EVOLUTION OF
ARTISAN RECOGNITION OF PRIOR
LEARNING
IN
SOUTH AFRICA
SAQA RPL CONFERENCE JHB 23 FEB 2014
DR F PRINSLOO
EVOLUTION STAGES
(EARLY ARTISAN DEVELOPMENT : EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCE)
Middle Ages – master craftsman and learner
- Traces of informal learning evident
Industrial Revolution – journeyman/apprentice
- Early
y stages
g of recognition
g
of p
prior learning
g ((RPL))
Colonial Era – imported tradesman
- Large numbers (discovery of diamonds and gold)
- Mining sector (predominates)
- Production focus (tradesman assistants, no formal recognition)
Apartheid Era – Apprenticeship (dominant)
- Mining, manufacturing and services sector
- Entrenched apprentice system, culmination MTA, 1981
- Tradesman
T d
assistants
i t t without
ith t recognition
iti (Protectionist
(P t ti i t regimes)
i
)
Democratic Era – Apprenticeship (initial stage)
- Mining (declining), manufacturing and services(growing),energy
- Skills Development urgent as a result of open &
participatory
p
p
y democracy,
y, accelerated economic g
growth,,
employment creation and poverty, globalisation.
- Broadened participation in the artisan environment though
(Protectionist regimes persist in tacit forms)
- Skills Development Act, 1998 (learnership and SETAs)
RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
FOR ARTISANS
- Surfacing of RPL as National Policy, SAQA 2003, GL : 2004
- Unambiguous official surfacing of RPL (SDA, 2008): section 26D (a) – (d)
TRADE TEST /FINAL ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
TRADE TEST /FINAL ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
ON THE FRINGES
S
SECTION 13 (CONTRACT) LEARNERSHIP SECTION 28 (INFORMAL) RPL
DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING APPROACHES
SAME TRADE TEST
ARPL SYSTEM LOCATION
ADMISSION
CRITERIA
Trade theory
Prac/Sim
W k
i
Work experience
RPL(gap closure)
CURRICULUM DELIVERY
PROVIDERS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY ASSURANCE
PURE ARPL
(access)
FINAL ASSESSMENT
Summative(TT) And
CERTIFICATION
TRADE
TRADE TEST CENTRES & QCTO
TEST CENTRES & QCTO
ARTISAN
RPL PRACTICE
9 Hardly practiced
9 Differentiated policies
9 Short ‐ circuited as Section 28
9 Scarcely ring f
fenced funds
df d
ADMISSION
CRITERIA
Trade theory
Prac/Sim
Work experience
RPL
ARPL COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN 2004 – 2012
(CHIETA, MERSETA, TETA)
- ADMISSION
CRITERIA THE SAME (TRADE THEORY + EXPERIENCE (DIFFERENTIATED,
MINIMUM 4YEARS)
- PORTFOLIO OF EVIDENCE COMPILED
COMPILED, GRADED AND USED AS ACCESS
REQUIREMENT TO A TRADE TEST
- BETWEEN 2004 – 2012 LESS THAN 30% OF THE CERTIFICATION TOTAL AND LARGELY
THROUGH SECTION 28
- SECTION 28 ENJOYED NO PARITY OF ESTEEM IN INDUSTRY.
- SECTION 28 OBTAINED AT INDLELA
INDLELA.
- SAME PERIOD LESS THAN 1% OF TOTAL CERTIFICATION AS A RESULT OF PURE
ARPL
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
(IN ANTICIPATION OF THE TRADE TEST REGULATIONS, 2012/TOTAL REPEAL OF MTA, 1981)
THE ARTISAN RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
PILOT PROJECT
2012
QCTO
ATD‐TTT Artisan Development
RPL Model February 2012
NAMB
Quality Assurance & Certification
NAMB
NAMB
Trade Test Moderator
NAMB Assessor
“Blind” Assessment
P.O.E.s
DHET Artisan
DHET Artisan
RPL Unit FET College and/or Training
Centre and/or Workplace
Gap Training RPL Advisor
Development
RPL Toolkit Development
RPL Advisor Progressively Compiles Portfolios of Evidence
** These full time
RPL Advisors can be
DHET or Employer or Labour based.
RPL Learner
RPL Learner
RPL Learner
Employers, Labour, State = ATD Forums
Database, Criteria, Selection,Targets
DHET Artisan
RPL Unit PROGRESSIVE RESULTS OF THE PILOT PROJECT
- 267 ARTISAN ASSISTANTS ENLISTED NATIONALLY
- 5 TRADES TOOLKITS PRODUCED (ELEC, DM, WEL, BM, F) and USED
- 267 THEORY/KNOWLEDGE ASSESSED
(INCLUSIVE FINAL RESULTS OF THE PILOT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 2015)
NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR ARTISAN RECOGNITION OF PRIOR
LEARNING, 2013
(OPERATE IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRADE TEST REGULATIONS
REGULATIONS, 2012)
CONTENTS
1. Vision
2. Mission
3. Scope
4. Definitions
5. Principles
6. Purpose of the National Criteria for ARPL
7. ARPL based Trade Testing
8. ARPL Framework 9. ARPL Admission Requirements
10. ARPL Process Procedures
11. ARPL Assessment Criteria
12. ARPL Competency Grid
13. Disputes and Appeals 14. Acronyms
INTENDED FUTURE IMPACT
1. Standardised and quantifiable national artisan development with respect to RPL.
2. Standardised ARTISAN RPL trade testing practices.
3. Free flowing pipeline on ARTISAN RPL.
4. Exponential growth of artisan supply –
p
g
f
pp y demand RPL curve.
5. Generally: career progression, economic growth, employment and social stability.
and social stability.
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