1. Ms Nombulelo Nxesi ETDP SETA
Select Committee on Education and Recreation
Wednesday 26 November 2014

2. SCOPE OF COVERAGE Mandate of the ETDP SETA
Five-Year Strategy – Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals
Programmes to respond to the Goals
Key Projects
Support provided to provinces
Overall performance
Successes and Challenges 2

3. Mandate of the ETDP SETA
The core responsibility of SETA is to develop Sector Skills Plan (SSP).
The SSP provides the:
Profile of the labour force within the sector
supply and demand - the current and projected needs of
the sector and sector employers
It identifies areas of skills growth and skills need
It identifies the Strategies & Interventions to address the
skills priorities

4. Strategic Plan Overview - Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals
Increasing the ETDP SETA’s capacity for skills planning
Increasing new job entrants with intermediate and high level skills
Improving the quality of teaching and learning in the schooling system
Enhance youth employability
Improve capacity of the ETDP SETA constituencies
Improving the quality of ETD provisioning in the sector

5. 8 Programmes to respond to the Goals
Development of a credible Sector Skills Plan
Programme 2:
Supporting the FET Institutions to be responsive to the ETD sector and national priorities.
Programme 3:
Teacher Development in support of the Integrated Strategic Planning Framework for Teacher Education and Development in South Africa.
Programme 4: Increasing Student Access to and Graduate output in Higher Education and Further Education Institutions.
Programme 5:
Youth Development for Employability.
Programme 6:
ETD Constituency Support and Development.
Programme 7:
Strengthening of the Quality Assurance System and Improving Monitoring and Evaluation for Impact Assessment.
Programme 8:
Improving Organisational Performance Through Effective and Efficient Leadership, Management and Administration

6. Programme 1: Development of a credible Sector Skills Plan – Sub-Programmes
To create an institutional capacity for skills planning and mechanisms for addressing skills development needs and interventions in the ETD sector.
ETDP SETA constituencies submit quality WSPs/ATRs
Scarce and Critical Skills Guide developed and distributed
SDFs trained in the use of the scarce & critical skills guide
Learner Tracking and Tracing Study conducted
Annual Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey conducted
Evaluation Study conducted on the ETDP SETA’s programmes

7. 3.2 Programme 2: Supporting FET institutions to be responsive to the ETD sector and national priorities
To enhance the capacity of the FET institutions to provide skills development in order to deliver on vocational and occupationally directed programmes in the further education and training sector.
FET lecturers trained in PIVOTAL programmes
FET managers supported through management and leadership programmes
Lecturers supported for industry exposure and integrated learning programmes
FET lecturers trained as coaches, assessors and moderators
FET Colleges extending the scope to offer ETD learning programmes
Students support programmes are in place in all public FET Colleges
FET Colleges registered as workplace learning sites

8. Programme 3: Teacher Development in support of the ISPFTED-SA
To develop competent and professional human resource capital for the schooling sector by supporting the ISPFTED-SA.
Support for teachers in LSEN schools to improve learner performance
Support and strengthen School and District Management in order to promote functional schools
Support one national initiative (DBE/DHET) related to teacher development
Support for teacher capacity and practice in the delivery of subject content, pedagogy in gateway subjects
Grade 10, 11 and 12 teachers trained on End-User Computing skills
Grades 7, 8 and 9 teachers capacitated in subject content methodology
School based initial teacher education B.Ed./PGCE to increase the supply of teachers entering the teaching profession

9. Programme 4: Increasing access to and graduate output in Higher Education and Further Education and Training institutions
Focus areas
Career guides distributed
Bursaries awarded
Bursaries renewed
Workplace experience for FET College students
Workplace experience for UoT students
Matric rewrite programme

10. Programme 5: Youth development through increasing access to workplace learning
To provide the youth with workplace learning and experience in order to achieve competence in occupationally directed programmes for intermediate and high level skills.
Internships for young people
Learnerships for unemployed youth
Skills programmes for unemployed youth
Focus areas

11. Programme 6: Constituency support through skills development
To build capacity of the ETDP SETA constituencies through skills development.
Focus areas
Support for Trade Unions beneficiaries
Support for Political Parties beneficiaries
Support for NPOs beneficiaries
Support for Private Providers
Support for Independent Schools beneficiaries
Support for HEIs
Support for HESA
Support for HEIs SDF Forum
Support for Research Organisations
Support for SGB beneficiaries
Support for LIASA
Support for Teacher Unions beneficiaries

