: South Africa 2010 Author: Department of Basic Education Date: 20110125 Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2011. Education for All Country Report: South Africa 2010. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education Description: Has reports on the learning needs of young people and adults, the adult literacy rate, adult basic education and the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, KRG, statistics

Adult Education and Training Act 52 of 2000 as amended Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20110210 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2011. Adult Education and Training Act 52 of 2000 as amended. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Technical changes but many preaging the functional shift to national control Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, statistics

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2010 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20131219 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2010. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Has a section (pp. 29-32) on adult education and training centres Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, statistics

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2010

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign documents: 2010 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2010 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2010. Title. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: This was the third year of operation of the literacy campaign and 609,199 learners were enrolled in 2010. The campaign continued using a number of checks aimed at ensuring that all registered learners are the specific individuals concerned. Another verification process was undertaken in March 2010 on the retuned LAPS of the 2010 cohort. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa, KRG 2010 Draft KRG Training manual 2010 KRG Learner numbers (xls file) 201001 KRG Update Report January 2010 20100121 KRG presentation to Department of Social Development 201003 Section 40 report on stipends 20100302 KRG workbooks in warehouse (photos) 20100325 KRG staff at DBE, Pretoria (photos) 20100419 Pages from Department of Basic Education Strategic Plan 2010 pp. 43-45 201005 Draft letter to Mail & Guardian 20100505 Department of Correctional Services, Report to Portfolio Committee 20101027 KRG Report on non payments

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2010/2011

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2010/2011 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2010/2011 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2010. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). The third checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 31 March to 3 April 2011 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). The workshop continued on 4 and 5 April but dealing with internal Kha Ri Gude matters. In addition some site visits were made to classes in the field. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG 20100526 Umalusi letter to Minister of Basic Education re KRG quality assurance 20101016 Proposal to SAQAfor KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft 20101119 Site visit KZN Keats Drift (photos) 20101127 Site visit KZN Seven Oaks Bhamshela (photos) 20101128 Site visit KZN Ulundi (photos) 20101222 Proposal to SAQA for KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft 2 20110125 Plan for period January to May 2011 with annotations from Aitchison 20101128 Site visit KZN Ulundi (photos) 20110128 Proposal to SAQA for KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft 3 20101129 Site visit KZN Ozwathini (photos) 20101130 Site visit KZN Verulam and Canelands (photos) 20101201 Site visit KZN Tugela Ferry Embangweni (photos) 20101205 Site visit KZN Umkomaas (photos) 20110301 DBE DG letter to SAQA 20110304 Form estimates 20110309 Some issues for April 2011 20110313 Adler to Stickells re administrative matters 20110320 Data sheet 0 Green 20110320 Data sheet 1 White 20110320 Data sheet 2 Blue 20110320 Data sheet 3 Pink 20110322 Kha ri Gude field visit form for facilitator 20110322 Kha Ri Gude field visits guide 20110324 Training guide 2011 20110326 SAQA presentation for moderators and verifiers for 2010 verification 20110330 KRG verification workshop materials 20110331 Data form b Class sets 20110331 KRG verification workshop Warehouse (photos) 20110331 Tally sheet class nos and comments 20110331 The Pink Form coding 20110331-0405 Workshop programme 20110401 Commitment statement 20110401 KRG verification workshop Moderation (photos) 20110402 Kha Ri Gude workshop presentation 20110402 KRG verification workshop Dinner and Certificate awards (photos) 20110404 KRG learners 2010 data distribution (Gerber) 20110404 Some thoughts for the recommendations of the report (Aitchison) 20110404-05 KRG verification workshop (photos) 20110411 Report on KRG Implementation for vear ending 2010/2011 for Portfolio Committee 20110414 KRG verification data capture 2010_Combined (Blue form) (xls file) 20110414 KRG verification data capture 2010_Combined (White form) (xls file) 20110416 Pink Form results for 2010 verification 20110510 Learner numbers and demographics 20110526 SAQA report KRG 2010 final 20110527 Aitchison to Adler and French re changes to draft report 20110608 Briefing on KRG site visits for SAQA Board Meeting (Adler) 20110611 SAQA-KRG co-ordination meeting minutes

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2011

Adult education, globalisation and inequality in South Africa. Searching for new analytical frameworks Author: Groener, Z. Date: 2011 Reference: Groener, Z. 2011. Adult education, globalisation and inequality in South Africa. Searching for new analytical frameworks. Manhattan, Kansas: New Prairie Press Description: Explores sociopolitical analytical framework to analyse institutional barriers to adult learning and inequality in South Africa. Keywords: adult education, ideology, globalization, development, history

Extracted from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 report for South Africa Author: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Date: 2011 Reference: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). 2011. Extracted from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 report for South Africa. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Chestnut Hill, MA Description: Base statistics from the report of 2011 Keywords: statistics, qualifications

What is to be done [about adult education]? Can it be reborn? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20110110 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2011. What is to be done [about adult education]? Can it be reborn? Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education Description: Draft for a newspaper article on ten steps towards a new plan for adult education Keywords: adult education, plan, policy

National Skills development Strategy III Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20110113 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2011. National Skills development Strategy III. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Makes mention of the need to addressthe low level of youth and adult language and numeracy skills to enable additional training Keywords: HRD, skills, training, TVET, policy, plan, adult education

The size and shape of private, post-school education and training provision in South Africa Author: Blom, R. Date: 201106 Reference: Blom, R. 2011. The size and shape of private, post-school education and training provision in South Africa. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development Description: Provides little information on private adult education provision and notes that there was little data and no current national register for private AET centres although it is known that there is much Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) in the economic (SETA) sectors Keywords: adult education, TVET, higher education. adult basic education, statistics, research

On the right and left of the centre: ABET and ECE postgraduate educational research in South Africa, 1995–2004 Author: Rule, P. Date: 20110228 Reference: Rule, P. 2011. On the right and left of the centre: ABET and ECE postgraduate educational research in South Africa, 1995–2004. South African Journal of Higher Education, pp. 322-340 Description: Laments the paucity of research on Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) and Early Childhood Education (ECE) in South Africa and explains it as the effect of the marginality of these areas in this study based largely upon 3515 research theses on education from 19 universities Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, ECD, universities, research, history, ideology, statistics

"We Must Believe in Ourselves": Attitudes and Experiences of Adult Learners With Disabilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Authors: Rule, P. and Modipa, T.R. Date: 20110228 Reference: Rule, P. and Modipa, T.R. 2011. "We Must Believe in Ourselves": Attitudes and Experiences of Adult Learners With Disabilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Adult Education Quarterly, pp. 1-21 Description: This article investigates the attitudes and experiences of adults with disabilities regarding education. It draws on an interactional model of disability and an embodied understanding of cognition as theoretical frames. The study attempted to adopt an emancipatory action research approach that involved persons with disabilities in conceptualizing and conducting the research. It found that adults with disabilities had generally negative experiences of education as children but a strong desire to learn as adults. Involvement in collective learning and action has the potential to transform the body images and self-efficacy of adults with disabilities. The research findings suggest a perspective on adults with disabilities as potentially powerful and resourceful learners and citizens. Keywords: adult education, disability, research

UNISA ABET Institute Higher Certificate and Diploma enrolments 2009 to 2011 Author: ABET Institute, University of South Africa Date: 20110309 Reference: ABET Institute, University of South Africa. 2011. UNISA ABET Institute Higher Certificate and Diploma enrolments 2009 to 2011. Pretoria: University of South Africa Description: Num,ber of enrolments by province and year Keywords: adult basic education, qualifications, universities, statistics

From ashes to assets Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20110421 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2011. From ashes to assets. Mail & Guardian, 21 April 2011 Description: A clear ten point plan for revitalizing adult education in South Africa Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, universities, governance, KRG, literacy, materials, NQF, skills, qualifications

Nzimande - Budget speech 2011 Author: Nzimande, B.E. Date: 20110526 Reference: Nzimande, B.E. 2011. Budget Vote speech by Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande National Assembly, 26th May 2011. Pretoria: Ministery of Higher Education and Training Description: Has a very small section on Adult Education and Training (pp. 9-10) and refers to the development of the National Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) Keywords: policy, community education, qualifications, certification

Readings of rights Author: Dean, P. Date: 20110819 Reference: Dean, P. 2011. Readings of rights. Mail & Guardian, 19 August 2011 Description: An advocacy piece for adult literacy provision Keywords: literacy, NGOs, skills

Human Resource Development South Africa (HRDSA) 2010 – 2030 Author: Human Resource Development Council of South Africa Date: 2011 Reference: Human Resource Development Council of South Africa. 2011. Human Resource Development South Africa (HRDSA) 2010 – 2030. Pretoria: Human Resource Development Council of South Africa, Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Makes a few references to adult education Keywords: HRD, development, policy, plan

Open to the flaw: Comparing the different skills required for reading English and isiZulu Author: Land, S. Date: 20110825 Reference: Land, S. 2011. Open to the flaw: Comparing the different skills required for reading English and isiZulu. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 19 August 2011 Description: Explores the question of, and a number of hypotheses related to, whether the processes of reading, and the patterns in reading, are similar across languages (in this study, English and Zulu) and their orthographies Keywords: literacy, language, reading, research,

Militant modesty: Communication and impact in the mission of the NQF Authors: French, E. and King, M. Date: 201109 Reference: French, E. and King, M. 2011. Militant modesty: Communication and impact in the mission of the NQF. Y: Z Description: A personal reflection on a number of ILO symposiums held in Pretoria on the National Qualifications Framework that inter alia deals with communication with and real engagement with stakeholders on the meaning of the NQF and posits an enabling and emancipatory take on the NQF, but note the mismatch between vocational and technical qualifications and their related training offerings, the needs of employers in terms of skills gaps, and the needs of learners in terms of job opportunities. Keywords: NQF, standards, qualifications, ideology, policy, history, research

Request for quotation: the development of a concept document on adult education and training Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20110914 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2011. Request for quotation: the development of a concept document on adult education and training. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The document is to conceptualize adult education and training within a post school system, examine the current way in which qualification and programmes for adults are established by the Quality Councils and the articulation and links with institutional and workplace learning Keywords: policy, adult education, qualifications, skills, NQF

All the cattle in the kraal. An overview of Umalusi's research 2003-2011 Author: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training Date: 201111 Reference: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training. 2011. All the cattle in the kraal. An overview of Umalusi's research 2003-2011. Pretoria: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training, pp. 41-43 Description: The small section (from a much larger report) relating to adult and adult basic education that describes only two studies, one on the "fundamental" components of general and further education qualifications (done in 2007) and one on the intended and examined curricula of the Gneral and Education and Training Certificate for Adults (done in 2008) Keywords: NQF, qualifications, curriculum, research, adult education, adult basic education

Adult education and training within the context of the South African NQF Authors: Isaacs, S. and Keevy, J. Date: 20111107 Reference: Isaacs, S. and Keevy, J. 2011. Adult education and training within the context of the South African NQF. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: Explains the objectives and work of the South African NQF and relates it to adult education, quotes the 2009 CONFINTEA VI Report on that state and development of adult education in Sub-Saharan Africa and what it says abouts NQFs with approval, and outlines the role of SAQA and adult education and training (including its work with the KRG literacy campaign) Keywords: adult education, literacy, adult basic education, lifelong learning, RPL, NQF, qualifications, certification, KRG

National qualifications frameworks developed in Anglo-Saxon and French traditions. Considerations for sustainable development in Africa Authors: Keevy, J, Charraud, A-M., and Allgoo, K. Date: 20111127-1202 Reference: Keevy, J, Charraud, A-M., and Allgoo, K. 2011. National qualifications frameworks developed in Anglo-Saxon and French traditions. Considerations for sustainable development in Africa. [Paper delivered at the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Triennale on Education and Training in Africa, held at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 27-December 2, 2011] Description: A comparative study of National Qualifications Frameworks in six African countries, three Francophone, three Anglophone that includes some recommendations including that the borrowing of foreign NQF models to be implemented in education systems in Africa already skewed by colonisation and/or other more recent influences should be replaced by an emphasis on learning from the mistakes and successes made in the English and French contexts - the implementation of NQFs based on African values and functions within societies would permit more appropriate learning processes for Africa. Keywords: NQF, qualifications

Education is a public and social good for everyone Author: Lolwana, P. Date: 20111205 Reference: Lolwana, P. 2011. Education is a public and social good for everyone. Braamfontein: Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand Description: Presentation to the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand on the history of adult education in South Africa, Africa and the North and looks at priorities for South Africa Keywords: adult education, ideology, development, history, NGOs, funding

Statistics on post-school education and training in South Africa: 2011 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 2013 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Statistics on post-school education and training in South Africa: 2011. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Some material on adult education provision on pages 26 to 29 Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, adult further education, statistics

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2011

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2011 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2011 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2011. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude, Department of Basic Education Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa, KRG 2011 KRG learner data 20110201 Draft KRG response to questions from ZADifference 20110525-26 Distribution of workbooks (photos) 20110706 KRG volunteer registrations data 20110707 Hanemann Report on UIL Mission 30 March to 5 April 2011 re KRG 20110713 Class (photos) 20110725 KRG Approval of Stipends 20110812 Pretorius C "We should affirm one another", Mail and Guardian 20110816 KRG Submission to DoE DG 82011b 20110923 National Council of Provinces Question and answer re KRG 20111003 Presentation - KRG Literacy campiagn South Africa (Aitchison) 20111231 KRG budget vs Expenditure SAB&T summary

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2011/2012

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2011/2012 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2011/2012 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). The fourth checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 29 March to 1 April 2012 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). In addition data from some site visits to classes conducted throughout South Africa was compared to the LAP results. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG 2011 Collection of LAPs 2009-2010 20110224 Letter from Adler to Sekgobela re sites sample 20110731 KRG site visit guide (Draft) 20110803 KRG Results from the Home Affairs tests of ID numbers (2011) 20110817 Rationale for verification (Aitchison) 20110910 Guide for site visits (draft) 20110925 Planning of site visits 20111003 Planning of site visits 20111009 KRG site visits virement proposal (draft) 20111010 KRG visitor action checklist 20111011 Site visit sampling and hub procedures 20111018 KRG Visits Task form a 20111018 KRG Visits Task form b 20111021 French Memorandum to SAQA on site visits 20111025 KRG Site visit KGQA1 Senior Visitor TOR 20111025 KRG Site visit KGQA2 Visitor TOR 20111025 KRG site visit KGQA3 Folder Cover and Checklist 20111025 KRG Site visit Visit Record Folder 20111025 KRG Site Visitors Packages 20111027 Planning the KwaZulu-Natal visits 20111107 TOR for contractor doing site visits in KwaZulu-Natal 20111107 Contract and TOR for contractor doing site visits in Eastern Cape 20111107 Contract and TOR for contractor doing site visits in Gauteng, North West and Northern Cape 20111107 Contract and TOR for site visits between SAQA and Hutani Communication Enterprise 20111107 Contract and TORfor site visits with Tembaletu Trust (KZN) 20111119 Aitchison to Elijah Sekgobela re problem sites 20111212 French to Paul Jooste (draft) 20120212 Verification description - Phase February to May 2012 draft update 20120214 KRG Site visit analysis planning 20120218 SAQA KRG Verification analysis process 2 20120220 Time table for Workshop March/April (Draft) 20120309 TOR for preparation of site visit records for moderation event 20120322 KRG workshop process update as on Thursday 22 March 20120323 Commitment statement 20120323 Site Visit Correlation Process 2011 20120323 Site visits Description phase Feb 2012 - May 2012 draft update (Adler) 20120327 KRG LAPs in warehouse (photos) 20120329 KRG verification workshop timetable 20120330 Data sheet 2011 site visit correlation 20120330 Training Guide for 2011 verification 20120330 Presentation Guide for moderators and verifiers for 2011 verification 20120330 Melissa King KRG presentation 1 on ABET standards 20120330 Melissa King KRG presentation 2 on quality assurance 20120330 Melissa King Notes for presentation 20120331 KRG Introductory Site Visit presentation 20120331 KRG Site Visit presentation (Baloyi) 20120401 KRG verification workshop (dinner and awards) (photos) 20110401 SAQA KRG verification speech for DG 20120401 Sample SAQA KRG Verification workshop award certificate 20120511 KRG Literacy Campaign South Africa - verification (Aitchison) 20120512 Melissa King Report to SAQA Board on KRG Quality and Standards 20120521 SAQA KRG Report 2011 final 20120622 Aitchison Umalusi Conference KRG verification

