Adult Education South Africa

This archive collects together publications, papers, reports and documents on adult education or related topics mainly from South Africa and by South African authors.

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By year:

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Keywords:

accreditation, academic support, adult basic education, adult education, adult educators, adult further education (AFE), adult learning, advocacy, Africanisation, alternative education, assessment, associations, campaign, career guidance, certification, class, colleges, community, community colleges, CLCs (community learning centres), community service, compensatory education, competency, computers, conferences, continuing education, co-operative education, curriculum, democracy, development, disability, distance education, donors, dropout, Eastern Cape, ecology education, educators, ECD (Early Childhood Development), ETDP (Education, Training and Development Practitioner), evaluation, extension lectures, family literacy, finance, FET (Further Education and Training), governance, globalization, health education, higher education, history, HRD (Human Resource Development), human rights, ideology, implementation, IT (Information Technology), KwaZulu, KwaZulu-Natal, language, legislation, libraries, lifelong learning, literacy, management, MIS (Management Information System), materials, media, modularisation, monitoring and evaluation, Natal, NQF (National Qualifications Framework), night schools, non-formal education, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), numeracy, outcomes, PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal), partnerships, people’s education, professional education, plan, projects, practitioners, provision, PALCs (Public Adult Learning Centres), quality asurance, radio, reading, RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning), RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme), research, resources, S&T (Science and Technology), second language education, sex and gender, skills, South Africa, special needs, standards, statistics, students, study skills, TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), teachers, television, training, trainers, unions, visual literacy, voter education, WEA (Workers Educational Association), Western Cape, women, worker education, workplace learning, universities, university extension, youth, YALE (Youth and Adult Learning and Education)

Year

The 2010s

2010

C2 in C3. Thinking about the codification and contextualization of learning in the new South African National Qualifications Framework

Author: Keevy, J.
Date: 2010
Reference: Keevy, J. 2010. C2 in C3. Thinking about the codification and contextualization of learning in the new South African National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority [Paper presented at the SAQA NQF Research Conference 2010]

Description: Describes the modest and pragmatic gains of the NQF against the ambitious original strong transformative purpose, the lessons learned, its gradual migration away from a strong behaviorist and outcomes‐based model to a more constructivist and contextual one.

Keywords: NQF, qualifications, curriculum, certification, assessment, ideology

Draft interim Qualifications and assessment policy framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults: a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF)

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20100226
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2010. Draft interim Qualifications and assessment policy framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults: a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Government Gazette, Number 32987, 26 February 2010

Description: Provides a policy for the General Education and Training Certificatre for ABET, describes its structure, assessment, and a list of the compulsory ("fundamental") and optional ("electives") subjects ("learning areas"), and issues a call for public comment

Keywords: adult basic education, training, NQF, qualifications, curriculum, certification, assessment

Aitchison submission on the Draft Interim Qualifications and Assessment Policy Framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 201003
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2010. Aitchison submission on the Draft
Interim Qualifications and Assessment Policy Framework for General Education and Training Certificate for Adults. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Description: Criticises the draft for not addressing longstanding criticisms of the ABET system, for not also dealing with private, non-state providers, poor understanding of assessment termonology, an unneccesary age qualification

Keywords: adult basic education, qualifications, certification, assessment

Presentation to Portfolio Committee: Education services to offenders

Author: Department of Correctional Services
Date: 20100505
Reference: Department of Correctional Services. 2010. Presentation to Portfolio Committee: Education services to offenders. Pretoria: Department of Correctional Services

Description: Prsentation that briefly describes the mandates for education and training provision to people in prison, what is provided (ECD to babies and toddlers who are with their incarcerated mothers, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, computers use) and some of the challenges to delivery

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, KRG, trainers, adult further education, computers, practitioners

Institutional Management and Governance Minute: 0007/2010

Author: Western Cape Education Department
Date: 2010614
Reference: Western Cape Education Department. 2010. Institutional Management and Governance Minute: 0007/2010. Cape Town: Western Cape Education Department