12. Programme 7: Strengthening the Quality Assurance System and improving Monitoring and Evaluation impact
To ensure effective and efficient systems for quality provisioning of skills development, credit bearing programmes for the ETD sector and ETDP SETA constituencies.
Review of policies
SLA with QCTO as an Assessment Quality Partner and setting up of assessment centres
Materials developed for occupational qualifications
Applications for accreditation and extension of scope for new/emerging providers
Occupational qualifications developed and completed
Learners who complete programmes to receive certificates
Training providers verified (all applications received and processed within the set timeframes)
Learners to pilot Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) (ComDev and ECD Programmes)
RPL centres set up
Programmes evaluated (all applications received and processed within the set timeframes)
The ETDP SETA supports the DHET’s Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) sub-sector re-engineering

13. PROGRAMME 8
Improving organisational administration and management to enhance organisational performance.

14. Key Projects

15. Special Projects
Organization of Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Review Project
ETDP SETA collaborated with DHET to facilitate and coordinate the review of vocational education and training conducted by the OECD to strengthen the South African TVET college systemassays
FET Infrastructure
A liability of R31,556m was raised in 2013/14 to cover the commitment that the ETDP SETA had made toward the payment of FET Infrastructure a required by DHET.
The liability will be reduced by tranche payments over the next two financial years.

16. Flagship Projects
Placement of Career Development Officers (CDOs) in 50 TVET Colleges Project
The ETDP SETA placed 200 unemployed graduates as CDOs in 50 TVET colleges for the past three years, increasing it by 113 in 2013/14 to expand the project to TVET college campuses. The project has elevated career guidance provisioning within the TVET colleges.
School Administration Assistant Project
1250 unemployment Grade 12 learners placed as school administration assistants in under- performing schools to strengthen their school administration.
The second phase of the project is to enrol these learners on programmes related to their work. So far 250 have been enrolled on End-User Computing programme in Limpopo.

17. Flagship Projects(contd.)
Research Chair Project
The ETDP SETA has now established four Research Chairs in four public higher education institutions (HEIs); Wits, UP, NWU and UKZN.
This is a multiyear project focusing on strengthening the ETDP SETA internal research capacity by undertaking various research projects on behalf of the SETA.
The project is only taking off in earnest now as it normally takes 6 to 12 months to establish a Research Chair at public HEIs.
Grade 12/Matric Second Chance Re-write Project
This is a project implemented in partnership with the National Youth Development Agency.
The partnership has been in place since the 2011/12 financial year and over young people, who failed at least four gateway subjects (Maths, Physical Science, Accounting and Natural Science, have benefited through the programme.
For the first time 10 top achievers from the programme were awarded bursaries/scholarships in 2013/14 financial year.

18. Work integrated learning (WIL) - toward an efficient TVET system
Pass rates
Throughput rates
Employability
Instructors:
Technically qualified
Pedagogically skilled
Industry experienced
Curricula:
Industry-aligned
Students:
Opportunities for relevant workplace experience
Rigorously assessed
435 lecturers to date have participated in the ETDP SETA’s WIL project
280 are currently in the project for 2014/15

19. Workplace experiential learning
Supporting students from TVET Colleges and Universities of Technology
Students are placed with employers to enable them to:
fulfil their curriculum requirements
gain experience for employability
So far students have been placed.

20. Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
An attempt to accelerate the training and the awarding of the NQF Level qualifications to the ECD and Community Development practitioners.
Partnerships in place for the establishment of RPL centres:
Orbit College in the North West Province
UMgungundlovu in KwaZulu-Natal
Research has been commissioned for the profiling of the learners who will participate in the RPL project

21. The ETDP SETA Footprint...
All nine ETDP SETA Provincial Offices are functional
We strive to bring service closer to the people
Provinces are the implementing wing of the ETDP SETA

22. Overview of Provincial Participation
The ETDP SETA participated in various Provincial Skills Development Structures and Initiatives, including:
Provincial Development Stakeholders’ Consultative Forum
Expanded Public Works Programme
Provincial Growth and Development Strategy, and
The Provincial Skills Development Committees/Forums

23. Support provided to provinces
Programme 1: Development of a credible Sector Skills Plan
Programme 2: Supporting FET and HE Institutions to be responsive to the ETD sector and national priorities
Programme 3: Teacher development in support of the ISPFTED-SA
Programme 4: Increasing student access to and graduate output in HE and FET Institutions
Programme 5: Youth Development for employability

