SAQA Deliverables

SAQA has the following deliverables that are key to implementing the NQF:

• Develop a system of collaboration to guide the mutual relations of SAQA and the QCs, and resolve disputes regarding the QCs
• In agreement with the QCs develop the content of level descriptors for each level of the NQF. The agreed level descriptors must be published in the Gazette and should be kept current and appropriate
• Develop and implement policy and criteria, after consultation with the QCs, for the development, registration and publication of qualifications and part-qualifications. SAQA must also register a qualification or part qualification that is recommended by a QC if it meets the relevant criteria. It must develop policy and criteria, after consultation with the QCs, for assessment, recognition of prior learning and credit accumulation and transfer
• Develop and implement policy and criteria for recognising a professional body and registering a professional designation for the purposes of the NQF Act, after consultation with statutory and non-statutory bodies of expert practitioners in occupational fields and with the QCs. SAQA must also recognise a professional body and register its professional designation if the stipulated criteria have been met
• SAQA must collaborate with its international counterparts on all matters of mutual interest concerning qualifications, and inform the QCs and other interested parties about international practice in the development and management of qualifications frameworks
• SAQA must conduct or commission investigations on issues of importance to the develoment and implementation of the NQF, including periodic studies of the impact of the NQF on South African education, training and employment. These findings must be published
• SAQA must maintain a National Learners' Records Database comprising registers of national qualifications, part-qualifications, learner achievements, recognised professional bodies, professional designations and associated information
• SAQA must provide an evaluation and advisory service for foreign qualifications
• SAQA must also inform the public about the NQF

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