Description: Describes issues related to the remuneration of Community Centre managers and site-co-ordinators including what data on enrolment and employment and materials is available.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, CLs, PALCs, statistics, governance, finance, Western Cape

Education for All Country Report: South Africa 2010

Author: Department of Basic Education
Date: 2010917
Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2010. Education for All Country Report: South Africa 2010. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education

Description: Has reports on the learning needs of young people and adults, the adult literacy rate, adult basic education and the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, KRG, statistics

Amendments to the General Education and Training Certificate (GETC) - Adult education and Training (ABET): a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF)

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20101126
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2010. Amendments to the General Education and Training Certificate (GETC) - Adult education and Training (ABET): a qualification at level 1 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Government Gazette, Volume 545. Number 33805, 26 November 2010

Description: Adds some subjects ("learning areas") to a previous notice - Notice No. 1173, published in a Government Gazette No. 32793 of 11 December 2009

Keywords: adult basic education, curriculum

Activists within the Academy: The role of prior experience in adult learners' acquisition of postgraduate literacies in a postapartheid South African university

Author: Cooper, L.
Date: 20100830
Reference: Cooper, L. 2010. Activists within the Academy: The role of prior experience in adult learners' acquisition of postgraduate literacies in a postapartheid South African university. Adult Education Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 1, pp. 40-56

Description: A case study from the University of Cape Town of some adult students who were given Recognition of Prior Learning access to a Masters programme in Disability Studies that found that the lecturers' understanding of the learners'"habitus"(their [educational] dispositions and patterns of learning) enabled students' prior experiential knowledge to be tapped as a resource, though they had difficulty in academic writing.

Keywords: universities, RPL

The role of Adult Education in reducing poverty

Author: Preece, J.
Date: 20101208
Reference: Preece, J. 2010. The role of Adult Education in reducing poverty. Brussels: The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA)

Description: Examines the links between adult education and poverty reduction and provides a set of good practice examples as ell as general recommendations

Keywords: adult education, development, literacy, skills,

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2010

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign documents: 2010

Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2010
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2010. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude

Description: This was the third year of operation of the literacy campaign and 609,199 learners were enrolled in 2010. The campaign continued using a number of checks aimed at ensuring that all registered learners are the specific individuals concerned.

Another verification process was undertaken in March 2010 on the retuned LAPS of the 2010 cohort.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa, KRG

2010 Draft KRG Training manual
201001 KRG Update Report January 2010
20100121 KRG presentation to Department of Social Development
201003 Section 40 report on stipends
201005 Draft letter to Mail & Guardian
20100505 Department of Correctional Services, Report to Portfolio Committee
2010 KRG Learner Assessment Portfolio 2010
20100302 KRG workbooks in warehouse (photos)
20100325 KRG staff at DBE, Pretoria (photos)
20100419 Pages from Department of Basic Education Strategic Plan 2010 pp. 43-45
20101027 KRG Report on non payments

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2010/2011

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2010/2011

Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2010/2011
Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2010. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority

Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016).

Starting from late 2008 the process included assessing the learner achievements and authenticating the outcomes of the programme (compared to the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP) benchmark and the NQF's ABET sub-level 1 (not NQF level 1) so that successful learners could receive certain adult basic education credits on SAQA's National Learners' Records Database (NLRD)).

The third checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 31 March to 3 April 2011 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). The workshop continued on 4 and 5 April but dealing with internal Kha Ri Gude matters. In addition some site visits were made to classes in the field.

