NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK AMENDMENT ACT IN FORCE

NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK AMENDMENT ACT IN FORCE

• 13 October 2023
• Education & Training
• SA Legal Academy

Most sections of the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Act, 2019, came into force on 12 September 2023, according to a presidential proclamation gazetted a month later. Among other things, the Act:

• provides for the referral of fraudulent qualifications to a relevant professional body
• introduces offences for qualification fraud, and
• empowers the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) to:
  • formulate criteria for evaluating foreign qualifications
  • evaluate foreign qualifications, and to
  • establish and maintain registers for:
    • professional designations, and
    • misrepresented and fraudulent qualifications.

Provisions not yet in effect are:

• the substitute definition of ‘skills development provider’
• registration and accreditation requirements affecting ‘every private education institution or skills development provider offering education and training programmes or any component thereof towards a qualification or part-qualification’, and
• a requirement that every qualification or part-qualification should be evaluated and verified by the SAQA before being introduced and operationalised.

Please click the links below for more information:

• presidential proclamation
• amendment Act

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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