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team - 2011

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team documents - 2011 Author: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2011 Reference: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team. 2011. Title. Pretoria: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team, Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The Community Education and Training Centres Task Team was set up by Minister Nzimande in April 2011 to feed into a Green paper process preparatory to the function shift where TVET and Adult Education would move from privincial to national control (to be finalised at the end of March 2015). The Task Team conducted research on local and global experiences of adult and community education and on institutions and programmes aimed at youth and adults and prepared both national and international literature reviews and commissioned a survey of community learning and education in three communities in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Gauteng. Relevant South African policy documents, legislation and research was also examined. It submitted its report on 25 may 2012. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan 20110523 CETCTT Briefing meeting of 23 June invitation 20110704 CETCTT Minutes 20110721 CETCTT TOR for appointment of community research consultant 20110721 CETCTT TOR for appointment of international literature review consultant 20110721 CETCTT TOR for appointment of South African literature review consultant 20110801 CETCTT Minutes 20110805 CETCTT Agenda 20110905 CETCTT Minutes 20111003 CETCTT Agenda 20111003 CETCTT Minutes 20111003 CETCTT Meeting (photos) 20111004 CETCTT Draft Submission on Green paper 20111024 CETCTT Agenda 20111107 CETCTT Agenda 20111107 CETCTT Minutes 20111111 CETCTT Appointment letter to Aitchison re literature review 20111111 CETCTT Presentation by Auditor General of AET report 20111205 CETCTT HEDCOM briefing session programme

Community Colleges - 2011

Community College documents - 2011 Author: As ascribed Date: 2011 Reference: As ascribed. 2012. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, statistics 2011 Gauteng Department of Education - Adult Education and Training book list 2011 KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Training Report 2011 2011 Post-School Education and Training statistics - Adult Education and Training centres 2011 Wolhuter C C Community Colleges in South Africa? Assessment of potential from comparative international perspectives

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2012

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2012

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2012 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2012 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2012. Title. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 2012 Adler reference for Bongani Rainmakers 2012 KRG 2007/8 to 2014/5 Financial Year 2012 KRG bridges literacy gap 2012 LAP English 2012 201202 KRG Circular C1 February 2012 20120229 KRG Section 40 report 201203 Budget vs Expenditure SABT Summary 201203 KRG Estimated stipends for 2011 201203 KRG Final Virement 201203 NLRD Report on KRG submission for 2010 [submitted Nov 2011] 201204 Budget vs Expenditure SAB&T Summary 201204 KRG Circular C2 April 201 2 20120327 Minister’s speech 27 March at verification workshop 20120328 Kha Ri Gude 4th quarter report final 20120328 Ramarumo Welcome address to verification workshop 20120330 Presentation on KRG and Quality Assurance 20120330 Presentation on Alignment of ABET Unit Standards SA KRG 20120331 KRG Section 40 Report 20120417 KRG Presentation Draft 2 20120418 KRG Curriculum Management Meeting Memo 20120418 KRG Curriculum Management Meeting No 1 of 2012 20120429 MTEF narrative 201213 to 201415b 20120429 Report 2010-11 for Portfolio Committee 20120803 NLRD data Kha Ri Gude - compare post-2011 load with pre-2011 load 20120803 NLRD Kha Ri Gude analysis - 20120803 20120819 KRG Coordinators' database for 2012 (xls file) 20121023 KRG report to DBE branch 20121106 Presentation on KRG to UNESCO Cape Verde (Aitchison) 20121119 Request for lnformation (Number 1) from Auditor General 20121119 Aitchison draft of a response to Auditor General request 20121128 Presentation from KRG CEO for Minister's meeting with Branch Curriculum 20130513 KRG learner numbers 2012 20140111 KRG Statistics finance and disabled 2008-2012

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2012/2013

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2012/2013 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2012/2013 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012/13. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). The fifth checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 21 March to 24 March 2013 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). In addition data from 300 site visits to classes conducted throughout South Africa was compared to the LAP results. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG 20120908-1021 Correspondence between Ramarumo and April 201303 Warehouse visit (photos) 201303 Moderator Certificate Template 2013 20130306 SAQA Verification workshop for 2012 cohort timetable 20130310 Site Visit and LAPs verification Correlation Process 2012 20130310 Tally sheet class numbers with comment form 20130310 Training guide for 2012 cohort verification 20130321 Ramarumo Welcome address to verification workshop 20130321 Presentation on Guide for moderators and verifiers 2013 general 20130321 Commitment statement 2013 20130322 Verification workshop (photos) 20130323 New blue form 20130324 Moderating Form 4 Part D instructions 20130324 Site visit LAP comparison session feedback 20130324 SAQA KRG verification workshop closing speech 20130324 Verification dinner and awards (photos) 20130327 KRG class size analysis 20130513 Verification moderator comments summary for deaf 20130513 Verification moderator comments summary for general 20130610 SAQA Draft management letter re KRG 2012 verification 20130612 SAQA KRG report 2012 final Site visits 20120716 Draft agenda for SAQA KRG site visit group meeting 20120911 KRG Supervisors 2012 Geographical Locations (xlsx file) 20120923 Site Visitor folder 2012 20121005 English Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121005 KRG Learner task Sheet missing words gap fill 20121012 Afrikaans Learner Task Sheet 2012 20161012 Isindebele Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121012 Sepedi Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121012 Sesotho Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121012 Setstwana Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121013 Siswati Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121014 Tshivenda Learner Task Sheet 2012 20161012 IsiXhosa Learner Task Sheet 2012 20121012 Xitsonga Learner Task Sheet 2012 20161012 IsiZulu Learner Task Sheet 2012 201211 Tembaletu site visits (Purity) (photos) 20121002-1114 Tembaletu site visits (Thokozani) (photos) 20121102-15 Tembaletu site visits (Dumisani) (photos) 20121104-14 Temba|etu site visits (Bonginkosi) (photos) 20121105 Tembaletu site visits (Richard) (photos) 20121105-08 Tembaletu site visits (Maxwell) (photos) 20121107 Tembaletu site visits (Simphiwe) (photos) 20130228 KRG Visit analysis Final updated (xls file) 20130310 Site Visit and LAPs verification Correlation Process 2012 20130314 SAQA KRG Site visitors comments analysis 20130322 SAQA KRG 2012 Site visit data capture feedback 20130324 Site visit LAP comparison session feedback

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team - 2012

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team documents - 2012 Author: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2012 Reference: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team. 2012. Title. Pretoria: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team, Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team was set up by Minister Nzimande in April 2011 to feed into a Green paper process preparatory to the function shift where TVET and Adult Education would move from privincial to national conrol (to be finalised at the end of March 2015). The Task Team conducted research on local and global experiences of adult and community education and on institutions and programmes aimed at youth and adults and prepared both national and international literature reviews and commissioned a survey of community learning and education in three communities in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Gauteng. Relevant South African policy documents, legislation and research was also examined. It submitted its report on 25 May 2012. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan 20120112 CETCTT Survey Operational Plan Revised 20120206 CETCTTAgenda 20120206 CETCTT Minutes 20120215 Presentation From PALCs to Community Colleges (Aitchison) 20120220 CETCTT Agenda 20120220 CETCTT Minutes 20120227 Potgieter to CETCTTon implications of FETC Amendments Bill 20120301 CETCTT Letter from Aitchison to Potgieter on Boshoff proposals 20120305 CETCTT Agenda 20120305 CETCTT Cosser Implications of the Green Paper for CETC establishment 20120326 CETCTT South African Literature Review executive summary 201204 CETCTT Community Survey Final Report 2012 20120412 CETCTT Draft Report v.4 12 April 2012 20120420 Presentation on CETCTT Report (Potgieter) 20220420 CETCTT Stakeholders meeting (photos) 20120524 CETCTT Report Final 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE A - International Literature Review 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE B - SA Literature Review 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE C - Community Consultation 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE D - Stakeholder Meeting attendance 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE E - NYDA2 20120528 CETCTT report - ANNEXURE F - Wolf Report Summary 20120528 CETCTT report- ANNEXURE G - Rule PALCs to CETCs 20120528 CETCTT report -ANNEXURE H - SAIDE 20120528 CETCTT report- ANNEXURE I - UMALUSI 20120719 Presentation on CETCTT Report to DHET branch 20120725 Presentation on CETCTT Report (Aitchison) 20120813 CETCTT Action Plan (final phase) 20120904 CETCTT Final Report Summary 20120906 CETCTT Submission on Amendment of FET Colleges Act 201010 CETCTT Final report (DHET version) 20121114 New Submission to Minister of Higher Education and Training (Draft) (Aitchison) 20130404 Call for comments of CETCTT Final Report of Ocrtober 2012 Government Gazette

Presentation by Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres to Branch Author: Community Education and Training Task Team Date: 20120719 Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Presentation by Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres to Branch. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Outlines the terms of reference of the Task Team, the research methods it used, its contextual analysis, assumptions, the target group for community education, a model for community learning centres and differentiated colleges, some structuring options, and the steps leading to a White Paper Keywords: community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, CLCs

Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres Author: Community Education and Training Task Team Date: 201210 Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The report provides recommendations on an institutional model of communiy ducation and training centres based on local research and an international literature survey. It sumarises youth and adult target groups and needs and arugues for a a network of post-school programmes and institutions that are diverse, yet linked, and should have an integrated core curriculum that include communications and numeracy, enabling youth and adults to function in changing communities, a changing world and labour markets, combining formal learning opportunities, vocational and occupational electives, and non-formal and popular education programmes. It proposes a differentiated colleges sector (which would include community colleges) and community learning centres and two institutes - one for Vocational and Continuing Education and one for Adult, Youth Community and Popular Education. It envisages a continuation of the Kha Ri Gude programme to provide various community and social education and soft skills programmes. Keywords: community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, KRG, CLCs, research

Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Summary Author: Community Education and Training Task Team Date: 20120904 Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Summary. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: A very clear summary/condensation of the report Keywords:community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, KRG, CLCs, research

FET Amendment Bill 2012. Submission from the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres Author: Community Education and Training Task Team Date: 20120906 Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. FET Amendment Bill 2012. Submission from the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Notes the recommendations of the Task Team in its Report about necessary legislation, states that legislation would be premature without substantial prior planing of a community education system, that there must be distinction made between a community college and a community learning centre, that the document's use of the term continuing education is incorrect and confusing, and appeals for the restoration of aduklt education units at universities Keywords: community education, community colleges, continuing education, further education, adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, universities

Community Colleges - 2012

Community College documents - 2012 Author: As ascribed Date: 2012 Reference: As ascribed. 2012. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, Gauteng, statistics 2012 DHET AET statisticss 2012 2014 DHET Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa 2012 201205 Rule From PALCs to CETCs An acronymic analysis Umalusi Conference 20120206 FETCA amendment Bill 20120326 NQF Act NASCA qualification and call for comments 20120423 Gauteng Dept of Education circular_no_02_of_2012 20120718 CETTurnaround Strategy 20121017 Presentation The future of state public youth and adult education (Aitchison)

OSISA/DVV International regional YALE Studies

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Angola Author: Figueira, S. and Inácio, E. Date: 2012 Reference: Figueira, S. and Inácio, E. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Angola. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords:YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Lesotho Author: Setoi, S.M. Date: 2012 Reference: Setoi, S.M. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Lesotho. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords:YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Mozambique Author: Luis, R. Date: 2012 Reference: Luis, R. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Mozambique. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Namibia Author: Shaleyfu, K. Date: 2012 Reference: Shaleyfu, K. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Namibia. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Swaziland Author: Jele, D. Date: 2012 Reference: Jele, D. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Swaziland. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Southern Africa. Overview of a five nation study Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2012 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Southern Africa. Overview of a five nation study. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International Description: This is the overview summary of the research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them. Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Presentation on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20121105 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Presentation on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa. [Presentation to Regional expert meeting for the follow-up of Confintea VI in Africa: increasing the participation of youth and adults in learning and education, held in Praia, Cap Verde, 5-8 November 2012] Description: A overview summary of the research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International) and its recommendations. Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Excluded from education and work: perceptions of at risk youth Authors: Booyens, M. and Crause, E. Date: 2012 Reference: Booyens, M. and Crause, E. 2012. Excluded from education and work: perceptions of at risk youth. Social Work/Maatsjkaplike Werk, Volume 48 Number 3, pp. 255-274 Description: A detailed examination of the lives of at risk young people living in a rural setting that looks in particular at the transition from school education to education for life and for work, and the transition to productive work, records what expectations youth have of state interventions, and provides general pointers for the consideration of social service professionals in their work with at risk youth in rural areas Keywords: youth, YALE, policy

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training 2012 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 2012 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2012. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training 2012. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Statistics on Post-School Education and Training Keywords: statistics, adult education, PALCs, FET, Higher Education, universities

Key readings: the South African NQF 1995 -2011 Author: Various Date: 201202 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012. Key readings: the South African NQF 1995 -2011. SAQA Bulletin, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2012 Description: A key collection of articles on the South African National Qualifications Framework and its history of development: Human Sciences Research Council  Ways of seeing the National Qualifications Framework: an introduction Ministerial Committee for Development Work on the NQF   Discussion document: Lifelong learning through a National Qualifications Framework. Report of the Ministerial Committee for Development Work on the NQF Samuel BA lsaacs  Making the NQF road by walking reflectively, accountably and boldly Samuel BA lsaacs and Mokubung Nkomo  South Africa's National Qualifications Framework: reflections in the Seventh Year of the SAQA Jonathan D. Jansen  Do good ideas matter? David Raffe  National Qualifications Frameworks as integrated qualifications frameworks Shirley Walters  "Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect": Building communities of trust in South Africa Tom Schuller  Recognising learning and its outcomes Samuel BA lsaacs  Response to Dr Jim Gallacher’s paper, "National qualifications frameworks: instruments of change or agents of change?" Ben Parker and Ken Harley  The NQF as a socially inclusive and cohesive system: communities of practice and trust James Keevy and Joe Samuels  A critical reflection on current qualifications frameworks and possible future directions in Africa Shirley Walters and Samuel BA lsaacs  National Qualifications Frameworks: Insights from South Africa Samuel BA lsaacs  Lessons from the South African National Qualifications Framework Heidi Bolton and James Keevy How are we doing in relation to NQF objectives? Measuring the impact of the South African NQF Trevor Coombe  End note Keywords: NQF, qualifications, history, ideology

Green paper for post-school education and training Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20120104 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2012. Green paper for post-school education and training. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The green paper has a small section on Community Education and Training Centres which it proposes as a replacement for the Public Adult Learning Centres. It noted the inadequacy of provision for people who had failed to complete their schooling. A task team was looking at a new institutional set up. Keywords: adult education, NQF, skills, PALCs, CLCs, policy, plan

Blade's paper fails to make the cut Authors: Baatjes, B. and Hamilton, S. Date: 20120120 Reference: Authors: 2012. Blade's paper fails to make the cut. Mail & Guardian, 20 January 2012 Description: The authors award a poor pass to the Green paper that is excellent in identifying problems and producing problems but poor in implementing them. They also argue that yet another policy is not needed but rather a good plan and they make several suggestions about what could be in it. Keywords: policy, plan, globalization

Ministerial Task Team Report: Developing a Growth Strategy for the Book Sector. Draft 1 Author: Ministerial Task Team on book publishing Date: 20120124 Reference: Ministerial Task Team on book publishing. 2012. Ministerial Task Team Report: Developing a Growth Strategy for the Book Sector. Draft 1. Pretoria: Ministerial Task Team on book publishing, Department of Arts and Culture Description: Notes the strategic importance to a country of having a viable, vigorous, and sustainable book sector, which it describes and examines the factors that could create long-term growth and sustainability, particularly in relation to educational publishing, and recommends some institutional arrangements to implements the Task Teams recommendations Keywords: reading, finance, policy, IT

Notes on the Wolf report Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20120124 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Notes on the Wolf report. [Paper prepared for the Community Education and Training Centres Task team (and forms one of the annexures to their report] Description: A quick summary of the United Kingdom’s Review of Vocational Education (The Wolf Report) – 2011 and that government's response Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, literacy, finance

The Wolf is at the door and other stories Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20120216 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. The Wolf is at the door and other stories. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: A presentation on the implications for universities and adult education of the Green paper for Post-School Education and Training Keywords: adult education, NQF, skills, curriculum

Adults need customised education Author: Miller, A. Date: 20120302 Reference: Miller, A. 2012. Adults need customised education, Mail and Guardian, 2 March 2012 Description: A severe critique of the Green paper proposals for adult education as repeating previous policies yet only envisaging more name changes and bureaucracy ad failures to follow through Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, literacy, finance

The Green Paper on Post-School Education and Training: What’s in it for us? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20120411 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. The Green Paper on Post-School Education and Training: What’s in it for us? Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Discussion on the Green paper in which he notes that much of the Green Paper is based on out-dated and unreliable data and that it has not taken into account the crucial issue of the poor quality of Department of Basic Education schooling output – which has a huge imoact on post-school education and training Keywords: policy, plan

Integrated response to the three sub-frameworks, gazetted for comment December 2012, and the green paper on post school education and training, launched January 2012 Author: Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training) Date: 20120425 Reference: Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training). 2012. Integrated response to the three sub-frameworks, gazetted for comment December 2012, and the green paper on post school education and training, launched January 2012. Pretoria: Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training) Description: A nuanced set of detailed comments and explications on the three NQF frameworks and on the Green paper that include much attention to adult education and adult basic education Keywords: NQF, qualifications, FET, TVET, adult basic education, adukt educations, skills

