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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAININGCONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT, 2006 (ACT NO. 16 OF 2006)NATIONAL POLICY ON COMMUNITY COLLEGESI,Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, Minister of HIGHER EDUCATION and Training, herebydetermine National Policy on Community Colleges in terms of section 41B (4) of the ContinuingEducation and Training Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006) and publish the policy as set out in theSchedule BE Nzimande, MPMinister of HIGHER EDUCATION and TrainingDate:IG]tit(This gazette is also available free online at , 3 JULIE 2015No. 389249 GOVERNMENTNOTICESGOEWERMENTSKENNISGEWING SDEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAININGDEPARTEMENT VAN H ER ONDERWYS EN OPLEIDINGNo.)

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1 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAININGCONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT, 2006 (ACT NO. 16 OF 2006)NATIONAL POLICY ON COMMUNITY COLLEGESI,Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, Minister of HIGHER EDUCATION and Training, herebydetermine National Policy on Community Colleges in terms of section 41B (4) of the ContinuingEducation and Training Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006) and publish the policy as set out in theSchedule BE Nzimande, MPMinister of HIGHER EDUCATION and TrainingDate:IG]tit(This gazette is also available free online at , 3 JULIE 2015No. 389249 GOVERNMENTNOTICESGOEWERMENTSKENNISGEWING SDEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAININGDEPARTEMENT VAN H ER ONDERWYS EN OPLEIDINGNo.)

2 5693 July 2015higher EDUCATION & trainingDepartment: HIGHER EDUCATION and TrainingREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICANATIONAL POLICY ON COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND TRAININGCOLLEGESAPRIL 2015 This gazette is also available free online at 38924 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3 JULY 2015 Table of ContentsACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS2 SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION3 SECTION 2: DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION3 SECTION 3: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT4 SECTION 4: PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITYEDUCATION AND TRAINING COLLEGES8 SECTION 5: LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY CONTEXT9 SECTION 6: PURPOSE OF THE POLICY9 SECTION 7: APPLICATION10 SECTION 8: ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND TRAININGCOLLEGE10 SECTION 9: PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND TRAININGCOLLEGES10 SECTION 10: MERGER OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND TRAINING COLLEGES11 SECTION 11: GOVERNANCE12 SECTION 12: MANAGEMENT12 SECTION 13: EMPLOYMENT OF STAFF13 SECTION 14: FUNDING FRAMEWORK14 SECTION 15: PROGRAMMES AND QUALIFICATION OFFERINGS14 SECTION 16: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND TRAININGCOLLEGES16 SECTION 17: QUALITY ASSURANCE16 SECTION 18: MONITORING AND EVALUATION17 SECTION 19: COMMENCEMENT1711 PageThis gazette is also available free online at , 3 JULIE 2015No.

3 3892411 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONSABETA dult Basic EDUCATION and TrainingAETA dult EDUCATION and TrainingCETCAC Community EDUCATION and Training College Administrative CentreCBOC ommunity -Based OrganisationCLCC ommunity Learning CentreCSOC ivil Society OrganisationDHETD epartment of HIGHER EDUCATION and TrainingDoEDepartment of EducationDoLDepartment of LabourECDE arly Childhood DevelopmentEMESE ducation Management Information SystemETDPE ducation Training and Development PracticesFBOF aith Based OrganisationFETCF urther EDUCATION and Training CollegesFETF urther EDUCATION and TrainingGETCG eneral EDUCATION and Training CertificateHETH igher EDUCATION and TrainingHuman Resources DevelopmentIndependent Examinations BoardNational Development PlanNon -Governmental OrganisationNon -Profit OrganisationNational Qualifications FrameworkNational Skills Development StrategyPublic Adult Learning CentreProvincial EDUCATION DepartmentSouth African Qualifications AuthoritySector EDUCATION and Training AuthorityIEBNDPNGONPONQFNSDSPALCPEDSAQAS ETATVETT echnical and Vocational EDUCATION and Training2aThis gazette is also available free online at 38924 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3 JULY 2015 SECTION 1.

4 Administration of the Adult EDUCATION and Training Act, 2000 (Act of2000) and the Continuing EDUCATION and Training Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006) wastransferred to the Minister of HIGHER EDUCATION and Training, through of 2009 which was published in Government Gazette of 1 July legislative responsibility for the Adult EDUCATION and Training (AET) sector wastransferred to the Minister of HIGHER EDUCATION and Training (DHET) through theHigher EDUCATION and Training Amendment Laws Act,2010 ( Act of 2010). ,2006intendstoestablishCommunity EDUCATION and Training Colleges (CETCs) as another institutional typewithin the Post -School EDUCATION and Training implications of the CET Act, 2006 are to repeal the Adult Basic EDUCATION andTraining Act, 2000.

