1. Faculty of Humanities/School of Education Technology and Vocational Education
HEDS: Teaching and Learning with Technology
Faculty of Humanities/School of Education
Technology and Vocational Education
Role of universities in supporting a demand-led skills system:a case of cet colleges vocational programmes
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DIP ACET

2. Outline BACKGROUND TUT DEVELOPMENT OF CET COLLEGE QUALIFICATION
Faculty of Humanities/School of Education Technology and Vocational Education
Outline
Faculty of Humanities/School of Education
Technology and Vocational Education
BACKGROUND
TUT DEVELOPMENT OF CET COLLEGE QUALIFICATION
ADV DIP ACETT SUBJECTS /MODULES
PROGRAMME DESIGN ANDCREDIT STRUCTURE
GAPS IDENTIFIED
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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ADV DIP:TVT

3. Background
Technological advancement is a major driver of the economic growth and has raised living standards enormously (though unevenly) across the globe. Digital technologies radically transform the structure of organisations and employment models
Technological changes challenges educational systems to embrace and adopt TVET to provide occupational skills for employability.
Trends towards employer demands and entrepreneual opportunity
Failure to focus on skills at colleges = Inequality
4IR changes skills demand
WBL accelerate economic recovery
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4. New jobs, requiring new skills, are created in all skills subsectors e
New jobs, requiring new skills, are created in all skills subsectors e.g manufacturing, mining, service sector industries.
Governments, industries and society continue failing, as in the past to make, important choices about how to re-skill and transition workforces into the future.
In the knowledge economy, employability is directly related to relevant TVET
Skills mismatches and misallignement hinder the return to full employment and slow economic recovery (Puri, 2012).
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5. The supply of sustainable occupational skills is central to economic growth and development in South Africa.
“it is what teachers know, do and care about which is very powerful in [the] learning equation”. The principle of teaching and learning by doing and making enable learners and students to know and apply the knowledge in various context including workplaces (Moghamsi, 2016)
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6. Tut development of cet college qualification
Adv Dip ACETT
entry-level initial professional preparation of CET college educators/lecturers
Assumes specific depth of knowledge/skills, WIL experience in vocational subjects
Vocational pedagogy and didactics/Methods
Dip ACET
professionally and academically competent educators and lecturers
specific depth and specialization of knowledge of occupation, practical skills and workplace learning
Vocational pedagogy /didacics and Occupational skills development
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ADV DIP:TVT

7. Adv dip acett : subjects/modules
SUBJECT METHODOLOGY – ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FORMAL SPECIALISATION
Accounting
Afrikaans
Agricultural Management Practice
Agricultural Sciences
Agricultural Technology
Business Management
Economics & Management Sciences
Engineering Graphics and Design
English
Geography
History
IsiXhosa
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8. Adv dip modules
SUBJECT METHODOLOGY – ONE OF THE FOLLOWING informal specialization
Arts and Crafts
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Building construction
Civil services
Clothing and Textiles
Construction carpentry and Roof work
Cosmetology
Decor and Catering
Electrical infrastructure and construction
Small scale manufacturing
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ADV DIP:TVT

9. PROGRAMME DESIGN CREDIT STRUCTURE FOR THE ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TEACHING AT TUT: 2018
MODULE
CESM
NQF
Compulsory / Elective
SAQA CREDITS
Academic Literacy and Life Skills
071401 5 C 10
Adult and Community Education Management 4
071101 7 15
Adult and Community Education Studies 4A
070107
Adult and Community Education Studies 4B
College Based Learning WIL 4A (4 weeks)
071003 8
College Based Learning WIL 4B (4 weeks)
Curriculum and Instruction 4: Formal ACET Subject specialization* (choose one subject specialization)
070101 E 12
Curriculum and Instruction 4: Informal ACET Subject specialization* (choose one subject specialization)
ICT literacy
714401 2
Inclusive Education
071409
Industry Based Learning WIL 4 (2 weeks)
Language of Learning and Teaching: English
071411 3
LoCC: (Choose one of the following:
Afrikaans / IsiXhosa / IsiZulu / / Sepedi / Sesotho / Setswana / Tshivenda / Xitsonga)
Teaching, Leading and Researching in Adult and Community Education and Training Teaching: Formal ACET Subject specialization *: 4 (choose one subject specialization)
0707
Teaching, Leading and Researching in Adult and Community Education and Training Teaching: Informal ACET Subject specialization *: 4 (choose one subject specialization)
TOTAL CREDITS ON NQF LEVEL 5 17
TOTAL CREDITS ON NQF LEVEL 7
120
TOTAL CREDITS OF AdvDip (Adult and Community Education and Training Teaching)
137
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10. Gaps identified Majority of CET educators are from ABET centres
Lack vocational knowledge and skills, no WIL experience
Poor digital technological literacy
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11. Conclusion and recommendations
Informal occupational skills development for CLC educators
CLC educators are ready to be reskilled and upskilled in vocational subjects
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12. Thank you Ke a leboga Dankie Conclusion
Faculty of Humanities/School of Education Technology and Vocational Education
Faculty of Humanities/School of Education
Technology and Vocational Education
Conclusion
Thank you
Ke a leboga
Dankie
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ADV DIP:TVT