The development of national standards for adult educators in Namibia Authors: Ellis, J. and Richardson, B.H. Date: 20120429 Reference: Ellis, J. and Richardson, B.H. 2012.The development of national standards for adult educators in Namibia. International Review of Education, Volume 58, 2012, pp. 375-385 Description: The process of developing national competency standards for adult educators, finalised in 2011, found, via 30 focus groups, that the work of an adult educator is more complex and demanding than had previously been appreciated and required competencies that were categorised as (1) Knowledge as an adult educator, (2) Practice as an adult educator, (3) Relationships as an adult educator and (4) Ethics and professionalism as an adult educator. Keywords: adult education, educators, practitioners, competency, standards, research, Namibia

What is the current state of adult (il)illiteracy in South Africa? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20120501 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. What is the current state of adult (il)illiteracy in South Africa? Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education Description: Summary of literacy statistics and a critical analysis of their accuracy together with an estimation of the likelihood of illiteracy being significant reduced by 2015 Keywords: literacy, statistics, adult basic education, KRG, research

Is Post-School Education Adult Education and Training? The Shape and Size of Post-School Education Author: Lolwana, P. Date: 20120508 Reference: Lolwana, P. 2012. Is Post-School Education Adult Education and Training? The Shape and Size of Post-School Education. Pretoria: Labour Market Intelligence Partnership Description: This paper starts tracing the different developments and dynamics of the different discourses that have emerged as adult education. It also presents a brief history on the kind of adult education South Africa has, comparing this with the newly emerging high income countries as well as those that are similar to us. The thesis of this paper is that adult education is post-school education and not primary school education. Therefore, when we think post-school education we have to think adult education. Also, there is an argument that runs through the paper about the relationship of adult education and the economy and development. Finally some areas that need further research are identified. Keywords: adult education, policy, plan, development, history

Request for information on databases relating to skills sector research Author: ETDP SETA (Raphotle, M.) Date: 20120619 Reference: ETDP SETA (Raphotle, M.). 2012. Request for information on databases relating to skills sector research. Johannesburg: ETDP SETA Description: Request for both qualitative and quantitative information on ABET including access to relavent databases to enable the SETA to update its Sector Skills Plan Keywords: skills, research, adult basic education, plan

National Development Plan 2023 Our future - make it work. Executive summary Author: National Planning Commission Date: 20120812 Reference: National Planning Commission. 2012. National Development Plan 2023 Our future - make it work. Executive summary. Pretoria: Department of the Presidency Description: Preceded by a bit of poetic puffery the summary gives a succint rendition of the full plans objectives and suggested actions, including for education and training, but there is not a single mention of adult education Keywords: policy, plan, development

National Development Plan 2023 Our future - make it work Author: National Planning Commission Date: 20120824 Reference: National Planning Commission. 2012. National Development Plan 2023 Our future - make it work. Pretoria: Department of the Presidency Description: A detailed plan, including for education and training, but has relatively little on adult education (pp. 322-323), though its criticisms (limited curriculum and lack of appropriate formal qualifications, small scale with around 300 000 participants, lack of a clear institutional identity, high staff turnover due to lack of job security, limited resources, run on a part time basis, not linked to the other parts of the education system, few participants acquire the General Education Certificate) are acute and suggestions are sensible Keywords: policy, plan, development, skills, adult basic education, literacy, KRG

The certificates that Umalusi issues. A guide for verification and placement Author: Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training) Date: 201209 Reference: Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training). 2012.The certificates that Umalusi issues. A guide for verification and placement. Pretoria: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training Description: Description of all the qualifications that Umalusi certifies Keywords: NQF, qualifications

Background paper on multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20120903 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Background paper on multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres. [Background Paper for GRALE II] Description: Examines the definitions, concepts and categories of Community Education or learning Centres and of Community Education and poses questions to be asked of any purported community learning centre before providing a summary of surveys of such centres in South Africa and Botswana (which found very few actual multi-purpose community lerning centres) Keywords: CLCs, community education, non-formal education, Botswana, South Africa, PALCs, NGOs

A coordinating mechanism for the recognition of prior learning in South Africa Author: Keevy, J. Date: 201210 Reference: Keevy, J. 2012. A coordinating mechanism for the recognition of prior learning in South Africa. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: Discusses the possibility of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) acting as an incubating and coordinating mechanism for the national Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for the period 2013 to 2018 (as suggested by a recommendation from the Ministerial Task Team on RPL Keywords: NQF, RPL, qualifications, policy

Framework for Cooperation in the provision of Career Development (Information, Advice and Guidance) Services in South Africa Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20121017 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2012. Framework for Cooperation in the provision of Career Development (Information, Advice and Guidance) Services in South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Description of all the qualifications that Umalusi certifies Keywords: NQF, qualifications

Where are we now with literacy in South Africa? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20121026 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Where are we now with literacy in South Africa?. [Paper delivered at the Jozi Book Fair, 2012 in Johannesburg] Description: An impassioned critique of the adult education failures in the new South Africa buttressed by literacy statistics, an explanation for the decline in radical literacy work, an examination of the lack of a reading culture and the incapacity of universities to teach reading teachers, a quick summary of scientific knowledge of reading instruction and the recommendations arising from it and a final diatribe: ""We have now generations who have been cognitively stunted because of a massive failure in our culture and our educational provision. It is a kind of cognitive genocide of our population." Keywords: literacy, reading, universities, adult education, curriculum, materials, ideology

Planning for skills -- again Author: Mbali, C. Date: 20121215 Reference: Mbali, C. 2012. Planning for skills -- again. Mail & Guardian, 15 December 2011 Description: Responds to the release of the National Planning Commission's "Vision for 2030" document, outlines some of its proposals and notes the weaknesses in the SETA system Keywords: FET, TVET, skills, research

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2013

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2013

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2013 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2013 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2013. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 2013 KRG Bongani rainmaker KRG LAP return statistics 2009 - 2013 2013 KRG Learners and under age learners 2008 - 2013 20130105 Towards some strategic priorities for 2013 20130108 KRG Statistical abstract for 2012 20130206 KRG ECD intervention 20130307 Braille production (photos) 20130620 DBE TOR for KRG evaluation 201309 to 201404 20130715 Draft 1TOR for impact evaluation version 15 July 2013 20130715 Draft 1 TOR for situational analysis version 15 July 2013 20131212 KRG McKay Presentation 20140510 KRG Learners 2013 by language and province

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2013/2014

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2013/2014 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2013/2014 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2013/14. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). The sixth checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 29 March to 1 April 2014 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). In addition data from 100 site visits to classes conducted throughout South Africa was compared to the LAP results. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG 2014 KRG 2013 LAP return statistics (xlsx file) 20140315 Guide for moderators and verifiers 2014 general 20140315 SAQA KRG verification Commitment statement 2014 20140315 SAQA Training guide for 2013 verification 20140324-25 SAQA KRG 2013 Notes on induction of senior verifiers 20140326 SAQA KRG verification Programme for 2013 cohort 20140327 SAQA KRG Options for assessor qualifications 20140406 SAQA KRG preliminary memo 20140818 SAQA KRG 2013 Additional QA innovations 20140820 SAQA KRG verification of 2013 cohort assessment dataset summary 20140825 SAQA Report on KRG 2013 final 20141205 Samuels re KRG quality assurance to Padayachee Site visits 2013 SAQA KRG Operational Site visit plan April 2013 to March 2014 with New Senior Verifiers 2013 SAQA KRG Operational Site visit plan April 2013 to March 2014 without New Senior Verifiers 20131106 SAQA KRG Site Visitor folder 2013 20140113-23 SAQA KRG Site visits (photos)

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team - 2013

Community Education and Training Centres Task Team documents - 2013 Author: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2013 Reference: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team. 2012. Title. Pretoria: Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team, Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The Community Education and Traing Centres Task Team was set up by Minister Nzimande in April 2011 to feed into a Green paper process preparatory to the function shift where TVET and Adult Education would move from privincial to national conrol (to be finalised at the end of March 2015). The Task Team conducted research on local and global experiences of adult and community education and on institutions and programmes aimed at youth and adults and prepared both national and international literature reviews and commissioned a survey of community learning and education in three communities in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Gauteng. Relevant South African policy documents, legislation and research was also examined. It submitted its report on 25 May 2012. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan 20130125 CETCTT Presentation 201304 Michael Gardiner Making best use of local experiencefor CLCs 20130404 CETCTT Report and call for comments GG 20130407 Sunday Times article on DHET Community Education report 20130424 CETCTT Presentation at UKZN 20130429 CETCTT UKZN (Centre for Adult Education) Response to the Report (Preece) 20130430 CETCTT Higher Education South Africa Response to Report 20130502 Michael Gardiner to DHET Comments on report 20130512 CETCTT UNISA Response to the Report

Community Colleges - 2013

Community College documents - 2013 Author: As ascribed Date: 2013 Reference: As ascribed. 2013. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 2013 ABET GETC exams number who wrote 29130108 Umalusi Press statement ABETlevel 4 is not a matric final 20130319 Further Education and Training Colleges Amendment Act 20130515 DHET Regulations on the assessment process and procedures for AET NQF level 1 20130801 Final Gauteng Department of Education AETAudit Report prepared for GDE by Saide SAIDE Adult Learning Centre Study maps for Gauteng 20121211 SAIDE SALS Education districts: ALCs and transport routes 20121211 SAIDE SALS Municipalities: ALCs and transport routes 20131209 SAIDE SALS Literacy levels by ward 20131209 SAIDE SALS Highest education qualification by ward 20131209 SAIDE SALS Poverty levels by minicipality 20131209 SAIDE SALS Poverty levels by ward

New Readers Publishers - 2013

New Readers Publishers was a non-profit publishing project originally started in 1991 and housed by the Centre for Adult Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, until 2014 when the University completed its destruction of the Centre for Adult Education and all its adult education initiatives. New Readers Publishers developed and supported adult literacy and basic English Second Language skills by producing easy to read books in all South African languages for the entertainment and education of adult new readers. It is now an independent initiative which has made digital versions of all of the New Readers Publishers books available online. The use of these e-versions is free for non-commercial purposes via a Creative Commons Licence (Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) International licence). New Readers Publishers retains the copyright. The books can be downloaded, printed or read online in pdf format. Their new website has constructed as a repository of all the books published by the project in the past together with some other resources. The website is: www.newreaders.co.za 20131127 New readers Project workshop in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg (photos)

Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa Authors: Brandson, N., Hofmeyr, C., and Lam, D. Date: 20130108 Reference: Brandson, N., Hofmeyr, C., and Lam, D. 2013. Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 100. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town Description: Based on a study of the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2 it provides into transitions in and out of school and across grades showing the high levels of grade repetition and how school completion presents a significant hurdle with very few youth successfully completing the Senior Certificate and notes that exit from school does not offer any advantages as most youth find themselves idle once they have left school (with obvious implications about the need for effective adult education provision Keywords: qualifications, adult education, research, statistics

Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training Author: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training Date: 2013 Reference: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training. 2013. Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training. Port Elizabeth: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Description: Profile of a centre that focusses on democracy, citizenship and social justice as central to post school education and training in South Africa Africa Keywords: adult education, community education, community colleges, non-formal education, development, NGOs. universities, research, curriculum, TVET, trade unions

An overview of education policy change in post-apartheid South Africa Authors: Sayed, Y. and Kanjee, A. Date: 2013 Reference: Sayed, Y. and Kanjee, A. 2013. An overview of education policy change in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Sayed, Y., Kanjee, A., and Nkomo, M. (Eds). 2013. The search for quality education in post-apartheid South Africa: interventions to improve learning and teaching. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council Press, pp. 5-38 Description: A useful survey of policy documents and legislation (and a list of all of them) but virtually silent on adult or adult basic education and literacy. Keywords: policy, legislation, adult education, adult basic education, literacy

Worker education in South Africa: lessons and contradictions Authors: Vally, S., Wa Bofolo, M., and Treat, J. Date: 2013 Reference: Vally, S., Wa Bofolo, M., and Treat, J. 2013. Worker education in South Africa: lessons and contradictions. McGill Journal of Education, Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2013, pp. 469-490 Description: Argues that worker education played a crucial role in the development of the trade union movement in South Africa and in the broader struggle for social transformation but argue that international developments, the rise of neoliberalism, and the negotiated compromise between the African National Congress (ANC) and the apartheid state, as well as corporatism resulted in changes to and weakeniungs of worker education, and that "the centre of gravity has shifted to community organizations where various forms of learning and creativity continue Keywords: worker education, history, adult education, ideology, NQF, NGOs

GETC ABET Level 4 not a matric Author: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training (Umalusi) Date: 20130108 Reference: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training. 2013. GETC ABET Level 4 not a matric. Pretoria: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training Description: Press statement seeking to clear up the confusion between ABET level 4 (on NQF level 1, the level of the General Education and Training Certificate (ABET)) and NQF level 4 (the level of the National Senior Certificate (the so-called matric) Keywords: qualifications, NQF, assessment

Kha Ri Gude Literacy campaign presentation to National Interdepartmental meeting on Early Childhood Development Author: Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Date: 20130206 Reference: Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign. 2013. Kha Ri Gude Literacy campaign presentation to National Interdepartmental meeting on Early Childhood Development. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education Description: Makes a proposal that KRG in partnership with the Department of Social Development makes use the the KRG infrastructure and materials and training capacity to support ECD Keywords: literacy, KRG, ECD

Nzimande to university principals re the Development of post-school education and training as a focus area within education Author: Nzimande, B.E. Date: 20130225 Reference: Nzimande, B.E. 2012. Nzimande to university principals re the Development of post-school education and training as a focus area within education. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The letter states that the DHET is currently in the process of finalizing qualification policies for FET college lecturers and adult educators, and it is hoped that these qualifications will be taken up by universities across the system, that it is envisaged that a viable bursary programme will be put in place to support lecturers and educators to enroll for the qualifications, and that existing university centres that have a clear focus on postschool education and training d should be mainstreamed and strengthened and where they do not exist they shoulds be introduced. Keywords: adult education, FET, universities, qualifications, practitioners

Further Education and Training Amendment Act of 2013 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20130319 Reference: Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Further Education and Training Amendment Act of 2013. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Legislation to amend the Act to enable the set up of so-called Community Colleges and repeal the Adult Education and Training Act of 2000 and to set up a South African Institute for Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (which never happened!) Keywords: community colleges, TVET, adult education, adult basic education, PALCs, legislation, FET, TVET

Adult Learning Forum News Volume 1 Issue 1 Author: Adult learning Forum Date: 201304 Reference: Adult learning Network. 2013. ALF News Volume 1 Issue 1. Cape Town: Adult learning Network, Western Cape Description: Newsletter of the non-profit organization based in the Western Cape that describes the work of the organization as : "non-formal learning, strongly supporting and advocating the REFLECT approach, social justice, and Lifelong Learning and poverty alleviation. We partner and network with a number of organisations, in both civil society and government. We have been involved in planning and running Adult Learners’ Week events for a number of years. We also run plenary meetings and workshops for educators and adult learners on topics of relevance to them, as well as educator forums and adult and youth conferences." Keywords: adult education, community education, non-formal education, NGOs, ideology

Cabinet agrees on plan to catch school dropouts Author: Govender, P. Date: 20130407 Reference: Govender, P. 2013. Cabinet agrees on plan to catch school dropouts. Sunday Times 7 April 2013 Description: Report on Cabinet approval of the ministerial task team report (of 2012, but Gazetted on 5 April 2023) on community education and training centres and which lists some of its recommendations and notes its potential costs Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, adult further education, qualifications, community learning centres (CLCs), community colleges, policy, plan, youth, finance

Regulations on the assessment process and procedures for AET NQF level 1 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20130515 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Regulations on the assessment process and procedures for AET NQF level 1. Government Gazette, Number 36463 Description: Replacement regulations for assessment of the GETC:ABET (NQF level 1) that provides technical details on the assessment process and procedures including a list of all the component Unit Standards of the qualification (fundamental, core and elective) Keywords: adult basic education, NQF, assessment, qualifications, standards

Workshop: Open learning in Adult Education and Training Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20130528 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2012. Workshop: Open learning in Adult Education and Training. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Report on the workshop Keywords: adult education, open learning, literacy, practitioners, distance education, qualifications

Education for All (EFA) 2013 Country Progress Report: South Africa Author: Department of Basic Education Date: 20130619 Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2013. Education for All (EFA) 2013 Country Progress Report: South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education Description: Has sections on the Learning needs of young people and adults (pp. 24-28) and on the Adult literacy rate and the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign (pp. 29-31, 38) and conclusions on these (p. 63) Keywords: literacy, YALE, adult basic education, adult education, skills, statistics, KRG