24. Programme 1 Sub-Programme 3-year target EC FS GP KZN LP MP NC NW WCEC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
Total
Distribution of Scarce & Critical Skills Guide
8400
Target
780
800
1450
650
600
620
Achieved
788
736
1406
874
604
538
406
492
1034
6878
Training of the SDFs/Sector Skills Specialists in the use of the Guide
3400
350
250
400
100
150
387
162
821
518
646
482
316
399
4137

25. Programme 2 Sub-Programme 3-year target EC FS GP KZN LP MP NC NW WCEC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
Total
Lecturers trained on PIVOTAL programmes
750
Target 76
125 79 98 68
Achieved 85
122 88
123 30 77 75
118
794
FET College managers trained on leadership and management programmes
200 26 18 36 28 24 16 14 19 22
203 21 40 34 27 31 13
228
Lecturers supported to gain industry exposure through work integrated learning (WIL) and programmes
500 52 62 66 65 73 43 44 41 56 72 54
435
FET College lecturers trained as coaches, assessors and moderators - 20
320
400
329 38
482
Graduate interns placed and trained (2 per FET college) for student support and career guidance information dissemination 32 12 8

26. Programme 3 Sub-Programme 3-year target EC FS GP KZN LP MP NC NW WCEC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
Total
Support for teacher capacity and practice in the delivery of subject content, pedagogy and implementation of CAPS (Grade 10,11 and 12 teachers)
2800
Target
370
230
320
350
270
Achieved
375
239
412
453
351
343
257
344
133
2907
Grade teachers trained in End-User Computing
450 50 61
461
Employed learners trained in learnerships 42 30 72 23 65

27. Programme 3 (contd.)
Sub-Programme
3-year target EC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
Total
Support of the National Mathematics and Literacy Strategy (Primary school teachers)
1200
Target
250
200
100
150
1600
Achieved
248
291 89
242
231
274
152
222
103
1852
Teacher Assistants to register for B-Ed/PGCE through distance learning - 50 75 25 34 42
102  - 28
256
Support for teachers in LSEN schools
300 33 36 45 66
124 79
494
Support school SMT and district personnel order to promote functional schools
1650
130
400
190
296
143
182
134
393
163
202
1763

28. In 2013/14 bursary funds were transferred to NSFAS
Programme 4
Sub-Programme
3-year target EC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
Total
Dissemination of the Learner Career Guides
60 000
Target
7 222
7 522
4 722
8 052
7 850
7 772
6 722
65 156
Achieved
7 921
5 883
6 546
5 915
10 098
7 879
9 222
5 509
7 904
66 877
Bursary Renewals - Full Qualifications
850
423
116
117
193
108
330 72 88
144
1 591
375
103 82
276 73 84
130
1 267
Students Awarded Bursaries - Full Qualifications (New Intake)
1 000 
164 50
125 90 56
149 81 54
894
FETs/UoTs Students supported to gain Workplace Experience
700
158
182
181
238
122
222 48
1 384
109
295
210 83
129
1 372
Second Chance/Matric Re-Write Programme
2 800
300
100
200
750
250
261 27
1 490
128
441
131
244
213
132
3 067
In 2013/14 bursary funds were transferred to NSFAS

29. Programme 5 Sub-Programme EC FS GP KZN LP MP NC NW WC National Total
3-year target EC FS GP
KZN LP MP NC NW WC
National
Total
Unemployed youth placed in the internship programme
1 200
Target
141
129
132
114
140
142
110
152
Achieved
147 75
160 73
368
118 58
113
103 12
1 227
Unemployed youth placed in the learnership programmes
1 650
205
170
195
165
225
144
242
1 646
Unemployed youth trained in part qualifications
500 55 60 32
158 53
298

30. Programme 1
Overall achievement per programme

31. Three-year WSPR submission trend per employer size
This shows that since 2011/12 reporting period:
there has been steady and consistent increase of a number of WSPR submissions by employer size
the ETD Sector is largely made up of small levy paying employers.

