SAQA (SOUTH AFRICA QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY )GLOSSARY

 

INTRODUCTION

 

SAQA stands for the South African Qualifications Authority. It was instituted by the SAQA Act, Act No. 58 of 1995 and is intended to supervise the setting up of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). SAQA has the human resources to set up the NQF, which is just a database

 

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• Accreditation
• Applied competence
• Articulation
• Assessment Criteria
• Assessor
• Assumption of learning already in place
• Credits
• Development
• Education and Training Quality Assurance Body (ETQA)
• Fields/Learning Areas and Sub-fields
• Integrated assessment
• Level Descriptors
• Lifelong Learning
• Module
• National Standards Bodies (NSB)
• Norms and Standards for Educators
• National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
• Notional hours of learning
• Critical cross-field education and training outcomes
• Specific outcomes
• Exit level outcomes of significance
• Learning outcomes, specific outcomes and critical outcomes
• Portability
• Programme
• Qualification
• Range Statement
• Recognition of Prior Learning
• Rules of Combination
• SAQA Guidelines for Submission of Qualifications
• Whole Qualification Format
• Unit Standard Format
• Transfer of Training
• Trainer/ Instructor
• On-the-job-training
• Unit standards
• Assessment Criteria
• Assumptions of learning already in place
• Credits: Core, Fundamental and Elective
• Level Descriptors
• Outcomes
• Learning outcomes, specific outcomes and critical outcomes
• Range Statements
• Unit Standards
• Example of a Unit Standard
• Accreditation process (including moderation) for the Unit Standard
• Critical cross-field outcomes

 

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