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MINISTERIAL TASK TEAM ON A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL) Final report incorporating a proposal for the NATIONAL implementation strategy January 2013 Contents Acronyms .. i Chapter 1: Introduction .. 1 Context and background: Broad overview .. 1 Pre-1994 RPL policy and research .. 1 Post-1994 policy and implementation developments .. 2 Developments from 2007 .. 3 Terms of reference and composition of the task team .. 6 Approach of the task team .. 7 Submission and engagements .. 8 Parameters of the literature, existing research, and document and policy review.

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1 MINISTERIAL TASK TEAM ON A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL) Final report incorporating a proposal for the NATIONAL implementation strategy January 2013 Contents Acronyms .. i Chapter 1: Introduction .. 1 Context and background: Broad overview .. 1 Pre-1994 RPL policy and research .. 1 Post-1994 policy and implementation developments .. 2 Developments from 2007 .. 3 Terms of reference and composition of the task team .. 6 Approach of the task team .. 7 Submission and engagements .. 8 Parameters of the literature, existing research, and document and policy review.

2 9 Primary research undertaken for the RPL MTT process .. 9 Vision for RPL implementation .. 10 Terminology and definitions .. 11 Outline of the report .. 13 Chapter 2: Literature review: RPL models, practices and research .. 14 Review of international good practice in terms of country practices overview .. 14 Status of RPL in NATIONAL education and training systems, legislative and policy frameworks, overall approaches and key drivers .. 14 Status of the RPL centres, roles in mainstreaming RPL, approaches to resources and funding .. 15 Scope, scale and type of RPL in different sectors (including practitioner identity and development).

3 16 Review of RPL research and practice in South Africa .. 18 Early RPL pilot projects: 1997 2003 .. 18 Very little RPL in further education and training .. 20 Higher education RPL literature .. 21 RPL in trades, occupational sectors and workplaces .. 25 The SAQA UWC RPL research project .. 26 Low take-up, so .. 26 Key themes and implications emerging from the literature, research, document and policy process review .. 27 Approaches to RPL: Integrated versus differentiated .. 27 RPL centres and delivery .. 28 Guidance and counselling .. 29 Quality assurance.

4 29 Scope and form of RPL .. 29 Other points to consider .. 30 Recommendations for the South African context .. 31 Chapter 3: Consultations with key NATIONAL stakeholders, and commissioned research into SETA RPL practices .. 32 Consultations with key NATIONAL stakeholders .. 32 Research into RPL practices in SETAs .. 36 RPL policy and its implementation .. 36 RPL policy .. 36 Status of RPL implementation .. 37 Number of qualifications and unit standards awarded through 37 Financial support to RPL processes .. 38 Systemic problems and obstacles in RPL implementation.

5 39 Recommendations by SETA ETQAs for future RPL implementation .. 41 Recommendations for the immediate future .. 41 Recommendations for the medium term .. 41 Recommendations for the long 42 Key issues .. 42 Chapter 4: Resourcing and funding RPL .. 44 Funding approaches to RPL in South Africa .. 45 Partnerships .. 47 Assessment centres .. 49 Review of RPL funding .. 50 Proposed funding models for South Africa .. 54 Funding options for South Africa .. 55 Model 1 Wholly state-funded .. 55 Model 2 State and employer funding .. 55 Model 3 State and employer funding with student fees.

6 56 Role of donors .. 56 Chapter 5: International and local legislative and policy review .. 57 International case study of RPL legislation: France .. 57 Introduction .. 57 The French legislative system .. 58 The laws are preceded by collaborative preparatory work .. 58 Number of participants .. 59 Funding and costs .. 60 Options for South Africa .. 61 Review of South African policy and legislation that currently impact on RPL implementation .. 62 Introduction .. 62 Review of relevant legislation .. 63 The Constitution .. 63 A consideration of relevant white papers.

7 63 The NQF Act .. 67 The General and Further Education and Training Qualifications Act .. 68 The Skills Development Act .. 68 The Higher Education Act .. 69 Background to the 50% residency clause in higher education .. 70 Testing the 50% residency clause in higher education .. 72 Current South African policy, and related contextual shifts that may impact on RPL .. 74 The HRD Strategy, the NATIONAL Planning Commission Report and the NATIONAL Skills Development Strategy III, and the Green Paper for Post-school Education and Training .. 74 Overview.

8 74 RPL-related public comments on the Green Paper .. 75 NATIONAL artisan development: RPL model 77 SAQA .. 78 Policy development processes, including RPL .. 78 Career Advice Helpline .. 79 Advocacy for RPL .. 79 Coordination of projects .. 79 International liaison .. 80 Quality councils and the three qualification sub-frameworks .. 80 Umalusi .. 81 QCTO .. 81 Council on Higher Education (CHE) .. 82 Public comment issues on the three sub-frameworks .. 84 Subsequent MINISTERIAL determination of sub-frameworks .. 86 MINISTERIAL Task Teams.

9 86 South African Institute for Vocational and Continuing Education and Training .. 86 Community Education and Training Centres .. 87 SETA Performance .. 87 NCV Review .. 88 Charter for Humanities and Social Sciences .. 89 The DPSA s draft RPL policy .. 90 Key legislative and policy issues .. 91 The legal environment in international contexts .. 91 Legislative issues in South Africa .. 91 Chapter 6: Analysis, principles and 92 The legal environment .. 92 The law .. 92 Inter- MINISTERIAL collaboration .. 93 Creating an enabling environment for RPL.

10 94 The role of history and culture in shaping RPL .. 94 RPL providers/centres .. 95 Purposes of RPL .. 96 Different approaches to RPL for different 96 An RPL institute .. 97 Professionalisation of RPL .. 99 What the South African RPL system should aspire 99 Costs and proposed funding models for RPL in South Africa .. 101 Further research on funding and costing .. 101 Chapter 7: NATIONAL RPL Implementation strategy .. 102 Background .. 102 South Africa s socio-economic context and RPL .. 102 The development of RPL in South Africa .. 103 Vision for RPL implementation.


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