32. SDFs trained in the use of the scarce and critical skills guide

33. Distribution of the scarce and critical skills guides

34. Programme 1: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Planned Target
Actual Achievement
To put in place the research agenda and strategy as well as the skills planning systems including monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment frameworks
Learner tracking and tracing study in place
Learner tracking and tracing study is underway
Annual Stakeholder Survey conducted and completed
Annual Stakeholder Survey Report available
Evaluation study conducted (workplace experience, internships, learnerships and apprenticeships)
Evaluation Study Report available

35. Programme 2
Overall achievement per programme

37. Programme 2: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Planned Target
Actual Achievement
To expand the delivery mechanisms and improve the PIVOTAL programmes
25 FET Colleges extend their scope to deliver ETD occupational qualifications
2012/13: 30
2013/14: 10
50 FET Colleges registered as workplace learning sites
To strengthen student liaison services in FET Colleges and enhance career guidance to improve career choices of students in and around the FET Colleges
200 interns trained and placed, 4 per college for student support and career guidance information dissemination
2012/13:200
2014/15: 113

38. Programme 3
Overall achievement per programme

41. Programme 4
Overall achievement per programme

47. Programme 5
Overall achievement per programme

48. UNEMPLOYED Youth Placed on Internships

50. Programme 6
Overall achievement per programme

51. Programme 6: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Five Year Target
Actual Achievement
To provide support to Trade Unions beneficiaries
500
554
To provide support to Political Parties beneficiaries
450
180
To provide support to NPOs beneficiaries
550
684
To provide support to Private Providers through APPETD and non-APPETD
540 50
To provide support to Independent Schools beneficiaries – NAISA
440
228
To Support Trade Unions Institutes
5 institutes 3

52. Programme 6: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Five year Target
Actual Achievement
To provide support to HEIs and HESA 23
To provide support to Research Organisations
100 32
To provide support to SGB beneficiaries
108
To provide support to LIASA 64
To provide support to Teacher Unions beneficiaries
500
1 204

53. Performance against Transformation Goals
Category
Equity Target
Equity Figures 2012/2013
Equity Figures 2013/2014
Percentage
Count
Female
60%
59%
5 917
66%
7 159
PWD 5% 2%
153 4%
427
Youth
48%
4 838
50%
5 368
Rural
4 882
5 342
Black
85%
96%
9 640
98%
10 591
Total Entered
10 072
10 790
ETDP SETA improved its performance in all areas in relation to its equity targets from the 2012/2013 to the 2013/2014 financial years.
The organisation has doubled the support for people living with disabilities.
The SETA continues to strive to achieve its internally set target of 5% on supporting people with disabilities.

54. Total number of learners supported
Total supported =
28 896

55. Programme 7
Overall achievement per programme

56. Programme 7: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Planned Target
Actual Achievement
To ensure the DQP strategy in place
Policies in line with QCTO requirements
Achieved
To ensure the development of nationally standardised assessments
SLA with QCTO as AQP and setting up of assessment centres
SLA as AQP with QCTO is in place
To develop materials for 4 occupational qualifications
Materials developed for occupational qualifications
To ensure accreditation/ extension of scope
100% of applications of new and/or emerging providers’ applications for accreditation or extension of scope are ratified
All applications received and ratified

57. Programme 7: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Planned Target
Actual Achievement
To ensure that registered occupational qualifications are in place
Occupational qualifications developed and completed 4
To process 100% of providers verification applications
100% of learners who complete programmes to receive certificates
13 598 learners certificated on full qualifications
61 215 learners endorsed on Unit Standards based programmes
To verify 100% of providers
100% of providers’ applications received for verification are processed
Applications received and processed

58. Programme 7: Achievements against targets
Strategic Objectives
Planned Target
Actual Achievement
To ensure that the approved RPL strategy is in place
200 learners to pilot RPL (ComDev and ECD Programmes)
Research commissioned to profile the learners for the RPL project – in progress
To establish 2 RPL centres
2 RPL centres are established 2
To process applications for accreditation, extension of scope and learning programme
100% of applications received are processed
All applications received and processed
To support the re-engineering of the ABET sub-sector through the ETDP SETA participation at national level
The ETDP SETA supports the DHET’s ABET sub-sector re-engineering
Research on the establishment of community centres currently underway

59. Successes and challenges

60. Key Successes
Contributed to Improved teaching, learning and administration through teacher development and school administration to make schools work
Supported for FET Colleges to be responsive to the ETD and National Priorities
Contributed to Youth Development for Employability
Two clean audits and an unqualified Audit Report - Demonstration of Good Corporate Governance

61. Challenges experienced …
Introduction of the New Grant Regulations (12 Dec 2012) resulted in the reduction of mandatory grant from  50% to 20%. This had a bearing in the submission of WSPs.
Capping of the budgets – insufficient funds resulting in inability to meet needs of the stakeholders
Challenges with the information management system as a result of ageing systems and capacity constraints
The SETA lifespan – inability to put long term plans in place

62. Thank You.