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Terms Related to the South African National Qualifications Framework
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- access
- accredited learning programme
- accredited provider
- admissions procedures
- adult education and training (AET)
- advanced standing
- applied competence
- apprenticeship
- articulation
- artisan
- assessment
- assessment body
- assessment criteria
- Assessment Quality Partner (AQP)
- assessor
- basic education
- career advice
- career development services
- career path
- certification
- college
- continuing education and training
- continuing professional development (CPD)
- Council on Higher Education (CHE)
- credential
- credential evaluation
- credit
- credit accumulation
- credit accumulation and transfer (CAT)
- credit transfer
- critical cross-field outcomes (CCFOs)
- curriculum
- designated group
- Development Quality Partner (DQP)
- educator
- enacted curriculum
- enrol
- entry-level requirements
- equal opportunity
- evaluation of a foreign qualification
- examiner
- exit level outcomes
- exit point
- external assessment
- foreign qualification
- formal learning
- formative assessment
- foundational competence
- foundational learning
- Further Education and Training (FET) college
- General and Further Education and Training Qualifications Sub-Framework (GFETQSF)
- general education
- guidance of learners
- Higher Education
- Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF)
- informal learning
- institutional audit
- integration
- Interdepartmental NQF Steering Committee
- internal assessment
- international comparability
- job
- learner
- learner achievement
- learnership
- learning
- learning outcomes
- learning programme
- level
- level descriptor
- lifelong learning
- ministerial guidelines for the NQF
- monitoring and evaluation of the NQF
- National Artisan Moderation Body (NAMB)
- National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)
- national programme review
- National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
- National Qualifications Framework Implementation Framework
- non-formal learning
- notional hours
- occupation
- Occupational Qualifications Sub-Framework (OQSF)
- occupational specialisation
- Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO)
- part-qualification
- pathway
- placement opportunity
- portability
- post-school education and training
- practical competence
- private college
- private provider
- professional body
- professional designation
- programme
- progression
- provider
- Public Adult Learning Centre (PALC)
- public provider
- qualification
- qualification descriptor
- qualification type
- qualification variant
- quality
- quality assurance
- Quality Council
- Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO)
- recognition of a foreign qualification
- Recognition of Prior Learning
- recognition of professional bodies
- record of learning
- reflexive competence
- registered examination centre
- registration of a learner on a learnership
- registration of a learnership
- registration of a private provider
- registration of a professional designation
- registration of a professional person with a professional body
- registration of a qualification or part-qualification
- registration of an independent school
- Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA)
- short course
- skills programme
- South African Institute for Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (SAIVCET)
- South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
- Sub-Framework of the NQF
- summative assessment
- System of Collaboration
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College
- trade
- Umalusi
- unit standard
- verification of a qualification
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- vocational orientation
- volume of learning
- work experience
- Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
- workplace-based learning
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