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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY |
REGISTERED QUALIFICATION THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE: |
Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support |
SAQA QUAL ID | QUALIFICATION TITLE | |||
65051 | Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support | |||
ORIGINATOR | ||||
SGB Art, Craft & Design | ||||
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY | NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK | |||
CATHSSETA - Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sports Education and Training Authority | OQSF - Occupational Qualifications Sub-framework | |||
QUALIFICATION TYPE | FIELD | SUBFIELD | ||
Further Ed and Training Cert | Field 02 - Culture and Arts | Cultural Studies | ||
ABET BAND | MINIMUM CREDITS | PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL | NQF LEVEL | QUAL CLASS |
Undefined | 147 | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | Regular-Unit Stds Based |
REGISTRATION STATUS | SAQA DECISION NUMBER | REGISTRATION START DATE | REGISTRATION END DATE | |
Passed the End Date - Status was "Reregistered" |
SAQA 06120/18 | 2018-07-01 | 2023-06-30 | |
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT | LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT | |||
2024-06-30 | 2027-06-30 |
In all of the tables in this document, both the pre-2009 NQF Level and the NQF Level is shown. In the text (purpose statements, qualification rules, etc), any references to NQF Levels are to the pre-2009 levels unless specifically stated otherwise. |
This qualification does not replace any other qualification and is not replaced by any other qualification. |
PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION |
Purpose:
The Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support is designed to meet the needs of those learners both employed and unemployed, who are already involved or wish to become involved in this field. This unit standards based qualification allows learners the opportunity to reach their potential and allows for their advancement within formal education, as well as allowing for the recognition of prior learning. This qualification enables learners with the competencies to support a more qualified and/or experienced Arts and Culture practitioner to organise, administer and implement Arts and Culture learning interventions, projects or campaigns and improve products. There is an ongoing need for competent people to carry out these functions in the Arts and Culture sector, within the established business sector, but more so within the growing Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) sector. This qualification enables learners from the struggling informal, self-employed and lower levels in this sector to access a career in the Arts and Culture sector. The Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support, is a specialised qualification that requires competence of creative practitioners from various arts and cultural disciplines who: Qualified learners are capable of: Qualifying learners will seek occupations as: Rationale: This Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support, emerges from a recognition that there exists a rich history, both locally and internationally, of arts and culture practitioners playing a meaningful role in various contexts, their creativity and skills contributing to the development of creative capacities in others in the context of a range of personal, social, economic and educational ends. In the South African context, most of these 'arts and culture development practitioners' have been self taught or emerged from Not for Profit Organisations' (NPOs) training, or Higher Education degree programmes that do not specifically equip them for the adaptation and application of their creative skills in a developmental context. The need for this qualification emerged from recognition that the set of competencies of the arts and culture practitioners often do not reflect the needs of developmental work in the communities within which they work. The training of arts and culture practitioners at the level of this qualification is generally focused on applying creative and technical skills, and assisting with development projects and learning interventions within identified Arts and Cultural programmes. Practitioners obtaining this qualification are able to provide professional support directly to individuals and communities and will be empowering such individuals and communities to achieve specific outcomes. This will enhance the social, economic and productive status of qualified learners within the Arts and Culture industry. Qualified learners could follow a career in: The Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support is an entry level qualification for candidates that are interested in a career in Arts and Culture development. On completion, learners can progress to the National Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Management at NQF Level 5. |
LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING |
The qualification was designed based on the assumption that the following competencies have already been achieved:
Recognition of Prior Learning: The structure of this Unit Standard based Qualification makes the Recognition of Prior Learning possible. Learner and Assessor will jointly decide on methods to determine prior learning and competence in the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes implicit in the Qualification and the associated Unit Standards. Recognition of Prior Learning will be done by means of an Integrated Assessment as mentioned below. This Recognition of Prior Learning may allow for: All recognition of Prior Learning is subject to quality assurance by the relevant ETQA or an ETQA that has a Memorandum of Understanding with the relevant ETQA. This qualification can be achieved wholly, or in part, through recognition of prior learning. Evidence can be presented in a variety of forms, including previous international or local qualifications, reports, testimonials, mentoring, functions performed, portfolios, work records and performance records. As such, evidence should be judged according to the general principles of assessment described in the notes to assessors below. Learners who have met the requirements of any Unit Standard that forms part of this qualification may apply for recognition of prior learning to the relevant Education and Training Quality Assurance body (ETQA). The applicant must be assessed against the specific outcomes and with the assessment criteria for the relevant Unit Standards. A qualification will be awarded should a learner demonstrate that the exit level outcomes of the qualification have been attained. Access to the Qualification: |
RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING? |
Y |
QUALIFICATION RULES |
The qualification consists of Fundamental, Core and Elective unit standards. A minimum of 147 credits is required to achieve the qualification. The credits are allocated as follows:
The Fundamental Component consists of 56 credits made up as follows: It is therefore compulsory for learners to do Communication in two different South African languages, one at NQF Level 4 and the other at NQF Level 3. Core Component (80 credits) compulsory for all learners. Elective Component: |
EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES |
1. Communicate with stakeholders and communities for arts and culture projects.
2. Prepare and implement arts and culture learning interventions. 3. Contribute towards assessment processes. 4. Support learning interventions. 5. Organise and coordinate arts and culture projects. 6. Support arts and culture product development process. 7. Investigate and explore positioning of arts and culture products and projects. |
ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA |
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2: > Range: Community may refer to groups, societies, associations, sector or individual learner. Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3: Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4: Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5: Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6: Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7: > Range: Financial sources may include sponsorships, donations, grants and loans. Integrated Assessment: The assessment criteria in the unit standards are performance-based, assessing applied competence, rather than only underpinning knowledge, or only skills. The critical cross-field outcomes are also achieved in the unit standards. In addition to the competence assessed to achieve the unit standards, learners must demonstrate that they can achieve the outcomes in an integrated manner, dealing effectively with different and random demands related to occupational and learning contexts, to qualify, and assessment approaches used should be appropriate for assessing applied competence. Integrated assessment is meaningful if there are clear relationships between the purpose statement, exit level outcomes and integrated assessment of this qualification. Learners who qualify must be able to integrate concepts, ideas and behaviours across unit standards to achieve the purpose of the qualification. Evidence (as specified in the associated assessment criteria) is required that the learner is able to achieve the exit level outcomes of the qualification as a whole and in an integrated way, and thus its purpose, at the time of the award of the qualification. Evidence of integration may be presented by learners when being assessed against the unit standards, and separate assessment for integration may not be necessary. Workplace experience can be recognised when assessing towards this qualification. Integrated assessment should include observable performance as well as the quality of thinking behind such performance. Formative assessment can be employed during learning towards the unit standards and during integration to achieve exit level outcomes, to ensure that integration takes place when summative assessment is employed. |
INTERNATIONAL COMPARABILITY |
International qualifications were examined to ensure that the qualification structure and unit standards in the Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Support are comparable in terms of level, scope and competencies covered. Very few countries in the world have developed qualifications specifically for this field of skills development practices. For this reason, the research has been reflected collectively as it is relevant to the proposed qualification. No comparable qualifications were found, but there are a significant number of international qualifications at graduate or post graduate level that compare closely in purpose and content with this qualification.
Qualifications, courses and/or programmes were analysed from a number of countries, including: United Kingdom: In the United Kingdom the Arts Council of England has various programmes supporting the development of Arts and Culture practice in communities. Equivalent programmes include the following core areas of competence that relate to this South African qualification: The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has an apprenticeship on Level 3 that focuses on the classroom assistant with competences related to this South African qualification as follows: Australia: On the Australian qualifications framework, equivalent competence forms part of a Certificate in Education for teacher aides. The core component of the Australian qualification that relate to this South African qualification includes: The Arts and Culture Development Grants of Kingston, Australia, encourages local artists, cultural practitioners and community-based groups to improve their skills in creative and cultural development, and management of arts and cultural activities through various short courses that relate to unit standards in this qualification. New Zealand: The New Zealand framework credits competence at an equivalent level, but with different credits (and, therefore, notional hours) and not as a qualification, for the following units that are also addressed in this South African qualification: The following units on the NZQA relate to units in this FETC but are at a different level and of different credit value: United States of America: In the United States of America, and specifically in Hawaii, the Arts and Culture Development Branch (ACDB) in the State of Hawaii promotes the growth of the diverse creative and cultural resources of Hawaii as well as Hawaii-made products by supporting, planning, organising, and implementing programmes, projects, and activities that result in a creative economy that is a vibrant and sustainable sector of Hawaii's economy and by developing and expanding domestic and foreign markets for Hawaii's products. This is done through short courses that address the same areas of competence as some of this South African qualification's unit standards: Singapore: In Singapore, there are various institutes addressing the development and assisting of Arts and Culture development through short courses and full time courses, but these do not address the units of competence generically, as is the case with this South African qualification. India: The India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore assists Arts and Culture development through a grants system with programmes and short courses to assist educators in their respective field. The learning outcomes achieved relate to this South African qualification as follows: India Foundation for the Arts; South African qualification: > Conduct project documentation management to support project processes. > Conduct a self-evaluation of own progress and development. > Select and use learning support materials in development practice. > Support the development of existing Arts and Culture products. Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in India does similar training to assist Arts management, skills and product development. These certificate programmes range from one to three years in duration, but are at a higher level of complexity compared with this South African qualification. Africa and SADC: In African countries such as Rwanda, Kenya, Swaziland, Cameroon, Zambia, Ethiopia and Lesotho, training for inclusion is mostly limited to teacher training and skills development of artists, at higher levels of complexity than this South African qualification. Such teacher and arts and culture practitioner training, usually in the form of short courses, includes peer support, arts skills, classroom management, adapting the curriculum, group work, encouraging family support, and promoting positive attitudes. Most other initiatives make use of community development and participation, without formal training at the community level. In Nigeria the Institute for Media and Society (IMS) focuses on short courses and programmes that include areas such as research and documentation, training, publishing, and networking. These areas relate closely to the general outcome of this South African qualification. Registered at the Botswana Training Authority are units that compare to unit standards included in this qualification. The Botswana units of competence correlate as follows with the South African qualification: NQF: Botswana Training Authority; Level; South African qualification: Conclusion: The Further Education and Training Certificate: Arts and Culture Development Practise compares favourably with a wide selection of international programmes as identified above, providing a mix of mandatory and optional units that enable learners to tailor the qualification to their particular role. Where outcomes or competencies are identified within the international qualifications, they are generally comparable to the South African qualification in terms of level of complexity and range of competencies covered. Although no comparable qualifications were found, there are a significant number of international qualifications at graduate or post graduate level that compare well in purpose and content with this South African qualification. |
ARTICULATION OPTIONS |
Horizontal articulation on the NQF is possible with the following NQF Level 4 qualifications:
Vertical articulation on the NQF is possible with the following NQF Level 5 qualifications: |
MODERATION OPTIONS |
Moderation of assessment and accreditation of providers shall be at the discretion of a relevant ETQA as long as it complies with the SAQA requirements. The ETQA is responsible for moderation of learner achievements of learners who meet the requirements of this qualification. Particular moderation and accreditation requirements are:
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CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS |
Assessment of learner achievements takes place at providers accredited by the relevant ETQA (RSA, 1998b) for the provision of programmes that result in the outcomes specified for this qualification. Anyone assessing a learner or moderating the assessment of a learner against this qualification must be registered as an assessor with the ETQA. Assessors registered with the relevant ETQA must carry out the assessment of learners for the qualification and any of the Unit Standards that make up this qualification.
To register as an assessor, the following are required: Assessors should keep the following general principles in mind when designing and conducting assessments: In particular, assessors should assess that the learner demonstrates an ability to consider a range of options by: All assessments should be conducted in line with the following well-documented principles: |
REREGISTRATION HISTORY |
As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2012; 2015. |
NOTES |
N/A |
UNIT STANDARDS: |
ID | UNIT STANDARD TITLE | PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL | NQF LEVEL | CREDITS | |
Core | 117865 | Assist and support learners to manage their learning experiences | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Core | 110053 | Conduct a basic community needs assessment | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 12 |
Core | 110057 | Conduct a self-evaluation of own progress and development | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 2 |
Core | 120376 | Conduct project documentation management to support project processes | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Core | 120373 | Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 9 |
Core | 123396 | Define target audience profiles and skills gaps | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Core | 123410 | Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of issues of unity and diversity in a historical context | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 4 |
Core | 12544 | Facilitate the preparation and presentation of evidence for assessment | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 4 |
Core | 120387 | Monitor, evaluate and communicate simple project schedules | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 4 |
Core | 120375 | Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Core | 110054 | Select and use learning support materials in development practice | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 8 |
Core | 261282 | Support arts and culture project facilitation and learning intervention | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Core | 261285 | Support the development of existing arts and culture products | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 8 |
Fundamental | 119472 | Accommodate audience and context needs in oral/signed communication | Level 3 | NQF Level 03 | 5 |
Fundamental | 119457 | Interpret and use information from texts | Level 3 | NQF Level 03 | 5 |
Fundamental | 119467 | Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes | Level 3 | NQF Level 03 | 5 |
Fundamental | 119465 | Write/present/sign texts for a range of communicative contexts | Level 3 | NQF Level 03 | 5 |
Fundamental | 9015 | Apply knowledge of statistics and probability to critically interrogate and effectively communicate findings on life related problems | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Fundamental | 119462 | Engage in sustained oral/signed communication and evaluate spoken/signed texts | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Fundamental | 119469 | Read/view, analyse and respond to a variety of texts | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Fundamental | 9016 | Represent analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 4 |
Fundamental | 119471 | Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Fundamental | 7468 | Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business, national and international issues | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Fundamental | 119459 | Write/present/sign for a wide range of contexts | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Elective | 120027 | Apply financial knowledge and skill to compile a finance agreement | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 2 |
Elective | 115409 | Assist with tasks related to marketing, market research and promotions | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 7 |
Elective | 114598 | Demonstrate an understanding of an entrepreneurial profile | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Elective | 252206 | Demonstrate an understanding of product positioning | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 4 |
Elective | 115208 | Establish the basic principles of fundraising | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
Elective | 123459 | Manage self-development in the workplace | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Elective | 120029 | Promote Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment through education, training and development | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 6 |
Elective | 114596 | Research the viability of new venture ideas/opportunities | Level 4 | NQF Level 04 | 5 |
LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION: |
NONE |
PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THIS QUALIFICATION: |
This information shows the current accreditations (i.e. those not past their accreditation end dates), and is the most complete record available to SAQA as of today. Some Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionaries have a lag in their recording systems for provider accreditation, in turn leading to a lag in notifying SAQA of all the providers that they have accredited to offer qualifications and unit standards, as well as any extensions to accreditation end dates. The relevant Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionary should be notified if a record appears to be missing from here. |
NONE |
All qualifications and part qualifications registered on the National Qualifications Framework are public property. Thus the only payment that can be made for them is for service and reproduction. It is illegal to sell this material for profit. If the material is reproduced or quoted, the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) should be acknowledged as the source. |