DHET Annual report 2012/2013 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training. Date: 20130828 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Annual report 2012/2013. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Has limited information on adult education and training (pp. 17, 41, 52, 64, 82, 88) and notes inadequate funding, enrolment targets not met and no training Keywords: literacy, YALE, adult basic education, adult education, skills, statistics, finance

The right to adult and community education Authors: Baatjes, B. and Baatjes, I. Date: 20130829 Reference: Baatjes, B. and Baatjes, I. 2013. The right to adult and community education. Johannesburg: The Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg Description: Booklet explaining the constitutional rights to basic education with explanatory material on definitions, examples of provision, etc. Keywords: adult education, community education, policy, ideology

Macro Indicator Report Author: Department of Basic Education Date: 201310 Reference:Department of Basic Education. Macro Indicator Report. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education Description: Has a section on youth and adult literacy (pp. 70-77) but that doesn't mention the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign, and states (p. 90) that adult education received only 0.9 % of the provincial education budget in 2010/2011 Keywords: statistics, literacy, YALE

Getting the job done: What actually happens after an international action plan has been approved? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20131206 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2013. Getting the job done: What actually happens after an international action plan has been approved? Adult Education and Development, Number 80, pp. 18-21 Description: A reflection on the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa research study on Youth and Adult Education in five Southern African countries: Angola (Figueri and Inácio, 2012), Lesotho (Setoi, 2012), Mozambique (Luis, 2012), Namibia (Shaleyfu, 2012), and Swaziland (Jele, 2012), and a synthesis report (Aitchison, 2012) and what happened subsequent to their publication by way of implemention of recommendations (which echoed those of the Belém Framework for Action of 2009) Keywords: policy, plan, implementation, evaluation

Literacy and basic skills as the basis for lifelong learning Author: McKay, V.I. Date: 20131212 Reference: McKay, V.I. 2012. Presentation on Literacy and basic skills as the basis for lifelong learning. Pretoria: University of South Africa Description: Comprehensive presentation looking at literacy, the Kha Ri Gude Literacy campaign and inclusive education Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, lifelong learning, NQF, KRG, statistics

DHET Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2013 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201503 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2015. DHET Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2013. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Has a section on adult education and training, both public (pp. 49-57) and private (pp. 58-60) Keywords: statistics, community colleges, CLCs, adult education, PALCs

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2014

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2014

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2014 Author: Kha Ri Gude or Auditor General (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2014. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Auditor General. 2014. Pretoria: Auditor General Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 2014 KRG Older learners for unknown year (2012 or 2013?) 2014 KRG Learners and under age learners 2008 - 2013 SAnews.gov.za (Tswane) 2014 SAnews.gov.za (Tswane) Govt tackles KRG concerns 20140111 KRG Statistics - finance and disabled 2008-2012 20140203 Auditor General Management Report 3 February 2014 with comments by McKay 20140203 Auditor General Management Report of 3 February 2014 with comments by Aitchison 20140206 Auditor General 2nd KRG Steering Committee minutes 20140325 Auditor General Meeting with current and previous CEOs of the Kha Ri Gude campaign 20140326 KRG Response to the draft Management Report of the Auditor-General Draft 2 201404 Auditor General on Dropout with comments 20140403 KRG Response to the draft Management Report of the Auditor-General Draft 20140404 Auditor General Request no 6 for info for KRG performance audit 20140516 NLRD Kha Ri Gude analysis - 2014 0516 20140602 Auditor General Communication of audit finding no 1 of 2014 20141121 KRG Answer to Parliamentary question 2871 on Kha Ri Gude and AET from Bozzoli 20140604 AG Annexure - Discrepancies between actual and completed attendance with Aitchison comments 20140604 AG Annexure - Kha Ri Gude Progression with Aitchison comments 20140604 AG Annexure - Kha Ri Gude Progression 20140604 AG Annexure - KRG overall achievement with Aitchison comments 20140604 AG Annexure - Recruitment of Learners and Volunteer Educators with comments 20140606 Auditor General Communication of performance audit finding no 4 of 2014 20140611 Auditor General Communication of performance audit findings no 5 of 2014 20140711 Auditor General Communication of performance audit findings No 9 of 2014 20140707 KRG response to Auditor General audit query 5 201408 Auditor General Final Management Report 20140819 Auditor General Annexure A re Corrective measures instituted or envisaged 20140822 KRG Memo from Ramarumo to DDG re final audit version 2 20140825 Adler, Aitchison and French SAQA report on KRG verification 2013 final 20141022 KRG Terms of Reference Formative Evaluation of KRG workbooks KRG Bongani Rainmaker KRG LAP return statistics 2009 - 2013 20141121 KRG Answer to Parliamentary question 2871 on Kha Ri Gude and AET from Bozzoli

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2014/2015

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2014/2015 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014/2015 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2014/15. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). In 2015 the seventh checking of the quality and authenticity of the Learner Assessment Portfolios was done solely through over 300 site visits and the later comparing of data from learners collected on the site visits matched with the already returned Learner Assessment Portfolios. 20141126 KRG BUDGET 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 20141224 KRG Response to SAQA queries 201503 SAQA KRG Moderation Verification process guidelines 2015 20151123 SAQA Report on KRG verification 2014/2015 final Site visits 20140902 SAQA KRG SVR 20 steps 20141214 SAQA KRG Broad initial allocation of sites for February 2015 visits 2015 SAQA KRG draft site visit process guide 2015 SAQA KRG SVR set cover summary data 2015 SAQA KRG Verification form site visit 20150113 SAQA KRG SVR draft 20150114 SAQA KRG 2015 site visit process guide 20150114 SAQA KRG Site visit logistics schedule 20150123 SAQA KRG ISVR page setting guide 20150124 SAQA KRG site visit cover sheet Questionnaire 20150201 SAQA KRG Learning sites (xlsx file) 20150223 Adler letter to DG re site visits 20150227 SAQA KRG SV Samuels to Padyachee 20150527 KRG Eastern Cape summary report on SAQA verification sites visit 2015

General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) - 2014

General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) documents - 2014 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) is a qualification at Level 1 of the National Qualifications Framework (equivalent to Grade 9 in General schooling) that aims to provide evidence that adult students are equipped with a sufficiently substantial basis of discipline-based knowledge, skills and values to enhance meaningful social, political and economic participation, to form a basis for further and/or more specialist learning e.g. the National Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA), and possibly to enhance the likelihood of employment. Keywords: adult basic education, qualifications, assessment, curriculum, NQF 20140307 DHET Call for comments on new GETCA (Government Gazette) 201403 Aitchison comments on new GETCA (Government Gazette) 201410 DHET Draft National Training Strategy for GETCA and NASCA educators 2015-2016 201411 DHET Draft Implementation guidelines for Assessment for AET NQF 1 20141103 Umalusi Open Letter on GETC-ABET Level 4

National Adult Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) - 2014

National Adult Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) documents - 2014 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The National Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) is a National Certificate at Level 4 on the General and Further Education and Training Qualifications Sub-framework of the National Qualifications Framework. It was conceptualised as a qualification aimed at adult learners rather than schoolhildren. The NASCA provides a general educational pathway for adults. Its focus, through broad, discipline-based curricula, is to build a reliable general education underpinned by the necessary cognitive proficiencies to support further study. Keywords: adult further education, qualifications, assessment, curriculum, NQF 20140620 Burroughs Mail and Guardian Adults to get a crack at a new matric20140902 DHET Umalusi NASCA policy 201410 DHET Draft National Training Strategy for GETCA and NASCA educators 2015-2016 201411 DHET NASCA Mathematics subject statement 2014 DHET NASCA conduct of examinations regulations

Community Colleges - 2014

Community College documents - 2014 Author: As ascribed Date: 2014 Reference: As ascribed. 2014. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 2014 DHET AET learner stats 2014 2014 DHET AET staff stats 2014 2014 Discussion Document on DHET management of AET by Auditor General 2014 Needs and assets of a PALC for the visually impaired 20140109 White paper for post-school education and training 201402 Policy on Qualifications in Higher Education Policy for AET Educators and CET College lecturers 20140318-0800 DHET Circulars on function shift 20140606 Draft CETC Policy 20140621 Adult Learning Forum WC Invite to workshop on CC policy 20140704 Draft National Policy on Community Colleges GG 20140707 Withdrawal of call for comments on FETC Act amendments of 4 July 20140708 DHET Function Shift Circular No, 2 of 2014 20140808 CEPD Final Invite for Popular Education and Community Colleges National Workshop 20140910-12 DHET AET Internal Task team meeting minutes 20140921 DHET Draft Social Inclusion Policy 20141006 DHET Implementation plan for community colleges 20141008 Commencement of FET Colleges Amendment Act of 2013 20141024 JET American Comunity Colleges Lessons for SA 201411 DHET Establishment of Community College Councils (draft) 20141107 DHET Community College Policy draft plus call for comment 20141107 DHET Consultation with PALC Governing Bodies GG 20141107 DHET Draft National policy on community colleges 20141107 Proposal - Phase 1 Worker and Community Education College 20141201-02 DHET AET HEDCOM CET sub-committee meeting 20141201-02 DHT HEDCOM CET sub-committee mtg draft programme 20141207 Submission on Community Colleges Draft Policy Dec 2014 20141211 Western Cape Education Department Minute 0017 2014 201603 DHET Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa 2014 20150225 Comments on the draft national policy on community colleges (Aitchison)

Circulars on function shift Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20140318-0800 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Circulars on function shift. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Circulars relating to the shift, scheduled for finalisation by 1 April 2015, of control of state adult education provision (in the Public Adult Learning Centres) and TVET Colleges from the provincial departments of education to the national Department of Higher Education and Training Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, policy, provision, governance, finance, PALCs, CLCs, Community colleges

Proclamation of the commencement of the Further Education and Training Colleges Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20141008 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. Proclamation of the commencement of the Further Education and Training Colleges Amendment Act, 2013, Government Gazette, Volume 592, Number 38072 Description: Formal proclamation Keywords: TVET, FET, legislation

Establishment of Community College Councils Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201411 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Establishment of Community College Councils. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Draft government notice on setting up interim councils for community colleges and the appointment of members of Council and electing members of the Academic Board Keywords: policy, community colleges, governance, HRD

Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on the merging of PALCs Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20141107 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on the merging of PALCs. Government Gazette, Volume 593, Number 38158 Description: Provides for a supposed consultation about how, as functions move from Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the current P ALCs will be deemed to be Community Colleges, and, as soon as this is effected, all the Community Colleges will be merged into nine Community Colleges, one per province. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs

Draft National Policy on Community Colleges Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20141107 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Draft National Policy on Community Colleges. Government Gazette, Volume 593, Number 38158 Description: Provides background and rationale for the creation of community colleges but fails to give substance to the Task team report of 2012 or to provide for an institutional structure to manage and improve provision in a multitude of existing adult education centres, and simply replicates an inappropriate TVET college model Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, PALCs, CLCs

Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges - 2014

Author: Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014 Reference: Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges. 2014. Title. Pretoria: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Description: The main purpose of this evaluation, done for the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on contract by the South African Institute of Distance Education, was to assess the relevance and appropriateness of the draft policy on community colleges (PCC), with a particular focus on its fitness for purpose, its internal and external coherence, and its readiness to be implemented and evaluated in the future. The timing of the evaluation coincided with the release of the draft Policy for public comment. The findings of the evaluation were intended to feed directly into the policy refinement process. The draft Community College Policy document was finally only made available in November 2014, instead of the anticipated date of July, which meant that this final design evaluation report was not completed prior to the refinement process. However Stakeholder Meetings and a presentation to DHET officials in February and March, 2015 provided the findings to the DHET to include in the refinement. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, PALCs, CLCs, monitoring and evaluation 2014 What is in the White Paper 2014 20140612 DEPCC Attendance Register (Briefing) June 12, 2014 20140612 DEPCC Minutes of the Initial Briefing Session with the Service Provider 20140702 DEPCC Evaluation Steering Committee 20140710 DEPCC Inception report 20140717 DEPCC Agenda for the PCC Steering Committee Meeting 20140717 DEPCC Attendance Register July 17, 2014 20140722 DEPCC Logframe reworked 20140909 DEPCC Evaluation SLA 20140911 DEPCC DPME Theory of Change (TOC) guide 20141008-09 DEPCC TOC Workshop 8-9 presentation 20141008-09 DEPCC TOC Workshop (photos) 20141020 DEPCC New template with existing policy (October 2014 draft) 20141202 DEPCC Interview schedule for senior officials

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2014

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworksfor Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centre documents - 2014 Author: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres Date: 2014 Reference: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres. 2014. Title. Pretoria: Department of HigherEducation and Training Description: The Ministerial Committee was set up in mid-2014 to revise the Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (VCET) funding norms which are the national Norms and Standards for Funding Further Education and Training Colleges (now renamed Technical and Vocational Education and Training Colleges) as well as the national Norms and Standards for Funding Adults Learning Centres (the PALCs,in 2015 renamed CLCs). The original duration of the committee was to be twelve months but the final report was only submitted in July 2017. The main purposes of the Ministerial Committee was to review the current funding framework for TVET Colleges to ensure effectiveness of the funding framework in enabling these Colleges to play a key role in producing a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path and align the norms and funding standards of the OALCs to the new proposed institutional type, Whatis, the Community Education and Training Colleges (CET Colleges). Keywords: TVET, FET, adult education, Community Colleges, PALCs, CLCs, evaluation, policy, governance, finance 2014 TVET College Operational Plan Spreadsheet (xlsx file) 201401 Education Statistics in South Africa 2012 final version 2 20140614 MCFF Draft TOR Funding norms for FET Colleges 20140619 MCFF Draft TOR Funding norms for ALCs 20140619 MCFF Letter of appointment 20140619 20141003 MCFF Gazetting of Ministerial Committee to Review the Funding Frameworks for FET Colleges and ALCs 20141106 Bird A Aligning planning and resourcing cycles in SETAs and Colleges

South African REFLECT Network (SARN) - 2014

South African REFLECT Network (SARN) documents - 2014 Author: South African REFLECT Network (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2014 Reference: South African REFLECT Network. 2014. Johannesburg: South African REFLECT Network Description: The South Africa REFLECT Network (SARN) was formally established in July 2005 and evolved out of an informal network of Reflect practitioners who had been exchanging experiences of Reflect practice since 2000, with a growing concern to ensure HIV/AIDS and women's rights were mainstreamed into adult education and development work. The Network sought to ensure quality implementation of Reflect practice, to pool expertise, strengthen learning, and to generate information that can change practices which sustain and/or create disadvantage and inequality. The Network formally closed after funding ceased. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, HIV-AIDS, sex and gender 20140128 SARN Skype Meeting 20140219 SARN Project Planning Matrix 2014 20140315 SARN Report to Board Jan-Feb 2014 20140331 SARN Proposal for new partnership between SARN, CCELAT and EE 20140507 SARN Skype Meeting 7May 2014 20140527 SARN Skype Meeting 27 May 2014 20140530 SARN Cash Flow Projection May 2014 20140614 SARN Creating a cohort of REFLECT trainers and continuing to propagate the REFLECT approach 20140614 SARN Strategic workshop agenda 20140614 SARN Strategic review workshop notes 20140614-15 SARN Workshop 14 June 2014 20140615 SARN Board Meeting 20140615 SARN Board statement to DVV representative 20140618 SARN letter to Farrell Hunter of DVV 20140B06 SARN Report to Board June-July 2014 20140925 SARN Financial Report Jan-Aug 2014 20141106 SARN Report to Board Oct - Nov 2014 20141107 SARN resolution re office 2014

Seven stories, the last not ended Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2014 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2014. Seven stories, the last not ended. Fine Print, Volume 36, Number 3, pp. 31-33 Description: An engaging update on South Africa's ongoing struggles for a better deal for adult literacy and basic education, making use of seven supposed archetypal story plots: Overcoming the monster, Rags to riches, Quest, Voyages and return, Tragedy, Comedy/Farce, and Rebirth Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plans, ideology, history

Profile of adult education in West and Southern Africa Author: Biao, I. Date: 2014 Reference: Biao, I. 2014. Profile of adult education in West and Southern Africa. Gaberone, Botswana: University of Botswana Description: Study of six West and Southern African countries' adult education profile using six categories: political will, adult education programmes, personnel, learners, and research Keywords: adult education, policies, plan, legislation, provision, practitioners, research, statistics, universities, research,

Needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired: an educational study of Bosele Author: Sekgobela, E.M. Date: 2014 Reference: Sekgobela, E.M. 2014. Needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired: an educational study of Bosele. Polokwane: University of Limpopo [Master of Education Mini-dissertation] Description: A case study of research about establishing the needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired that discovered a number of inadequacies in the provision (lack of up to date materials and professional support to pratitioners, lack of mapping of available assets Keywords: disability, PALC, materials, practitioners, research