5 This implies that the CET Act, 2006 will be the legislationgoverning CETCs and Community Learning Centres (CLCs). National Policy on Community EDUCATION and Training Colleges serves as annitial process to establish the overarching institutional policy framework for theestablishment of policy acts as a transitory policy framework for the migration of the function ofAET sector from the Provincial Departments of EDUCATION (PEDs) to the DHET witheffect from 01 April 2015. This migration would affect all learners and personnel andother resources in the 2: DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY is defined as being located within and contributing to local needs and localdevelopment, building social agency and social cohesion (Ministerial Task Team(Report: 2012).)

6 3 IPagThis gazette is also available free online at , 3 JULIE 2015No. focus on community in the CETCs and CLCs is as much a matter of location (easyaccess for youths and adults) as it is a matter of orientation, locating this sphere of adultand youth EDUCATION in communities with strong links to communities in their variedforms, to NGOs and CBOs, to local government and the local economy and 3: BACKGROUND AND is an essential component of reconstruction, development and transformationof any society. Post 1994 the South African integrated EDUCATION system has played asignificant role in accelerating racial integration through universal access to primaryand increasingly secondary EDUCATION , the expansion of early childhood developmentand increased access to tertiary the achievements in EDUCATION over thefirst twenty years ofdemocracy, it is observed that the system still produces and reproduces inequalitiesthrough gender, class and racial divide.

7 These inequalities continue to undermine thevision of the South African Constitution of a prosperous, democratic, non -sexist, non -racist and equal challenges of inequalities based on gender, class, race, disability, geographiclocation, age and health status persist with regard to access to educational opportunitiesin the adult EDUCATION and training provision of EDUCATION and training alone is not sufficient to significantly reducethese inequalities but the commitment to establish pro -poor institutional structuralframeworks and funding modalities are key elements that can assist to accelerate theattainment of the vision of the National Development Plan's (NDP) 2030 agenda that ofan egalitarian and prosperous to the Ministerial Task Team Report on Community EDUCATION andTraining Centres (CETCs)

8 2012, the two disadvantaged groups are adults and youngpeople who are outside of the formal economy and formal workplaces, who are not ineducational institutions, who have few opportunities for access to first or second -chance learning and lifelong P agThis gazette is also available free online at 38924 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3 JULY groups include close to 12 million adults with less than grade 9 EDUCATION in2007; including the nearly 3 million young people not in employment or in educationand training (NEETs) between the ages of 18 -24 years who are also in need ofeducation and training to EDUCATION and training must be made available through viable institutions tothe employed and unemployed, young and old to encourage an economically activepopulation and community White Paper for Post -School EDUCATION and Training states that, "The educationand training system must find ways to cater for the needs of the millions of adults andyouth who are unemployed, poorly educated and not studying.

9 The expansion of theuniversity and college systems will make an important difference, but will not besufficient to meet all the needs. In any case, they are not designed for this. There aremany who would not qualify to enter a university or Technical and VocationalEducation and Training (TVET) colleges ". then concludes that, "A new type of institution has to be built and supported; one thatcan offer a diverse range of possibilities to people for whom vocational and technicalcolleges and universities are not possible ". Prior to the Function Shift of AET on 1 April 2015, the state provided AET through itsPEDs. The PEDs operated Public Adult Learning Centres (PALCs), most of which arelocated in schools and they provide institutional learning to adults on a part -time terms of the Further EDUCATION and Training Amendment Act, 2013 (Act of2013), PALCs have been transferred to the control of the Further to PALCs, there are also private adult learning centres run by faith -basedorganisations (FBOs), non -governmental organizations (NGOs) and community -basedorganisations (CBOs) with a diverse range of offerings, which may include formalprovisioning of the General EDUCATION and Training Certificate (GETC).

10 ABET atNational Qualifications Framework (NQF) level In January 2014, the Minister of HIGHER EDUCATION and Training launched the WhitePaper for Post -School EDUCATION and Training system in which key challenges facingSouth African HIGHER EDUCATION and training were identified. The White Paperarticulates many weaknesses with regard to the current provisioning of AET due to,5 IPaThis gazette is also available free online at , 3 JULIE 2015No. 3892415among other things, insufficient resources, inadequate staffing, weak infrastructure andpoor , the White Paper notes that, "Despite their weaknesses, the PALCs arecurrently the only public institutions with a wide distribution around the country andwhich provide for adults and post -school youth who a


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