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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY

REGISTERED QUALIFICATION THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE:

Master of Business Administration

SAQA QUAL ID	QUALIFICATION TITLE
9257	Master of Business Administration
ORIGINATOR
University of Witwatersrand
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY			NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK
CHE - Council on Higher Education			HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework
QUALIFICATION TYPE	FIELD		SUBFIELD
Master's Degree	Field 03 - Business, Commerce and Management Studies		Finance, Economics and Accounting
ABET BAND	MINIMUM CREDITS	PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL	NQF LEVEL	QUAL CLASS
Undefined	240	Level 8 and above	NQF Level 08	Regular-Provider-ELOAC
REGISTRATION STATUS		SAQA DECISION NUMBER	REGISTRATION START DATE	REGISTRATION END DATE
Passed the End Date - Status was "Reregistered"		SAQA 0695/12	2012-07-01	2015-03-13
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT		LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2016-03-13		2019-03-13

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 is replaced by:

Qual ID	Qualification Title	Pre-2009 NQF Level	NQF Level	Min Credits	Replacement Status
94865	Master of Business Administration	Not Applicable	NQF Level 09	220	Complete

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION

The purpose of the qualification is to:

Prepare students for general, managerial, leadership roles in the enterprise sector;

Through enhanced knowledge of the functional areas of business to show the interdependencies between these functions;

Enhance students values knowledge and skills to act ethically and effectively in the management of organisations in the enterprise sector;

Enhance decision-making capacity in upper-middle and senior levels of management in business organisations;

Familiarise participants with conceptual frameworks and current debates in management and contemporary society;

Develop skills in the management of people and the management of change;

Develop problem solving and research skills relevant to the enterprise sector.

LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING

Experiential knowledge of managing organisations and people.

Understanding of and commitment to accountability and ethical responsibility in management.

Ability to integrate experience and new knowledge.

Be able to cope with an intensive, multi-disciplinary, post-graduate learning programme.

Appropriate levels of numeracy, academic literacy and information literacy to cope with initial course demands.

Formally Accredited Learning:
There are three formal criteria for entrance:

a Bachelor's degree or a Postgraduate Diploma in Management of the University, or equivalent in any field;

at least three years working experience in business;

satisfactory completion of admissions test(s) measuring ability on cognitive, arithmetic and general reasoning.

Recognition of Prior Learning:

Applicants who fall outside of the normal admissions process who can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the University that they have a qualification or experiential- or work based learning which has taken the learner to an equivalent level of a qualification specified above (under Formally Accredited Learning), may be considered for admission and/or for the recognition of prior accredited and/or prior experiential learning. Applicants who, after such assessment, are deemed to have sufficient potential but are in need of further academic development, may be required to broaden their curriculum to include preliminary programmes prior to admission or parallel programmes after admission.

Applicants without degrees will be considered if they are currently working in a high-level management position and have extensive management experience.

RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING?

EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES

The qualifying learner:

1. Demonstrates understanding of a comparative range of business-management frameworks and evaluates their applicability to South African contexts.

2. Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of conceptual and analytical fields within business-management.

3. Demonstrates abilities to access, use and manage information.

4. Demonstrates abilities to apply conceptual and analytical frameworks within different organisational management conditions.

5. Presents information in a range of written and oral modes and genres appropriate to audience.

6. Has enhanced leadership, problem solving skills and expertise appropriate to complex and rapidly changing organisational environments.

7. Develops ethical and practical leadership skills including abilities to exercise judgement within an environment of competing values.

8. Conceptualises, pursues and presents research into complex problems in contextualised business-management environments and makes persuasive recommendations.

9. Demonstrates abilities to work alone or in teams in the achievement of 1-8 above.

Critical Cross-field Outcomes:

a) "Identifying and solving problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made" - see Exit Level Outcomes (ELO) 1, 3, 6, 7 & 9.

b) "Working with others as a member of a team, group, organisation, community" - see ELO 3, 6 & 9.

c) "Organising and managing oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively" - see ELO 7 & 9.

d) "Collecting, analysing, organising and critically evaluating information" - see ELO 3, 4, 8 & 9.

e) "Communicating effectively using visual, mathematical and/or language skills in the modes of oral and/or written persuasion" - see ELO 5.

f) "Using science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and health of others" - see ELO 7.

g) "Demonstrating an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts does not exist in isolation" - see ELO 6, 8 & 9.

h) "Contributing to the full personal development of each learner and the social and economic development of society at large, by making it the underlying intention of any programme of learning to make an individual aware of the importance of:

(i) "Reflecting on and exploring a variety of strategies to learn more effectively" - see ELO 9.

(ii) "Participating as responsible citizens in the life of local, national and global communities" - see ELO 1, 7; note also that learners act in accordance with the code of conduct of the University and, where relevant, that of the professional discipline being studied.

(iii) "Being culturally and aesthetically sensitive across a range of social contexts" - see ELO 7.

(iv) "Exploring education and career opportunities" - see ELO implicit 1-8.

(v) "Developing entrepreneurial opportunities" - see ELO implicit 1-8.

ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Learners are assessed on their abilities to:

1. Analyse and solve complex and ambiguous problems;

2. Manage change as individuals and in groups;

3. Think strategically in a rapidly changing and contested context;

4. Plan and make decisions;

5. Access, use and manage information;

6. Put in place, solve and evaluate processes.

Integrated Assessment:

Integrated assessment occurs in two ways:

Certain MBA 'capstone' courses are designed, taught and assessed to integrate the MBA curriculum. The assessment takes place through cases and competency testing through simulations.

All candidates submit a research report demonstrating abilities to plan, conduct, report and analyse a topic of significance to the management field.

ARTICULATION OPTIONS

This section specifies with which other qualifications of the University the qualification was designed to articulate, i.e. formal articulation; therefore the qualification can articulate informally with equivalent qualifications offered by the University, or with other qualifications offered nationally and internationally.

Further, an applicant registered at this University or another higher education institution for a similar qualification and who has successfully and satisfactorily completed half or less of the qualification, may be able to complete the qualification at the University, and may be granted credit for similar courses already completed.

Entry to the qualification:
A Bachelor's degree or a Postgraduate Diploma in Management of the University, or equivalent, with at least three years working experience in business, and the satisfactory completion of admissions test(s) measuring ability on cognitive, arithmetic and general reasoning.

Articulation during the qualification:

Learners registered for the MBA who fail to complete all the required coursework modules but who complete that portion of the MBA curriculum defined within a University approved Certificate of Competence may qualify for and receive the said Certificate of Competence.

On completion of the qualification:
The qualifying learner may apply to study for a Doctor of Philosophy of the University.

MODERATION OPTIONS

Internal University requirements govern how and by whom moderation is performed. For example, external examiners are appointed. Such moderation seeks, inter alia, to ensure that, where appropriate, our graduates will be able to comply with professional and statutory requirements. Further, whether an academic entity has a professional orientation or not, the University ensures that its activities are moderated by internal and external review quinquennially. The moderating body for qualifications of the University is the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education, currently represented by the Interim Higher Education Quality Committee.

CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS

Internal University quality requirements govern how and by whom assessment may be performed to ensure that assessors have the competence required to assess a qualification of this nature. Once the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education is constituted and ready to pronounce on issues of quality, the University will respond to the HEQC guidance on the registration of assessors. In the interim, the academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, are regarded as registered assessors since SAQA has registered the institution as a public higher education provider.

REREGISTRATION HISTORY

As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2006; 2009; 2012.

NOTES

This Qualification has been replaced by Qualification 94865, which is "Master of Business Administration" Level 9, 220 credits.
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. These qualifications will be realigned to what the CHE has termed Category C qualifications to comply with the HEQSF.

LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION:

When qualifications are replaced, some of their learning programmes are moved to being recorded against the replacement qualifications. If a learning programme appears to be missing from here, please check the replacement.

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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.

1.	University of Witwatersrand