Grounding adult education research in rural areas: reflections on the development of a research program at the University of Limpopo in South Africa Authors: Jacques Zeelen, J., Rampedi, M., and van der Linden, J. Date: 2014 Reference: Jacques Zeelen, J., Rampedi, M., and van der Linden, J. 2014. Grounding adult education research in rural areas: reflections on the development of a research program at the University of Limpopo in South Africa, Adult Education Quarterly, 2014, Volume 64, Number 1, pp. 20–38 Description: Describes areas of adult education research at the University of Limpopo: adult education needs assessment and community development, young adults at risk, adult health education, policy and implementation issues, globalization, social exclusion, and lifelong learning Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, development, universities, research

White Paper for Post-School Education and Training Author: Department of Higher education and Training Date: 20140116 Reference: Department of Higher education and Training. 2014. White Paper for Post-School Education and Training. Government Gazette, Number 37229. Description: The White Paper (approved by the cabinet on 20 Novemmber 2013) recommends development plans for the expansion of post-school provision for youth and a large number of adults. Included is a brief section proposing core-funded and well-staffed Community Colleges (which would cluster the Public Adult Learning Centres) and expand provision nearly 400%. They would offer formal and non-formal programmes. They would be monitored and evaluated by a division within a new South African Institute for Vocational Education and Training. There is also an Executive summary. Keywords: policy, PSET, plan, comunity cfolleges, PALCs, non-formal education, monitoring and evaluation

White paper Seminar series: Number 2: Matters arising from the White paper Author: Singh, D. Date: 20140214 Reference: Singh, D. 2014. White paper Seminar series: Number 2: Matters arising from the White paper. Pretoria: University of South Africa Description: Summarises and raises a number of queries, challenges, and recommendations about the White paper Keywords: policy, plan, curriculum, qualifications

Keynote address by Minister Nzimande at Stakeholder meeting on the future of Adult Education and Training Centres Author: Nzimande, B.E. Date: 20140216 Reference: Nzimande, B.E. 2014. Keynote address by Minister Nzimande at Stakeholder meeting on the future of Adult Education and Training Centres. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Discusses the White paper, the report of the Community Education and Training Centres Task Team, the draft Policy on Community Colleges, and the draft Policy on Professional Qualifications for Community Education and Training Educators, as well as noting the huge number of potential learners requiring some form of post-school education and training. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, qualifications, practitioners, adult education

Catholic Institute of Education, Briefing Paper 351: Fighting Adult Illiteracy: ABET, Kha Ri Gude, and the White Paper Author: Pasensie, K. Date: 201405 Reference: Pasensie, K. 2014. Catholic Institute of Education, Briefing Paper 351: Fighting Adult Illiteracy: ABET, Kha Ri Gude, and the White Paper. Johannesburg: Catholic Institute of Education Description: Briefing paper on these issues Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, plan, KRG,

Research Study on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa Author: South African Institute for Distance Education Date: 20140625 Reference: South African Institute for Distance Education. 2014. Research Study on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa. Johannesburg: South African Institute for Distance Education Description: Proposal for a reserach study Keywords: YALE, research, NGOs

DHET Function Shift Circular No. 2 of 2014 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20140708 Reference: X. 2014. Function Shift. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Important description of the processes involved in the function shift (that is moving the locus of control) from provinces to national of Techical and Vocational Education Colleges and Adult Education and Training (Community College) Keywords: policy, plan, TVET, adult education, communityt colleges, finance

Throwing good money after bad: the barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators Author: Blom, R. Date: 20140713 Reference: Blom, R. 2014. Throwing good money after bad: the barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators. [Paper presented at the Further Education Research Association Inaugural International Research Conference, Friday 11 July – Sunday, 13 July, 2014] Description: Argues that the state proposing policy and conceptualising qualifications for vocational educators may not be the most urgent, nor the most effective, interventions in the short to medium term, compared to the non-academic, the non-subject matter, barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators. Keywords: FET, TVET, policy, qualifications, practitioners, universities

Post-School Education Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 Authors: Various Date: 20140714 Reference: Various. 2014. Post-School Education Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1. Johannesburg: Education Policy Consortium Description: Most of the articles in this new journal relate to adult education and development Editorial ( Enver Motala and Salim Vally) White Paper on Post School Education and Training : Some new policy directions (Paul Kgobe & Ivor Baatjes) On the White Paper: Post-school education and socially useful employment (Enver Motala) VUT panel discussion on Post-schooling : Critical Reflections (Bernadette Johnson) NMI and CIPSET’s approach on education the economy and society (Enver Motala and Ivor Baatjes) Education, the economy and society: Book Launch Advance Reviews Skills? What Skills? Jobs? What Jobs? The South African skills shortage? (Stephanie Allais) Misrepresenting the Causes of Unemployment (John Treat and Enver Motala) Contradictions and Contestations: NUMSA in the formulation of skills policies since the 1990s (Siphelo Ngcwangu) Two villages, four researchers, one inspiring experience (Britt Baatjes, Sonya Leurquain-Steyn, Olwam Mnqwazi and Khanyisile Ngalo) Emerging Voices 2: Creating space for critical dialogue and advocacy in communities. A role for emerging voices in re-imagining post-school education (David Balwanz) Reflections on the importance of community education: Bluelilies Bushes (Sonya Leurquain-Steyn) Reflections on the Stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Adult Education and Training Centres (Astrid von Kotze) Adult Education: Imagining what might have been (Sheri Hamilton) The Geopolitics of TVET policy and the World Bank (Veerle Dieltiens and Siphelo Ngcwangu) Community Education Manifesto Students for Social Change Convention (Olwam Mnqwazi) Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, community, PALCs, development, skills, policy, ideology

Draft Invitation to National Workshop on Popular Education and Community Colleges Author: Centre for Education Policy Development Date: 20140808 Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2014. Draft Invitation to National Workshop on Popular Education and Community Colleges. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development Description: Invitation to a workshop to examine the new policy on community colleges as part of a feasibility study into the establishment of Community Colleges funded by the Education Training and Development Practices (ETDP) SETA Keywords: community colleges, policy, plan, research

Draft Minutes of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 12 September 2014 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20140910-12 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Draft Minutes of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 11 September 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The AET Internal Task Team was established based on the recommendations made by the Community Education and Training Colleges (CETC) Task Team. The minutes of the meeting deal technical details of the Annual Performance Plan, the Function shift of PALCs from provincial to national control, an update on Community Education and Training Policy, the identificationof sites for Community Education and Training Centres, Quarterly reporting, Design evaluation, the Funding framework, an update on Kha Ri Gude and the absorption of learner into adult education programmes, updates on the NASCA, the Senior Certificate, and the GETCA, Curriculum support workshops and Educator qualification policy, and Educator contracts Keywords: policy, plan, governance, legislation, curriculum, finance, qualifications, educators, evaluation

Assessment of non-formal adult education and training centres'enabling environments for employment and poverty reducation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Author: Mayombe, C. Date: 201411 Reference: Mayombe, C. 2014. Assessment of non-formal adult education and training centres'enabling environments for employment and poverty reducation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Pretoria: University of Pretoria [Phd thesis] Description: A study, prompted by the reality that graduates of the programmes run in the state's Public Adult Learning Centres had little impact on the employability, found that, though there were policies, plans and regulations to create enabling environments to foster skills in the labour market, at the PALC level there were weak linkages with essential post-training support, community resources, public goods and services which could enable them to access employment. PALCs needed to focus more on Further Education programmes, on self-employment in income generating environments and that PALC managers should should establish strong institutional linkages with community leaders, puhlic agencies and private sectors from the beginning of the training programme Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, further education, community education, KwaZulu-Natal, development, training, educators, trainers, practitioners, PALCs

Proposal for a feasibility study and consultations. Re- establishment of a worker and community education college. Phase 1 Research (feasibility study) Author: Workers College Date: 20141107 Reference: Workers College. 2014. Proposal for a feasibility study and consultations. Re- establishment of a worker and community education college. Phase 1 Research (feasibility study). Durban: Workers College Description: This proposal was submitted to the Education, Training and Development Practices SETA for funding by the Workers College, the CEPD, and Ditsela to solicit funding for a feasibility study into the establishment of an institution (FET/ Community College) for the benefit of community organisations, NGOs and workers and their organizations. Keywords: community education, worker education, unions, workplace learning, finance, research, NGOs

OECD A skills beyond school review of South Africa Authors: Field, S., Musset, P., and Álvarez-Galván, J-L. Date: 20141117 Reference: Field, S., Musset, P., and Álvarez-Galván, J-L. 2014. OECD A skills beyond school review of South Africa. Paris: OECD Publishing Description: Notes the importance of vocational education and training and that South Africa's challenge is greater than most other emerging economies, sees the DHET taking responsibility for it as a positive policy move , as are its proposals for community colleges, and sets out several recommendations Keywords: skills, development, policy, plan, NQF, TVET, finance

Adult Education and Training HEDCOM sub-committee meeting Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20141201-02 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Adult Education and Training HEDCOM sub-committee meeting. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: The agenda for the meeting of the adult education and training sub-committee of HEDCOM (the Committee of Heads of [Provincial Departments [of Education]) includes a large set of annexures: Circulars on Function Shift, Draft Policy on Community Colleges, Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on Merging of PALCs, Establishment of Community College Councils, Proclamation of the Further Education and Training Collges Act of 2013, NASCA NQF Level 4 Draft Subject Statement - Mathematics, Draft Implementation Guidelines for Regulations on Assessment Process and Procedures for AET NQF 1, NASCA Conduct of Exams Regulations, Draft National Strategic/ Plan for GETCA and NASCA Educators 2015/16, Policy for the National Senior Certificate, and the Draft Minutes of the meeting of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 11 September 2014 Keywords: policy, plan, governance, legislation, curriculum, assessment, finance, qualifications, educators, evaluation

Education for All 2014 Country Progress Report Author: Department of Basic Education Date: 20141209 Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2014. Education for All 2014 Country Progress Report. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education Description: Has reports on the learning needs of young people and adults, the adult literacy rate, adult basic education and the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, KRG, statistics

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2014 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160325 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Reports and has statistics on adult education provision and funding, both public and private on pages: 1, 3, 54-66, 76-77, and 84 and notes the difficulty of obtaining data from public adult education centres (only 58% of questionnaires returned compared with 89% from private centres) Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, finance, statistics, research, educators

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Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2015

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2015 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2015 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2015. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 20141126 KRG Budget 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 2015 Draft Letter re Auditor General query on entry level of candidates 20160623 KRG Registration Stats 2015 201507 Romm and Dichaba Assessing the KRG Mass Literacy campaign A developmental evaluation 20150709 Hanemann Lifelong literacy Some trends and issues 20150730 McKay Measuring and monitoring in the South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2015/2016

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2015/2016 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2015/2016 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2015/2016. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). In 2016 the eighth checking of the quality and authenticity of the Learner Assessment Portfolios was done through moderation in June 2016 of a sample of 17 151 LAPs and a matching of the data obtained from site visits where assessment tests given to over 300 classes in May 2016 to the already completed Learner Assessment Portfolios. 2016 SAQA KRG Verification form data capture 20160603 SAQ KRG Training guide 2016 20160603 SAQA KRG Moderation Verification guidelines 2016 20160619-21 SAQA KRG report on Kha Ri Gude verification process (Mary Selepe) 20160619-22 SAQA KRG report on Kha ri gude verification process (Motswene) 20160620-21 SAQA KRG report on Kha Ri Gude verification process (Calvin) 20160620-21 SAQA KRG verification workshop (photos) 20160627 SAQA KRG Update on the external moderation and verification (French) 20160802 SAQA KRG Brief synopsis of verification 2016 (French) 20160814 Some comments on the Kha Ri Gude Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) (Aitchison) 20160815 Senior verifiers reports after the moderation event 20160908 SAQA report on KRG verification of cohort 2015-2016 final 20161012 SAQA KRG Memo to SAQA Board Site visits 2016 SAQA KRG 2016 ISVRs full set 20160322 Suggested English Site visit test revisions (Aitchison) 20160407 SAQA KRG 2016 Site contact record 20160605 SAQA KRG EC site visits report (Pumlani) 20160619-21 SAQA KRG report on Kha Ri Gude verification process (Mary Selepe) 20160814 SAQA KRG 2016 Tally of comments on site verification forms 20160814 SAQA KRG Site visit cover questionnaires summary 2016081 SAQA KRG Senior verifiers reports after the moderation event

Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges - 2015

Author: Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2015 Reference: Design Evaluation of Draft Policy on Community Colleges. 2015. Title. Pretoria: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Description: The main purpose of this evaluation, done for the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on contract by the South African Institute of Distance Education, was to assess the relevance and appropriateness of the draft policy on community colleges (PCC), with a particular focus on its fitness for purpose, its internal and external coherence, and its readiness to be implemented and evaluated in the future. The timing of the evaluation coincided with the release of the draft Policy for public comment. The findings of the evaluation were intended to feed directly into the policy refinement process. The draft Community College Policy document was finally only made available in November 2014, instead of the anticipated date of July, which meant that this final design evaluation report was not completed prior to the refinement process. However Stakeholder Meetings and a presentation to DHET officials in February and March, 2015 provided the findings to the DHET to include in the refinement. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, CLCs, monitoring and evaluation 20150125 DEPCC DHET Interview questions 20150128 DEPCC Questions to Treasury and Senior management of Ministry and DHET 20150211 DEPCC New template for design evaluation of existing policy 20150216 DHET Treasury bid for Community colleges 20150218 DEPCC Common ideas emerging from interviews 20150226 Qualitative analysis of the Draft policy on Community Colleges 20150227 DEPCC Evaluation Questions to Treasury 20150227 DEPCC Summary of interview narrative 20150313 DEPCC Interview with J Pampallis 20150313 DEPCC Questions for DHET Advisor 20150316 Adriene Bird email on DEPCC 20150319 DEPCC Eval Presentation 20150324 DEPCC Eval Presentation Final 20150610 DEPCC - DHET Feedback 201508 DEPCC Evaluation Report Summary Final 201508 DEPCC Evaluation Report Full Final 20150812 DEPCC Appendix 1 Policy Fiche 20150812 DEPCC Appendix 2 PCC Evaluation Instruments 20150812 DEPCCAppendix 3 PCC Evaluation Respondents 20150812 DEPCC Community College Policy Design Evaluation Literature Review

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training - 2015

Author: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2015 Reference: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training . 2015. Title. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: In 2015 the The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) commenced a process to develop a National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (NP-PSET) for the period 2017 to 2030 to give effect to the White Paper on Post-school Education and Training of 2014. A co-ordination team was set up to manage three core Task Teams: Higher education and training, Technical and Vocational education and training, and Community Education and Training. The latter team was chaired by Peliwe Lolwana. A draft plan was finalised in 2019 but the finally published plan (for the years 2021 to 2030) only came out in October 2021. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, CLCs, monitoring and evaluation 20150120 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20150217 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20150314 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20151205 NPPSET Letter to Prof Aitchison

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2015

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworksfor Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centre documents - 2015 Author: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres Date: 2015 Reference: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres. 2015. Title. Pretoria: Department of HigherEducation and Training Description: The Ministerial Committee was set up in mid-2014 to revise the Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (VCET) funding norms which are the national Norms and Standards for Funding Further Education and Training Colleges (now renamed Technical and Vocational Education and Training Colleges) as well as the national Norms and Standards for Funding Adults Learning Centres (the PALCs,in 2015 renamed CLCs). The original duration of the committee was to be twelve months but the final report was only submitted in July 2017. The main purposes of the Ministerial Committee was to review the current funding framework for TVET Colleges to ensure effectiveness of the funding framework in enabling these Colleges to play a key role in producing a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path and align the norms and funding standards of the OALCs to the new proposed institutional type, that is, the Community Education and Training Colleges (CET Colleges). Keywords: TVET, FET, adult education, Community Colleges, PALCs, CLCs, evaluation, policy, governance, finance 20150225 Estimates of National Expenditure (abridged) 20150326 MCFF Questions for CET Colleges Reference Group 20150814 DHET Letter re Field work at selected CET and TVET Colleges by the Ministerial Committee 20150820 MCFF Quarterly Progress Report 20151015 DHET Presentation to MCFF on Discussion document on adapting the NNSF-ALCs to the envisaged CET colleges 20160331 MCFF Quartely Progress Report covering the period July-September 2015 Adult Learning Centre site visits 2015 MCFF Visits to ALCs - reports and completed questionnaires 20150812 MCFF Site visit CLC Questionnaire final 20150821 MCFF Selected PALCs to visit (xlsx file) 20151016 MCFF Site visit questionnaire - draft Gauteng 20151108 MCFF Site visits to Community Learning Centres – Free State, Northern Cape, North West (Aitchison) 20151123 MCFF Presentation on site visits - In the Flat lands (Aitchison) CLCs 20150922 ilungelolethu CLC completed questionnaire (annotated) (KwaZulu-Natal) 20150922 ilungelolethu CLC presentation (KwaZulu-Natal) 20151006 Mphareng CLC Completed Questionnaire (Limpopo) 20151013 Mpolweni CLC completed questionnaire (annotated) (KwaZulu-Natal) 20151013 Mpolweni CLC visit (KwaZulu-Natal) (photos) (JJWA) 20151013 Mpolweni CLC visit (KwaZulu-Natal) (photos Z) 20151013 Mpolweni CLC visit (video) (mp4 file) 20151014 Mpolweni VLC visit presentation (KwaZulu-Natal) (Aitchison) 20151016 Masifunde CLC Completed questionnaire (KwaZulu-Natal) 20151027 Ponelopele CLC Completed Questionnaire (Free State) 20151027 Ponelopele 2 CLC visit (Central Bloemfontein, Free State) (Aitchison) 20151027 Ponelopele CLC visit (Free State) (photos) 20151029 Galeshewe CLC Completed Questionnaire (Northern Cape) 20151029 Galeshewe CLC visit (Kimberley, Northern Cape) 20151029 Galshewe CLC visit (Northern Cape) (photos) 20151102 Masakhane CLC Completed Questionnaire (Northern Cape) 20151102 Masakhane CLC visit (Paballelo, Upington, Northern Cape) 20151102 Masakhane CLC visit (Northern Cape) (photos) 20151104 ltlhabolole CLC Completed Questionnaire (Mahikeng, North West) 20151104 ltlhabolole CLC visit (Mahikeng, North West) 20151104 ltlhabolole CLC visit (Mahikeng, North West) (photos) 20151105 Emang Mmogo CLC Completed Questionnaire (Jouberton, North West) 20151105 Emange Mmmogo CLC visit (Jouberton, North West) 20151105 Emang Mmogo CLC visit (Jouberton, North West) (photos) 20151106 Senkhoane CLC Completed Questionnaire (Free State) 20151106 Senkhoane CLC at Thabong in Welkom (Free State) illustrated 20151106 Senkhoane CLC visit (Free State) (photos)

