Meg Pahad

Topic: Systems perspective - Quality Assurance Framework for the Occupations
Company: GTZ Consultant, Quality Council for Trade and Occupations task team, Department of Labour

Meg Pahad is a specialist in educational assessment and quality assurance. She worked at the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) from 1992 for eight years, setting up its assessor training division. In 1996 she completed an M.Ed at the University of Witwatersrand on The need for a new assessment paradigm in the context of the transformation of education and training in South Africa. In 1994 she wrote the prescribed assessment textbook for Wits University Further Diploma in Education, entitled Approaches to Assessment and Education.

As part of the management of the IEB Meg participated in several national policy and curriculum development committees. She was given responsibility by the IEB for the Secretariat of the nation Early Childhood Development Projects. She also established a pilot GETC assessment which was later developed into a national IEB/DoE projects.

During this period, Meg participated in three ministerial committees:  the Ministerial Committee for Development Work on the national Qualifications framework (1995 -96), the Ministerial Committee to Investigate the Senior Certificate Examination (1998) and the Ministerial Committee to Investigate and advised on a single examination system for NQF levels 1-4 (2002). She chaired the DoE Task team to investigate the establishment of an ETQA for General and Further Education and Training (1999)
In 2000 Meg was contracted by education and training sector stakeholders to establish the ETQA division of the ETDP SETA. From 2002 – 2004 Meg carried out quality assurance design work for Umalusi, funded the GTZ.

During 2003 and 2004 her company was awarded contracts to establish the quality assurance systems of the ETQA’s of the LGWSETA and POSLEC (now LGSETA and SASSETA). She also worked as part of Singizi’s team to deliver contracts concluded with HWSETA and CHSETA, in which she focused on the quality assurance of learner achievements and RPL respectively.
From 2002 – 2005 she was the project manager of the national Assessor Training Project, which targets training for assessors and mentors in leaderships, and was funded by the DoL and the European Union. In 2003 – 4 Meg wrote the assessment and learning programme module for the CIDA – funded NQF Support Link consortium which produced e-learning (and print - based) materials for SAQA.
In 2004 she wrote the Assessment Design programme for Project Literacy, and designed the assessments for the new Community Development Worker leadership,  (under contract form ETU) as well as those for two programmes for internal training for staff at the Department of labour (contracted by Resolve). In 2005 and 2006 she designed the assessment component of two major SAMDI (South African Management Development Institute) initiatives. In 2006 she was also a consultant to Edcon in the design of learning materials for the training of JET store managers. Meg also developed the Assessment Policy for Umsobomvo Youth Fund’s training section in 2006.

Meg is currently  (2006 - 7) contracted by GTZ to support the Dol in the development of a quality assurance system for the Quality council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO).