EDUCATION – LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPLANATORY NOTE
The Bargaining Council has announced important developments in various categories for Services SETA for the Hairdressing and Beauty Industry. These are effective as of 16 May 2021 and cover specific areas of interest to industry members including:
The Beauty Therapist occupational qualification under the QCTO
The deactivation of legacy qualifications by the QCTO
The re-printing of artisans certificates
Specific expiring legacy qualifications as of 30th June 2021, for Hairdressing and Beauty
The evaluation and accreditation of skills development providers
Chamber projects - short skills programmes delivery in rural areas
New discretionary funding grants windows awaiting review
Chamber committee establishment
For full review, please see below for particulars.
Special Note:
Discretionary grants: Call for applications for levy paying entities
The Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Services SETA) is inviting Levy paying entities to apply for discretionary grant funding to Learnerships Employed and Skills Programme Employed interventions The application window will open on 7 September 2021 at 8:00 AM and will close on 15 October 2021at 4:00 PM. For detailed information please refer to our website www.serviceseta.org.za
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0n 16 May 2021 Services SETA (SSETA) released an update on the latest developments concerning Hairdressing and Beauty within the Personal Care Sector.
(a) Occupational Qualifications Development: The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) re-submitted the Beauty Therapist occupational qualification to the South African Qualifications Authority after it was returned on their first submission as they had to fix a few issues on their submission. SSETA is now awaiting the registration of this occupational qualification on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). (b) Deactivation of Legacy qualifications: The QCTO is not re-registering expiring legacy qualifications, and this means that only the new occupational qualifications will be utilized in the various industries within the chamber in the near future. (c) Hairdressing Containers: The Services SETA is consulting with a number of possible partners which can house the three containers that are still with the developers. These possible partners include: The TVET Colleges and Wahl Clipper (Pty) Ltd. (d) Artisans Certificates Re-printing: The Services SETA is still working with the external service providers who owned the systems to obtain the information that will assist the Artisans department submit the required information to the National Artisans Moderation Body (NAMB) for the re-printing of the certificates.
(e) Expiring Legacy Qualifications: All three Hairdressing legacy qualifications expired on the 30th June 2021:
• National Certificate: Hairdressing NQF Level 2 (SAQA ID: 65750);
• National Certificate: Hairdressing NQF Level 3 (SAQA ID: 65749);
• Further Education and Training Certificate: Hairdressing NQF Level 4 (SAQA ID: 65729)
For Beauty:
National Diploma: Health and Skincare NQF Level 5 (SAQA ID: 58310) has expired. Further Education and Training Certificate: Beauty and Nail Technology NQF Level 4 (SAQA ID: 80646) expires on the 30th June 2023.
(f) Accreditation of skills development providers: The Services SETA is conducting evaluation of training sites virtually and providers are provided with guidance to submit videos as part of showing how their premises look like and are supported throughout the process. Those entities that are seeking accreditation are encouraged to apply and they will be assisted accordingly.
(g) Chamber Projects: The chamber projects are still the short skills programmes for Hairdressing and Beauty with contracted service providers to deliver training in the rural areas of North West, Northern Cape, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga. The Services SETA is following the staggered approach in implementing these short skills programmes.
Currently, training for 1750 learners is being rolled out in these areas and there are still outstanding learners as per the contracts with the service providers.
(h) New Discretionary Grants windows: No new funding windows have been opened recently. The training needs that were identified by the previous chamber committee are still being kept as the training needs of the chamber until they are reviewed in the next meetings once the chamber committee is established.
This means that should the organisation be looking at opening a funding window, this wishlist of training needs will be put forward.
SSETA emphasized that there is NO guarantee that the chamber identified training needs will all be considered for implementation due to various reasons like budget constraints, directives from the Department of Higher Education and similar needs from other chambers and industries that also need to be considered from the same limited budget.
(i) Chamber committee establishment: The chamber is awaiting a decision by the Board on the submitted nominations.
SOME EXPLANATORY NOTES:
Legacy qualifications are the old qualifications that are registered on the National Qualifications Framework “NQF”. The Education, Training and Development Quality Assurance unit “ETDQA” was previously accredited by the South African Qualifications Authority “SAQA” in accordance with the SAQA Act 58 of 1995. The scope and functions of the Education, Training Quality Assurance “ETQA” units have changed in line with the mandate of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations “QCTO”.
The Development of Occupational Standards and Qualifications is one of the Services SETA’s priorities in supporting the stakeholder to ensure that there are Occupational Qualifications to respond to skills development priorities of the country. The availability of occupational Qualifications facilitates Skills Development that supports the Labour Market needs
Occupational Qualifications means:
A qualification that is associated with a Trade Occupation or a Profession resulting from workbased Learning and consisting of Knowledge Standards, Practical Standards and Work Experience Standards.
The Services SETA, having been nominated as the DQP (Development Quality Partner) has managed to successfully develop and register 6 Occupational Qualifications with the QCTO in the last 4 years, of which the Occupational certificate: Hairdresser (102497) being one.
When Occupational qualification are developed and successfully registered it also takes the place of the historic (legacy qualifications). This DOES NOT mean that the qualification is no longer valid. It only means that a new qualification is being taught.
All qualifications when registered have an end date. When industry stakeholders provide comment and request for an extension of that specific qualification it will be submitted to the QCTO with a request to extend. With the hairdressing occupational certificate, the request was for the legacy qualification to be replaced.
Any questions may be directed to Mariska@eohcb.com.
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For any further info please contact the Bargaining Council and we will gladly assist.