Community Colleges - 2015

Community College documents - 2015 Author: As ascribed Date: 2015 Reference: As ascribed. 2015. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. The year 2015 was the year of the function shift and on 1 April all Technical and Vocational Education Colleges and Public Adult Learning Centres previously run by the provinces came under centralised national Department of Higher Education and Training control. In the case of the Public Adult Learning Centres, in a great legal sleight of hand, they were transformed (by name only) into individual Community Colleges and then, on the stroke of midnight, merged into only nine Community Colleges (one per province). Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 20150224 DHET Annual Performance Plan 2015/2016 20150224 DHET Strategic Plan 2015-2020 20150225 Estimates of National Expenditure (abridged) Vote 15 DHET pp 241-264 20150225 Comments on the draft national policy on community colleges (Aitchison) 20150312 Education and Skills Consolidated data 20150316 Establishment of a Community College Government Gazette 20150316 DHET Call for comments on NASCA curriculum 20150316 Establishment of CET Colleges Government Gazette No 38570 20150317 DHET Minister Statement on Community Colleges 201503 CETC Final Draft Policy Version 4 20150407 DHET Merger of community colleges in each province Government Gazette 38674 20150524 Wee - ABET to CET Seminar at UNISA 20150703 National Policy on Community Colleges Government Gazette No 38924 20150731 DHET Presentation on Programme structure for programme 6 20150820 CET Councils-Regional Officials and Principals 20150921 DHET Budget Presentation - CET Workshop 20150921 DHET CET Strategic Planning Workshop - Presentation FRAMEWORK on SP and APP 20150921-23 DHET Context for CET planning 20151014 Vote 15 Higher Education and Training Estimates of Expenditure 20151024 Aitchison From PALCs to Community Colleges SACHES (full version) 20151024 From Aitchison From PALCs to Community Colleges SACHES (short version) 20151109 National Norms and Standards for Funding Community Education and Training Colleges 20151121 Budget CET branch 2015 to 2018 201512 Green LN Investigating adult learning centre performance 2015 Function shift 201508 Induction schedule - August 2015 201509-10 Induction Pack-Delegations Cover Page 201509-10 Post Function Shift Induction Workshop Information Pack (part 1) 201509-10 Post Function Shift Induction Workshop Information Pack (part 2) 20150223 DHET Function Shift Circular No 1 of 2015 20150714 Delegations in terms of Public Service Act 1994 as amended 1 20151026 DHET Circular 01 2015 re Function shift [See above in the section on the Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres for documents on visits to adult learning centres.]

Transformative adult learning in new social movement – a case study from South Africa Author: Čubajevaitė, M. Date: 2015 Reference: Čubajevaitė, M. 2015.Transformative adult learning in new social movement – a case study from South Africa. International Journal of Area Studies, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 139-171 Description: This detailed multi-site case study examined a social movement (Community Literacy and Numeracy Groups (CLING), working on literacy issues in Gauteng, South Africa, the forms of learning and education the social movement used and the process of group conscientization and individual transformations. Semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion were held with 13 learners-activists and 2 adult educators. Mezirow’s individual transformation and Freirean group conscientization models were used in analysing the primary and secondary data. Keywords: adult education, experiential learning, non-formal education, development, literacy, research, ideology, history

Foundational Learning Competence Framework Author: Quality Council for Trades and Occupations Date: 20150225 Reference: Quality Council for Trades and Occupations. 2015. Foundational Learning Competence Framework. Pretoria: Quality Council for Trades and Occupations Description: The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) regulated that Foundational Learning Competence (FLC) is to be a compulsory component for all new qualifications developed by the Council at NQF levels 3 and 4. It is a part qualification that consists of two learning areas: Communication (i.e. English) and Mathematical Literacy. It outlines the minimum level of competence required for optimal functioning in the world of work and for occupational learning at NQF Levels 2-4. The FLC is directed at learners in occupational qualifications registered on the NQF at Level 2, 3 and 4. Learners may write the FLC external summative assessment without going through an FLC learning programme. If they are found to be competent they will receive the credits for the FLC. Keywords: NQF, skills, training, curriculum, assessment

Implementation guidelines for the regulations on the assessment process and procedures for adult education and training National Qualifications Framework Level 1 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20150302 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2012. Implementation guidelines for the regulations on the assessment process and procedures for adult education and training National Qualifications Framework Level 1. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Details of the regulations Keywords: NQ, adult education, adult basic education, assessment, curriculum

Policy on Minimum Requirements for programmes leading to Qualifications for educators and lecturers in Adult and Community Education and Training Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20150327 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2015. Policy on Minimum Requirements for programmes leading to Qualifications for educators and lecturers in Adult and Community Education and Training. Government Gazette Volume 577, Number 38612 Description: These detailed descriptions of the rules for each of the levels of higher education qualifications for adult and community education lecturers and teachers are extremely prescriptive, complicated (for example in the number of credits that may be given for particular areas of learning), tend to mimic the equivalent requirements for school teachers and seem to assume that adult education is largely formal school-equivalency programmes. Little scope is given for transferring of credits from one qualification to another. Keywords: Qualifications, adult education, community education, adult basic education

An overview of education in South Africa and children with disabilities Author: Spaull, N. Date: 20150821 Reference: Spaull, N. 2015. An overview of education in South Africa and children with disabilities. [Presentation to South African Association for Special Education Conference on 21 August 2015] Description: Although the presentation is about school children the dire statistics indicate the problem that adult education has in working with people who have had an indequate schooling. Keywords: reading, literacy, adult basic education, disability, dropout

DHET Communication Circular No 1/2015 [Changes is nomenclature] Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20150918 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2015. DHET Communication Circular No 1/2015 [Changes is nomenclature]. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Orders changes in nomenclature Keywords: adult basic education, adult education, community education

Andrew Miller: Literacy Pioneer who fought to spread the word Author: Barron, C. Date: 20150927 Reference: Barron, C. 2015. Andrew Miller: Literacy Pioneer who fought to spread the word. Sunday Times 27 September 2015 Description: Obituary of the one time CEO of Project Literacy which under his direction grew to be the leading literacy NGO, and one of the few to survive the post-apartheid decline of such NGOs Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, history, NGOs

Department of Higher Education and Training Annual report 2014/15 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20151019 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2015. Department of Higher Education and Training Annual report 2014/15. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Does not have much on adultb education but there are scattered references on pages 16, 18019, 32-34, 42, 49, 60, 134-136, 154 and 208 Keywords: adult education, community eduaction, adult basic education, finance, legislation

From PALCs to Community Colleges Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20151024 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2015. From PALCs to Community Colleges. [paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society held 24 to 26 October 2015 in Bloemfontein] Description: A critical account of the policies, programmes, outcomes (and associated bureaucratic machinations) of the attempts to run, reform and reconstitute the state funded Public Adult Learning Centre system, which is now, since 1 April 2015 a system (though only nominally) of community colleges There is also a shortened version of the paper. Keywords: adult basic education, adult further education, history, PALCs, CLCs, community colleges

Proposal for the New National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20151110 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2015. Proposal for the New National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS).Government Gazette, Volume 605, Number 39306 Description: Proposes a better integration of the skills development institutional landscape into the post-school system, and improved coordination of the skills levies so as to support education and training programmes aimed at preparing people for the world of work, as well as significant shifts to the intermediary institutions that support relationships between the post-school education and training system and the world of work, and the skills levy distribution model Keywords: skills, training, development, policy, plan

Post-School Education Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4 Authors: Various Date: 201512 Reference: Various. 2015. Post-School Education Review, Volume 1, Issue 4. Johannesburg: Education Policy Consortium Description: Several articles in this journal relate to adult education and development Editorial (Enver Motala and Salim Vally) Understanding Inequality Relationally (Enver Motala) Adult Educators and the Conditions of "Precarity" (Mondli Hlatswayo) Some Conceptual Tools for Imagining Non-formal Community Education (Irna Senekal ) HIV/AIDS in the Curriculum: NMMU Advocacy for the Inclusion of HIV/AIDS in Everyday Curricula (Lucky Maluleke) Toward a responsive curriculum for Post-School Education and Training (Tolika Sibiya ) Un-mandated Reflections on Student Leadership from #NMMUFeesMustFall (Olwam Mnqwazi ) TVET Lecturers: Reflections on Dialogues (Sonya Leurquain-Steyn ) Village at the End of the World (Britt Baatjes) Youth Experience in Post School Education and Unemployment in the Vaal (Khomotso Ntuli ) Rethinking Indigenous Skills: Building Bridges between Community Centres and Tertiary Institutions (Fatima Gabru) Keywords: adult education, TVET, ideology, development, health education

Unscrupulous academics buy into 'university 419 scam' Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20151211 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2015. Unscrupulous academics buy into 'university 419 scam', Mail & Guardian, 11 December 2015 Description: An exposé of the increasing practice of adult education university academics to publish in so called predatory journals to gain university subsidy and promotion kickbacks. The rise of predatory publications (essentially non-peer review vanity publications) had been publicised by a United States of America librarian, Jeffrey Beall (see Beall, 2017, What I learned from predatory publishers), and then in South Africa by Keyan Tomasselli (see Tomaselli, 2014, Of Publishing and Perishing). A particularly egregious example of such a predatory journal article from 2015 has been annotated by Aitchison (Mweli, et al, 2015, Adult illiteracy in South Africa post 1994: Policies and programs – a chronological account). Keywords: universities

Statistics on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Community Education and Training and private colleges examinations in South Africa: 2015 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201711 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2017. Statistics on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Community Education and Training and private colleges examinations in South Africa: 2015. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Statistics Keywords: statistics, community colleges, TVET, assessment, qualifications

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Community Colleges - 2016

Community College documents - 2016 Author: As ascribed Date: 2016 Reference: As ascribed. 2016. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration. From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. After April 2015 all the Public Adult Learning Centres previously run by the provinces came under centralised national Department of Higher Education and Training control, grouped into a nominal Community College in each province which had a small administrative hub. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 2016 Mutula Case study of Endleleni adult education centre and how it relates to the community in Madadeni, KwaZulu-Natal 2016 National Treasury 2016 extracts on adult education expenditure 20160120 PALCs in the Pietermaritzburg region (Umgungundlovu District) 20160215 Community colleges- the history and vision (Aitchison) 20160327 DHET Staffing norms for CET Colleges GG 40021 201605 DHET National policy on learning and teaching support materials for community education and training colleges 20160503 DHET Community Colleges Funding Model 20160503 v6 (xlsm file) 20160519 Budget CET branch 2015 to 2018 with JJW Aitchison queries 20160527 DHET CET Post Provisioning 20160527 DHET Norms and Standards for staffing CET colleges 201606 DHET Service delivery framework for community colleges 201606 DHET submission to the Presidential Commission on feasibility of fee-free higher education and training 20160607 KZN HRDT Presentation by Aitchison 201608 National Road shows on CET - Draft Staffing norms policy v2 201608 Rule et al Investigating efficacy in adult learning centres: a multi-case study- report 20160928 DHET National Policy for the Monitoring and Evaluation of CET Colleges 201610 Land Proposal for nonformal learning material database for CET colleges 20161004 DBE Presentation overview of PSET system

Kha Ri Gude - 2016

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2016 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2016 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2016. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. The year 2016 was the last year of full operations with some closing out work done in 2017. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 20141126 KRG Budget 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 2016 Effective Literacy Programmes, Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP) (UIL) 2016 KRG profile in UIL Literacy multilingual pp 65-71 2016 Vote 14 Basic Education Estimates of Expenditure 20160520 McKay Promoting lnclusivity through adult literacy (Draft with Aitchison comments) 20160606 Aitchison, Adler and French Memo to DBE re ABE 2 based on KRG 20160801 Mweli (DG) to KRG re Audit report 20160802 Notification letter re South Africa 2016 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy

Kha Ri Gude verification - 2016/2017

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2016/2017 Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2016/2017 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2016/2017. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016). Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)). In 2017 the ninth checking of the quality and authenticity of the Learner Assessment Portfolios was done through moderation on 19 to 19 September 2017 of a sample of 9714 LAPs. The planned for matching of data obtained from site visits with the LAPs was cancelled. 20160407 SAQA KRG Visitor folder 2013 to 2016 20170524 Hubutani KRG Preparation for site visits 2017 20170821 Email from French to Adler, Aitchison and Baloyi re cancellation of site visits 20170821 Email from John Aitchison to Edward French and David Adler 20170822 Memo to SAQA Board re entry level of candidates Draft 20171029 SAQA KRG moderation report from Hubutani 20171200 SAQA report on KRG 2016 final

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training - 2016

Author: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2016 Reference: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training . 2016. Title. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: In 2015 the The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) commenced a process to develop a National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (NP-PSET) for the period 2017 to 2030 to give effect to the White Paper on Post-school Education and Training of 2014. A co-ordination team was set up to manage three core Task Teams: Higher education and training, Technical and Vocational education and training, and Community Education and Training. The latter team was chaired by Peliwe Lolwana. A draft plan was finalised in 2019 but the finally published plan (for the years 2021 to 2030) only came out in October 2021. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, CLCs, monitoring and evaluation 2016 CIE Thabiso Skills Institute 2016 NPPSET National plan for PSET ToR for three core task teams 2016 NPPSET CET TT A budget for CC pilot in Pietermaritzburg 2016 NPPSET CET TT Notes on a plan for CET 20160119 DHET Update on the planning and implementation of Community Education and Training 20160120 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20160121 NPPSET Overview of White Paper and Implementation Priorities 20160128 NPPSET CET TT Notes on Principles of funding development (Aitchison) 20160215 Community colleges- the history and vision (Aitchison) 20160215 NPPSET Conceptual Framework to guide task team workplans 20160217 NPPSET CET TT Draft minute 20160220 NPPSET CET TT Draft Developing the Sector - Partnerships and Coordination (Mawoyo) 20160307 NPPSET CH TT CET Vision 20160312 NPPSET Framing CET Task team work onto the PSET Framework 20160314 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20160314 NPPSET CET TT Potential Student Population for Community Education and Training 20160419 NPPSET CET TT framework and workplan April 2016 20160420 NPET CET TT Qualifications discussion 20160420 NPPSET CET TT Approved Minutes 20160427 NPPSET CET TT Presentation on Youth and Community Support (Aitchison) 20160428 Catholic Institute of Education Community CET skills BUDGET 20160518 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20160520 NPPSET Progress Report of CET Task Team 201602 NPPSET Draft National plan for PSET Conceptual Framework 201606 DHET submission to the Presidential Commission on feasibility of fee-free higher education and training 20160616 NPPSET CET TT framework and workplan June 2016 20160623 NPPSET CET TT Draft chapter on Institutional development of the CH College (Lolwana) 20160720 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20160720 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 201608 DHET Presentation on mediation on CET Draft Staffing norms policy 20160815 NPPSET Task Team Oversight Group report for Steering Committee 20160815 NPPSET CET TT Draft chapter on CET College programmes (Lolwana) 20160830 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20160830 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20160903 DHET National plan for PSET Sector Technical report 20161025 DHET CET National strategy on partnerships with CET 20161101 NPPSET CETTT Draft material on Partnerships and Coordination (Mawayo) 20161101 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20161101 NPPSET CET TT Presentation on Towards a Governance and Management Framework for CET colleges - T Kulati 20170120 NPPSET CET TT Report for January Joint TT Meeting

