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What is the NQF?
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In the SAQA Act (1995), and in its replacement NQF Act, the NQF is an integrated framework of all qualifications and components of qualifications at all levels. This has led to the NQF being compared to a ladder. The NQF covers many possible learning and career paths, which include all forms of education and training and each step in the ladder represents progress. In that way the ladder is designed to make it easier for people to move upwards in their career paths.
We can go further by saying that each step of the ladder is governed by principles and guidelines that standardise the learning that takes place at that step or level. The NQF is a structure used to establish a common understanding of learning achieved. The NQF has won wide acceptance as the principal instrument through which national education and training qualifications are recognised and quality assured.
The National Qualifications Framework is vital to South Africa’s future by building and developing qualifications that are based on clearly defined national and international standards, wherever possible.
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