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2016

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworksfor Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centre documents - 2016 Author: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres Date: 2016 Reference: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres. 2016. Title. Pretoria: Department of HigherEducation and Training Description: The Ministerial Committee was set up in mid-2014 to revise the Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (VCET) funding norms which are the national Norms and Standards for Funding Further Education and Training Colleges (now renamed Technical and Vocational Education and Training Colleges) as well as the national Norms and Standards for Funding Adults Learning Centres (the PALCs,in 2015 renamed CLCs). The original duration of the committee was to be twelve months but the final report was only submitted in July 2017. The main purposes of the Ministerial Committee was to review the current funding framework for TVET Colleges to ensure effectiveness of the funding framework in enabling these Colleges to play a key role in producing a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path and align the norms and funding standards of the OALCs to the new proposed institutional type, that is, the Community Education and Training Colleges (CET Colleges). Keywords: TVET, FET, adult education, Community Colleges, PALCs, CLCs, evaluation, policy, governance, finance 2016 Post school demographics 2010-2014 (Aitchison) 20160212 MCFF Presentation on Funding Framework 20160214 Estimates of National Expenditure (abridged) 20160331 MCFF Quartely Progress Report covering the period July-September 2015 20160505 DNA Volume 5 Financing options report 20160624 Input from Adrienne Bird to Ministerial Committee 20160701 Change management in TVET colleges 20161018 MCFF presentation

International Perspectives on Older Adult Education - South Africa Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Rule, P. Date: 2016 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Chapter 35 South Africa. Findsen, B, and Formosa, M. (Eds). International Perspectives on Older Adult Education, Lifelong Learning Book Series 22. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 399-410 Description: Provides some history of adult education for older people, developments post-apartheid (notably the constitutional right for all to adult basic education and the Kha Ri Gude Literacy campaign and work done by the South African Council for the Aged), details on the University of the Third Age, but concludes that "is clear is that the promise of South Africa’s Constitution regarding the right of everyone to basic and further education is, despite some promising developments, yet to be fulfilled for most older adults. Keywords: adult education, KRG

Proxies and perplexities: What is the current state of adult (il)literacy in South Africa? Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 2016 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2016. Proxies and perplexities: What is the current state of adult (il)literacy in South Africa? Journal of Education, Issue 66, pp. 111-138 Description: Comprehensive analysis of the available sources of South African literacy statistics that finds many inconsistencies among them and estimates that about 5 million people still have to be reached by literacy programmes Keywords: adult education, literacy, statistics, KRG

Country profiles of formal and nonformal adult education opportunities in literacy, numeracy and other skills: South Africa Author: Lolwana, P. Date: 2016 Reference: Lolwana, P. 2016. Country profiles of formal and nonformal adult education opportunities in literacy, numeracy and other skills: South Africa. Paris: UNESCO Description: Mainly looks at adult literacy propgramems, including the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, literacy, KRG, adult basic education, statistics

Low quality education as a poverty trap Author: Van Der Berg, S., Burger, C., Burger, R., De Vos, M., Du Rand, G., Gustafsson, M., Moses, E., Shepherd, D., Spaull, N., Taylor ,S., Van Broekhuizen, H., and Von Fintel, D. Date: 20160101 Reference: Van Der Berg, S., Burger, C., Burger, R., De Vos, M., Du Rand, G., Gustafsson, M., Moses, E., Shepherd, D., Spaull, N., Taylor ,S., Van Broekhuizen, H., and Von Fintel, D. 2016. Low quality education as a poverty trap. Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch Bureau for Economic Research Description: The weak quality of education received by most poor children in South Africa places them in permanent disadvantage relative to those attending the mainly more affluent and better performing schools. This document draws from a large number of studies undertaken for a major project and summarises this evidence, which illustrates that low quality schools act as a poverty trap. This has obvious implications for the need for adult education and notably for programmes developing proficiency in reading and writing English, along with computer literacy, which are vital determinants of employment and earnings prospects. Keywords: adult education, development, literacy, skills, statistics

White Paper for Post-School Education and Training: Building an Expanded, Effective and Integrated Post-school System. Overview of White Paper and Implementation Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160121 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. White Paper for Post-School Education and Training: Building an Expanded, Effective and Integrated Post-school System. Overview of White Paper and Implementation Priorities. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Presentation on the White Paper on Post-School Education and Training of 2014 Keywords: adult education, higher education, TVET, policy, plan

Community Colleges: the vision Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20160215 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2016. Community Colleges: the vision. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education Description: Presenation on the history and policy developments related to community colleges in South Africa Keywords: adult education, community colleges, history, policy, plan

Memorandum of Understanding betweeen the DHET and the Catholic Institute of Education Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160301 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Memorandum of Understanding betweeen the DHET and the Catholic Institute of Education. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Example of a MoU between the DHET and NGOs which had sites that could be potential community colleges at district level Keywords: community colleges, adult education, skills, policy, plans, training, NGOs, CLCs

Recognition of Prior learning Co-ordination Policy Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160331 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Recognition of Prior learning Co-ordination Policy. Government Gazette, Volume 381, Number 39876 Description: Describes a strategy, co-ordination mechanism, and steps towards, implementing RPL and outlines the responsibilities of the DHET, SAQA, the Quality Councils, and of education and training providers Keywords: RPL, policy, plan, NQF

The Social Profile of Youth, 2009–2014 Author: Statistics South Africa Date: 20160420 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. The Social Profile of Youth, 2009–2014. Pretoria: Statistics South AFrica Description: General information on youth that has useful statistics on the relationshsip between unemployment and education level Keywords: adult education, YALE

Khetha Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160426 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Khetha. Inside SAZA, Volume 6 Description: Khetha is a career guidance radio programme and Career Advice website (https://www.careerhelp.org.za) and helpline. Keywords: adult education, YALE, career guidance

Submission to the Presidential Commission on the feasibility of fee-free higher education and training Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201606 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Submission to the Presidential Commission on the feasibility of fee-free higher education and training. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: In this response to the 'feesmustfall' protests at historically white universities, the DHET's submission to the Commission describes the Community Education and Training sector states that "adequately funding the CET sector at this moment in time, to meet the constitutional obligation will require approximately R40 billion additional funding in the PSET" (and thus perhaps implicitly accepting that acceeding to the full demands for free university education would have a negative impact on the Community Education and Training sector funding (pp. 34-37). Keywords: higher education, PSET, community colleges, finance

CLING Women Facilitators: The lifeblood of Community Education in Freedom Park Author: Hukwe, T.H. Date: 201606 Reference: Hukwe, T.H. 2016. CLING Women Facilitators: The lifeblood of Community Education in Freedom Park. Post-School Education Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 12-13Johannesburg: Education Policy Consortium Description: Describes the role of six women facilitators in a township near Soweto running a literacy programme (Community Literacy and Numeracy Group (CLING)) Keywords: adult education, literacy, development

Education: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20160607 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2016. Education: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Pietermaritzburg: Office of the Premier, Human Resource Development Council [Presentation to a meeting of the KwaZulu-Natal Human Resource Development Council's technical task teams] Description: Presentation to a KwaZulu-Natal Human Resource Development Council technical task teams on the Education and Training context and the possibility of having community colleges Keywords: adult education, TVET, higher education, community colleges, PSET, literacy, development, policy

Overview of White Paper and Implementation Priorities Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160617 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Overview of White Paper and Implementation Priorities. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Presentation related to the DHET's work on the National Plan for Post-School Education and Training to implement the White Paper of 2014 Keywords: PSET, policy, plan

Regulations on the Conduct, Administration and Management of NASCA Assessment Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20160715 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Regulations on the Conduct, Administration and Management of NASCA Assessment. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Regulations for assessing the proposed National Senior Certificate for Adults Keywords: adult education, qualifications, certification, assessment, AFE

Research proposal Worker and Continuing Education in KwaZulu-Natal Author: Koen, M. Date: 20160719 Reference: Koen, M. 2016. Research proposal Worker and Continuing Education in KwaZulu-Natal. Durban: Workers College [Paper presented to a meeting of the Continuing and Worker Education Standing Committee/Task Team of the KwaZulu-Natal Human resource Develooment Council] Description: The proposal present the current context of worker education and proposes three research questions: 1. What makes up the practice of Adult Worker and community Education in KZN? 2. How does this contextual and institutional framework of Adult, Worker and Continuing Education, impact on the achievement of socioeconomic development goals in KZN? 3. What should be changed within Adult Worker and Community Education in KZN to better achieve socio economic development goals in KZN? It also discusses the conceptual terminology in these fields and argues for a policy framework "within which the competing interpretations and purposes of worker education can be accommodated on a sustainable basis. Keywords: worker education, KwaZulu-Natal, research. adult education, continuing education

Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning, Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and Assessment in Higher Education Author: Council for Higher education Date: 201608 Reference: Council for Higher Education. 2016. Policies on the Recognition of Prior Learning, Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and Assessment in Higher Education. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Gives details of policies and rules for RPL, Credit accumulation, and Assessment. The policy of transfer of credits from one qualification to another: "A maximum of 50% of the credits of a completed qualification may be transferred to another qualification. This practice seeks to protect the integrity of qualifications by ensuring that the exception does not become the norm." is unduly restrictive, particularly to adult part-time learners. Keywords: higher education, NQF, RPL, assessment, qualifications

Investigating efficacy in adult learning centres: a multi-case study Author: Rule, P. Daniels, D., Baloyi, G., and Chatty, V. Date: 201608 Reference: Rule, P. Daniels, D., Baloyi, G., and Chatty, V. 2016. Investigating efficacy in adult learning centres: a multi-case study. Pretoria: Umalusi Description: A multi-case study focused on the institutional efficacy of selected, exemplary adult education centres from a range of sectors in four provinces: Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Western Cape. The study came to very positive conclusions that that "the adult education centres are able to perform excellently and stand as beacons of hope within their communities, often in difficult circumstances. Certain key values that contribute to the efficacy of centres cut across the areas of governance, teaching and learning, and institutional and community relations. These include commitment, care, community, collaboration, core of instruction, and connected curriculum. Regarding governance, two key factors are visionary leadership and strong administrative systems. All the centres in the study had strong, visionary and committed leaders who had the ability to inspire others. All the centres functioned efficiently at the basic level of record-keeping and managing the relevant finances. Regarding teaching and learning, the presence of knowledgeable and committed educators was the key factor." Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, CLC, PALCs, research

Policy Overview of the Post-School Education and Training System Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20161004 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Policy Overview of the Post-School Education and Training System - Presentation to the Presidential Commission on Higher Education. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Outline of the current PSET system Keywords: higher education, TVET, community colleges, statistics, legislation, policy

National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20161113 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) (Revised 13 November 2016). Description: The document proposes a better integration of the skills development institutional landscape into the post-school system, and improved coordination of the skills levies so as to support education and training programmes aimed at preparing people for the world of work, as well as significant shifts to the intermediary institutions that support relationships between the post-school education and training system and the world of work, and the skills levy distribution model. The document has three sections. 1. The principles guiding the DHET’s approach. 2. A summary of the new SETA landscape. 3. An overview of the skills priorities and the implementation priorities and processes. Keywords: skills, training, development, policy, plan

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa - 2016 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201803 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2016. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa - 2016. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Statistics including those for Community Education and Training Colleges public and private Keywords: community colleges, skills, training, adult education

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2017

Open Learning Policy Framework for South African PSET Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20170118 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2017. Open Learning Policy Framework for South African PSET. Government Gazette, Number 40772 Description: Provides information on background, a conceptual framework, strategic intent, implementation and monitoring and evaluation, and funding Keywords: distance education, open learning, policy, plan, monitoring and evaluation, finance

National Qualifications Framework [diagram] Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201703 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2017. National Qualifications Framework [diagram]. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: NQF diagram Keywords: NQF, qualifications

Thinking about Teaching – The professional education of teachers and educators of adults Editor: Penny, A. Date: 201705 Reference: Penny, A. (Ed.). 2017. Thinking about Teaching – The professional education of teachers and educators of adults. [A festschrift in honour and appreciation of Professor Clive J. Millar] Description: This festschrift in honour of Clive Millar, the first Profesor of Adult Education in South Africa (at the University of Cape Town) contains a number of important papers by Millar himself on adult education as well as some reflections by others on his work. Foreword (Alan Penny) Innovation in teacher education Microteaching for the Education Student (Clive Millar (1974)) Assessment of the quality of evaluations of observed teaching ( Clive Millar (1975)) Curriculum improvement or social innovation? ( Clive Millar (1984)) A perspective on this work Learning how to teach: Curriculum innovation in teacher education (Alan Penny) A new curriculum for educators of adults The Diploma Course for Educators of Adults: a case for reconstruction? ( Clive Millar (1985)) Curriculum negotiation in professional adult education (Clive Millar (1986)) Curriculum evolution in university based adult education programmes (Clive Millar (1987)) Educating the educators of adults: two cheers for curriculum negotiation (Clive Millar (1989)) Critical reflection for educators of adults: Getting a grip on the scripts for professional action ( Clive Millar (1991)) The role of the adult educator: is there a professional identity in sight? ( Clive Millar (1994)) Perspectives on this work Adult education policy in South Africa: vision and reality (Robin Mackie) Who owns the curriculum? A response to the work of Clive Millar (Barry Hymer) Teaching student teachers to become researchers Why research in ‘real time’ matters (Clive Millar (2015)) Where to start: with theory or practice? (Clive Millar (2016) Becoming a researcher (Clive Millar (2016)) Perspectives on this work Research in “real time” at the Centre for Creative Education (Peter van Alphen) When practice meets theory: a letter to Clive (Beulah Reeler) Becoming a researcher: take a jump (Alexi Silverman) Becoming a researcher: the researcher-supervisor conversation (Leigh Moore) Afterword: personal reflections by colleagues and students Appreciation (Clive Millar) Keywords: adult education, policy, ideology, curriculum, research

GETCA: Subject statement. Life and Learning Curriculum statement Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201707 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2017. GETCA: Subject statement - Life and Learning Skills Curriculum statement. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Curriculum statement that states outcomes, recommended assessment methods and content topics Keywords: aduklt basic education, skills, curriculum, assessment

Lifelong Learning at the Centre: the National Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) system in South Africa Authors: Bolton, H., Samuels, J., Mofokeng, T., Akindolani, O., and Shapiro, Y. Date: 20170724 Reference: Bolton, H., Samuels, J., Mofokeng, T., Akindolani, O., and Shapiro, Y. 2017. Lifelong Learning at the Centre: the National Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) system in South Africa. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: Describes the context for RPL and how it is understood n post-apartheid South Africa, policy developments and practice, achievements, the use of RPL data in the National Learners’ Records Database (NLRD), and future prospects Keywords: RPL, lifelong learning, training, development, history

Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Higher Education and Training Author: Commission of Enquiry into Higher Education and Training Date: 20171113 Reference: Commission of Enquiry into Higher Education and Training. 2017. Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Higher Education and Training. Pretoria: Commission of Enquiry into Higher Education and Training Description: The Commission was set up as a result of the #Feesmustfall protests at the historically white universities in 2015 which demanded free-university education. It examined student fees and accommodation issues and whether only poor or all students should receive funding (and ways of widening access to university education) and where extra funding could come from. It made a number of recommendations including that there should be a move to free university education but notes that any financial decisons should take into account others sectors such as Early Childhood Development, TVET, and Community Education and Training ("The CET and TVET sectors particularly need attention as they are severely underfunded, and cannot perform at their current funding levels." (p. 542)). The Commission's recommendation on increasing fee-study at universities was largely implemented for poor and lower-middle class students, the warning about funding Community Education and Training (for the really poor), totally ignored. Keywords: higher education, finance, ideology, research, statistics

Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2017 Volume II: National and regional cases Author: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop Date: 2017 Reference: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). 2017. Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2017. Volume II: National and regional cases. Thessaloniki, Greece: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and UNESCO and UIL Description: The South African entry is on pages 505 to 509 Keywords: NQF, research, statistics

Community Colleges - 2017

Community College documents - 2017 Author: As ascribed Date: 2017 Reference: As ascribed. 2019. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration (and had not happened between 2011 and 2017). From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next half decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, KwaZulu-Natal 2017 DHET Time table norms and standards for CET colleges 201702 DHET First Final Draft for CET Colleges Staffing Norms version 1 20170104 DHET Draft national policy on students support services for Community Education and Training 20170121 DHET National Improvement Plan for Teaching and Learning for CET 20170207 Draft National Policy on Verification of Enrolments and Staff in the CETCs 20170303 CET Headcount; for Final SNE Allocation for 2017-18 20170303 CET Headcount for Final SNE Allocation for 2017-18 Outstanding declarations 20170403 Email from Lin helm to Sandra Land re draft report 20170405 DHET Presentation CET Post Provisioning Norms 20170522 DHET National policy on curriculum development and implementation in community colleges 20170605 DHET Inputs on Funding Formula Framework for CET 20170625 Email from Shirley Walters to Sandra Land re draft report 20170706 Towards a funding formula for the Community Colleges 20170720 Draft national policy students and community support services for CET colleges for public comments 201709 Land and Aitchison The ideal institutional model for community colleges in South Africa 201709 Land and Aitchison Disussion on CETCs Executive summary and recommendations 20170922 DHET Draft National Policy on Annual Reporting for CET 20171026 Land Presentation to KZN HRDC technical working group The ideal model for CCs 20171207 DHET TOR Technical Assistance to conduct Capacity Building Workshops for CET Colleges

Kha Ri Gude - 2017

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2017 Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2017 Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2017. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016. The year 2016 was the last year of full operations with some closing out work done in 2017. A final Kha Ri Gude Close Out Report was completed in September 2020. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa 20170208 DBE KRG Extension of Ramarumo contract 20170314 KRG report to Portfolio Committee presentation 201707 Full set of SAQA KRG verification reports for cohorts 2008-2016 20171113 McKay Through the Eye of a Fly Action Research as a Support for the SA National Literacy Campaign 201712 SAQA report on KRG LAP verification 2016/2017 final

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2017

Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworksfor Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centre documents - 2017 Author: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres Date: 2017 Reference: Ministerial Committee to review the Funding Frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres. 2016. Title. Pretoria: Department of HigherEducation and Training Description: The Ministerial Committee was set up in mid-2014 to revise the Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (VCET) funding norms which are the national Norms and Standards for Funding Further Education and Training Colleges (now renamed Technical and Vocational Education and Training Colleges) as well as the national Norms and Standards for Funding Adults Learning Centres (the PALCs,in 2015 renamed CLCs). The original duration of the committee was to be twelve months but the final report was only submitted in July 2017. The main purposes of the Ministerial Committee was to review the current funding framework for TVET Colleges to ensure effectiveness of the funding framework in enabling these Colleges to play a key role in producing a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path and align the norms and funding standards of the OALCs to the new proposed institutional type, that is, the Community Education and Training Colleges (CET Colleges). Keywords: TVET, FET, adult education, Community Colleges, PALCs, CLCs, evaluation, policy, governance, finance 20170605 DHET Inputs on Funding Formula Framework for CET 20170706 MCFF Towards a funding formula for the Community Colleges 20170707 MCFF Short Report Final 20170708 MCFF Final Information Report on Funding of TVET and Community Colleges

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training - 2017

Author: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2017 Reference: National Plan for Post-School Education and Training . 2015. Title. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: In 2015 the The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) commenced a process to develop a National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (NP-PSET) for the period 2017 to 2030 to give effect to the White Paper on Post-school Education and Training of 2014. A co-ordination team was set up to manage three core Task Teams: Higher education and training, Technical and Vocational education and training, and Community Education and Training. The latter team was chaired by Peliwe Lolwana. A draft plan was finalised in 2019 but the finally published plan (for the years 2021 to 2030) only came out in October 2021. Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, CLCs, monitoring and evaluation 20170108 NPPSET Information Policy call for comment 20170117 NPPSET CET TT Report for January Joint TT Meeting 20170118 NPPSET CET TT Draft agenda 20170118 NPPSET CET TT Draft minutes 20170118 NPPSET CET TT Updated CET governance section for discussion 18 January 2017 20170123 NPPSET CET TT Student and community support initiatives (Aitchison) 201706 NPPSET Draft PSET plan (comments from FP, YDS and JJWA) 20170802 Further comment from Aitchison on governance and CETACs 20171123 NPPSET Draft National plan for PSET 20171204 NPPSET Submission of Comments on Draft Information Policy (Aitchison)

Towards CONFINTEA VII - 2017

Description:The International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) takes place every twelve years and is organised by UNESCO's Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL). Normally there is a Mid-Term Review between these conferences to look at progress since the previous one (in this case the 6th held in Belém, Brazil in 2009) and preparing for the next (held in 2022 in Morocco). The CONFINTEA VI  Mid-Term Review, held in Suwon, Republic of Korea, in October 2017, took stock of progress made by Member States in the past eight  years. Keywords: lifelong learning, adult education, literacy, development, reserach, monitoring and evaluation 201710 Mid-Term Review Aitchison JJW Plenary Session presentation on Sub Saharan Africa 20171024 Sub Saharan Africa Regional report (Aitchison) 201710 Suwon-Osan CONFINTEA VI Mid-Term Review Statement - The power of adult learning and education: A vision towards 2030 201710 Towards Confintea VII

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2018

Not grasping the nettle: Dilemmas in creating and funding a new institutional environment for adult, community, and technical and vocational education and training institutions Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2018 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2018. Not grasping the nettle: Dilemmas in creating and funding a new institutional environment for adult, community, and technical and vocational education and training institutions. Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2018, pp. 1-12 Description: Outlines the failure to construct a viable adult and community education system in South Africa (in spite of constitutional guarantees, policy promises, initial enthusiasm for adult basic education and the well run Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign) and evaluates, with some skepticism, the likelihood of the recommendations of the Report of the Commission of inquiry into Higher education and training of 2017 making an impact Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, skills, implementation, legislation, higher education, KRG, history

Implementation Evaluation of the National Qualifications Framework Act 67 of 2008 Authors: DNA Economics, Mzabalazo Advisory Services, and Social Surveys Africa Date: 2018 Reference: DNA Economics, Mzabalazo Advisory Services, and Social Surveys Africa. 2018. Implementation Evaluation of the National Qualifications Framework Act 67 of 2008. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: An examination of the implementation of the NQF Act of 2008 from 2009 to 2016, including its associated policies and regulations, relative to its goals and objectives, that identifies the successes and challenges in the implementation of the Act and offers 17 recommendations (with many sub-recommendations regarding improvements to the implementation of Act in the future Keywords: NQF, standards, qualifications, research, policy, implementation, plan, monitoring and evaluation, TVET, RPL

Qualification Profile of Lecturers Employed in Public Community Education and Training Colleges Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 2018 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2018. Qualification Profile of Lecturers Employed in Public Community Education and Training Colleges. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: A needs analysis for the development of qualifications aligned to the Policy on Minimum Requirement for Programmes Leading to Qualifications for Educators and Lecturers in Adult Community Education and Training (DHET, 2015) by determining the current qualifications staus of the existing staff. A seemingly identical version of the report was published in 2019. Keywords: community colleges, statistics, research, policy, practitioners, teachers, trainers, HRD, professional education

Are we country of cognitive genocide? Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20180226 Reference: Aitchison, J,J.W. 2018. Are we country of cognitive genocide? The Conversation Description: The full version of an article, South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe, published in The Conversation on 26 February 2018 Keywords: literacy, reading, universities, practitioners

Draft Chapter on the 25 Year Review Report on Service delivery performance - CET Colleges Author: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Date: 20180711 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2018. Draft Chapter on the 25 Year Review Report on Service delivery performance - CET Colleges. Pretoria: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Description: A generally positive review of service delivery but little critique (apart from the obvious one of underfunding Keywords: adult education, community colleges, adult basic education, policy, finance, practitioners, HRD, development, KRG , qualifications, statistics, finance

Department of Higher Education and Training Annual Report 2017/18 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201809 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2018. Annual Report 2017/18. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Annual Report which as some information on adult education and the Community Education and Training Colleges scattered through its pages (see pp. 12, 18-19, 21, 27-28, 31, 43, 45, 105, 107-108, 123, 129, 172, 178) Keywords: adult education, community colleges, adult basic education, policy, finance, practitioners, HRD

A justification for the IEB’s commitment to adult education Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Buroughs, E. Date: 20181222 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Buroughs, E.. 2018. A justification for the IEB’s commitment to adult education. Johannesburg: Independant Examinations Board Description: Argues for the continued support of Adult basic education and Adult Further Education assessment by this independant institution and more generally for support for adult education on the basis of rights, development, and employment creation and advancement Keywords: adult basic education, adult further education, assessment, NGOs, policy. development, qualifications

Community Colleges - 2018

Community College documents - 2018 Author: As ascribed Date: 2018 Reference: As ascribed. 2019. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration (and had not happened between 2011 and 2018). From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next half decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 2018 DHET Community Lecturer Qualification Profile Report 20180711 Draft Chapter on the 25 Year Review of Service Delivery Report for the CET sector 20181116 Land Presentation What the new Community College syetem could achieve for KZN HRDC 20181124 Land and Mbhamali Presentation on Exclusion by Choice? 20181124 Rivombo Presentation Access, barriers and Success

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training - 2018

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training documents - 2018 Author: As ascribed Date: 2018 Reference: As ascribed. 2018. Title. Place: Publisher Description: In late 2015 the Department of Higher Education and Training set up a process to develop a National Plan for Post-School Education and Training for the period 2017 to 2030. A Co-ordination team was appointed and three Task Teams: for Higher education, Technical and Vocational Eduaction and Training, and for Community Education and Training. The Community Education and Training Task team was led by Peliwe Lolwana. A draft Plan was completed in November 2019 and the Final National Plan for Post-School Education and Training 2021-2030 published in October 2021. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics 20180502 NPPSET Consolidated Feedback on Consultation Draft

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2019

Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project. Review of the Project 2019 Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2019 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2019. Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project. Review of the Project 2019. Sandton: Volkswagon Community Trust Description: A review of the Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project run in the community adjacent to its Uitenhage plant that deals mainly with literacy development among schoolchildren but has an important analysis of the basics of learning to read and why schools and projects are failing to develop proficient readers (whicxh eventually becaome an adult education problem) Keywords: literacy, reading, research, assessment

The struggle of adult educators in South Africa continues Authors: Baatjes, I. and Baatjes, B. Date: 2019 Reference: Baatjes, I. and Baatjes, B. 2019. The struggle of adult educators in South Africa continues. Adult Education and Development, Number 86, pp. 46-60 Description: Professionalisation of adult educators in South Africa has a relatively short history dating back to the mid-1990s. In the South African context, professionalisation is integral to the formalisation of adult education which has taken root in post-apartheid South Africa. Formal qualifications such as certificates, diplomas and degrees, based on national standards registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), are key elements of the professionalisation discourse. This article reflects on the professionalisation process in South Africa, and identifies the struggles and limitations which it has entailed. Keywords: adult education, practitioners, profesional develoopment, NQF, qualifications, certification, history

Learning in the mother tongue: examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Authors: Hanemann, U. and McKay, V.I. Date: 2019 Reference: Hanemann, U. and McKay, V.I. 2019. Learning in the mother tongue: examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign. International Review of Education/Journal of Lifelong learning, Volune 65, pp. 351-387 Description: This is an analysis of the reading results of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign's 2011 cohort of a total of 485,941 participants aimed at identifying variations between the learners’ achievements across the eleven official South African languages and their socio-economic and participation profiles. In addition these findings were matched against local language experts' assessment of the level of difficulty with regard to literacy learning of each of the languages. The authors found that good quality learning material alone cannot make up for inexperienced and under-trained educators and poor literate environments and contend that future literacy programmes will have to take existing hierarchies and inequalities among language groups into account and devise differentiated strategies to achieve parity of learning. Keywords: literacy, KRG, language, reading, research

Communities in Action: The Participation of Communities in Two South African Literacy Campaigns Author: MacKay, V.I. Date: 2019 Reference: MacKay, V.I. 2019. Communities in Action: The Participation of Communities in Two South African Literacy Campaigns. In: I. Eloff (Ed.)., Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 23- 44 Description: Description of the South African Literacy Initiative and the Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign and their contribution to the enhancement of the quality of life of vulnerable communities and an argument that the social capital and the web of interconnections emerging from the social movement context of the literacy campaigns provided a network of agency and resilience to the desperateness faced by communities. Keywords: commmunity, development, literacy, KRG

Decent Skills for Inclusive Economic Growth (draft) Author: Date: 201902 Reference: . 2019. Chapter 6. Decent Skills for Inclusive Economic Growth (draft). Description: A detailed analysis of the prospects for South Africa (with some comments from John Aitchison on some educational matters) Keywords: development, skills, adult education, community education, KRG

National Plan for Post-School Education and Training: 2019-2023 Authors: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20190321 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. National Plan for Post-School Education and Training: 2019-2030. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: This National Plan for Post-School Education and Training (NPPSET) sets out a roadmap for the implementation of the policy vision of the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training. The NPPSET sets out key system goals, objectives, outcomes and strategies aimed at achieving an integrated, coordinated, expanded, responsive, cooperative, quality, efficient and successful post-school education and training system over the period 2019/2020 to 2029/2030. Many of the outcomes seem highly aspirational and the targets for TVET College (2.5 million) and Community College (1 million) enrolments unrealistic and the strategies for funding these expansions feeble. Keywords: PSET, adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, community colleges, CLCs, finance

Guguletu T. Ndebele Author: The NGO Whisperer Date: 201907 Reference: The NGO Whisperer. 2019. Guguletu T. Ndebele. The NGO Whisperer Description: A nice piece of puffery on Gugu Ndebele, previously of the Department of Education and of the Department of Higher Education and Training Keywords: puffery

National Skills Development Plan Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20190307 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. National Skills Development Plan. Government gazette, Number 43390 Description: Outline of the plan with some cursory attention to Community Colleges (pp. 6, 14-15) and the unrealistic goal of 1 million learners by 2030 Keywords: RPL, NQF, community colleges, policy, plan

National Policy and Criteria for the Implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (Amended in March 2019) Author: South African Qualifications Authority Date: 20190319 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2019. National Policy and Criteria for the Implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (Amended in March 2019). Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority Description: The purpose of the amended National Policy and Criteria for the Implementation of RPL is to embed further the RPL in the national education and training agenda, and ensure clarity and consistency regarding the contexts, roles and responsibilities of all RPL role-players. Keywords: RPL, NQF, qualifications, standards

The Community Education and Training College System: National Plan for the Implementation of the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training System Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 201908 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. The Community Education and Training College System: National Plan for the Implementation of the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training System. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: A set of nine proposals that are mainly aspirational with little detail as to how actual plans would work Keywords: community colleges, policy, plan, CLCs, adult education, community, skills, practitioners, finance, statistics

Secured, not connected: South Africa’s Adult Education system Authors: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Land, S.J. Date: 201912 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Land, S.J. 2019. Secured, not connected: South Africa’s Adult Education system. Journal of Education, Issue 77, pp. 138-155 Description: This paper tracks the history of the adult education system through its historical blunders and shortcomings that ends with the hope of the far-reaching benefits inherent in government’s new plan for the post school system. The authors argue that there have been decades of neglect, or, at best, token support for the country’s adult education system, and they look at how the system could be revitalised, both in terms of minimal requirements for immediate basic improvement as well as for a more radical and forward looking transformation of the system. The new 2019 state plan for the Community Education and Training College System includes long needed major overhauls that must be made if adults’ right to effective and relevant education is to be finally realised. Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, legislation, statistics, history, community colleges, PALCs, CLCs

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 202103 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2021. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Has a section (pp. 49-58) on Community Education and Training Colleges though there are several caveats made about its accuracy and that policy targets were not met Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, statistics, educators, assessment, curriculum

Tables for Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019 Author: Department of Higher Education and Training Date: 20210825 Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2021. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training Description: Statistics in a Excel file for the entire Post School system Keywords: TVET, Community colleges, universities, statistics, educators, assessment, curriculum

Community Colleges - 2019

Community College documents - 2019 Author: As ascribed Date: 2019 Reference: As ascribed. 2019. Title. Place: Publisher Description: From 2011 onwards a discourse using the terms "community education (and training)" and "community education (and training) colleges" gradually replaced that of adult education or adult basic education and training (at least as far as the state policy on the system of state adult education provision was concerned). To what extent the change in terminology was echoed by a change in the nature and functioning of the institutional bodies providing adult education is a matter for historical exploration (and had not happened between 2011 and 2019). From now on "Community College documents" are essentially those relating to the state adult education system and provision, even though for more than the next half decade there were no actual institutions that can really be described as community colleges. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, community, community colleges, CLCs, PALCs, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, statistics, Gauteng 2019 Community Lecturer Qualification Profile Report 2019 DHET National Plan_CET College System_Final 2019 OECD CETC in South Africa, Getting Skills Right 2019 W&RSETA The Role of Community Education and Training Colleges in lncreasing Employability 20190213 Community College Administrator Program with Florida State University 20190307 NSDP gazetted 20190412 Draft Funding Norms_CET Colleges Government Gazette no 42396 20190724 CET College Functionality assessment tool 20190800 National Plan_CET College System_Final 20191008 Standard Operating Procedure for the Verification of student Enrolment in the CETC

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