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG

20100526 Umalusi letter to Minister of Basic Education re KRG quality assurance
20101016 Proposal to SAQAfor KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft
20101119 Site visit KZN Keats Drift
20101127 Site visit KZN Seven Oaks Bhamshela
20101128 Site visit KZN Ulundi
20101222 Proposal to SAQA for KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft 2
20110125 Plan for period January to May 2011 with annotations from Aitchison
20101128 Site visit KZN Ulundi
20110128 Proposal to SAQA for KRG verification 2011 to 2013 draft 3
20101129 Site visit KZN Ozwathini
20101130 Site visit KZN Verulam and Canelands
20101201 Site visit KZN Tugela Ferry Embangweni
20101205 Site visit KZN Umkomaas
20110301 DBE DG letter to SAQA
20110304 Form estimates
20110309 Some issues for April 2011
20110313 Adler to Stickells re administrative matters
20110320 Data sheet 0 Green
20110320 Data sheet 1 White
20110320 Data sheet 2 Blue
20110320 Data sheet 3 Pink
20110322 Kha ri Gude field visit form for facilitator
20110322 Kha Ri Gude field visits guide
20110324 Training guide 2011
20110326 SAQA presentation for moderators and verifiers for 2010 verification
20110330 KRG verification workshop materials
20110331 Data form b Class sets
20110331 KRG verification workshop Warehouse (photos)
20110331 Tally sheet class nos and comments
20110331 The Pink Form coding
20110331-0405 Workshop programme
20110401 Commitment statement
20110401 KRG verification workshop Moderation (photos)
20110402 Kha Ri Gude workshop presentation
20110402 KRG verification workshop Dinner and Certificate awards (photos)
20110404 KRG learners 2010 data distribution (Gerber)
20110404 Some thoughts for the recommendation of the report (Aitchison)
20110404-05 KRG verification workshop (photos)
20110411 Report on KRG Implementation for vear ending 2010/2011 for Portfolio Committee
20110414 KRG verification data capture 2010_Combined (Blueform) (xls file)
20110414 KRG verification data capture 2010_Combined (white form) (xls file)
20110416 Pink Form results for 2010 verification
20110510 Learner numbers and demographics

20110526 SAQA report KRG 2010 final

20110527 Aitchison to Adler and French re changes to draft report
20110608 Briefing on KRG site visits for SAQA Board Meeting (Adler)
20110611 SAQA-KRG co-ordination meeting minutes

2011

On the right and left of the centre: ABET and ECE postgraduate educational research in South Africa, 1995–2004

Author: Rule, P.
Date: 20110228
Reference: Rule, P. 2011. On the right and left of the centre: ABET and
ECE postgraduate educational research in South Africa, 1995–2004. South African Journal of Higher Education, pp. 322-340

Description: Laments the paucity of research on Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) and Early Childhood Education (ECE) in South Africa and explains it as the effect of the marginality of these areas in this study based largely upon 3515 research theses on education from 19 universities

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, ECD, universities, research, history, ideology, statistics

"We Must Believe in Ourselves": Attitudes and Experiences of Adult Learners With Disabilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Authors: Rule, P. and Modipa, T.R.
Date: 20110228
Reference: Rule, P. and Modipa, T.R. 2011. "We Must Believe in Ourselves": Attitudes and Experiences of Adult Learners With Disabilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Adult Education Quarterly, pp. 1-21

Description: This article investigates the attitudes and experiences of adults with disabilities regarding education. It draws on an interactional model of disability and an embodied understanding of cognition as theoretical frames. The study attempted to adopt an emancipatory action research approach that involved persons with disabilities in conceptualizing and conducting the research. It found that adults with disabilities had generally negative experiences of education as children but a strong desire to learn as adults. Involvement in collective learning and action has the potential to transform the body images and self-efficacy of adults with disabilities. The research findings suggest a perspective on adults with disabilities as potentially powerful and resourceful learners and citizens.

Keywords: adult education, disability, research

From ashes to assets

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20110421
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2011. From ashes to assets. Mail & Guardian, 21 April 2011

Description: A clear ten point plan for revitalizing adult education in South Africa

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, universities, governance, KRG, literacy, materials, NQF, skills, qualifications

Readings of rights

Author: Dean, P.
Date: 20110819
Reference: Dean, P. 2011. Readings of rights. Mail & Guardian, 19 August 2011

Description: An advocacy piece for adult literacy provision

Keywords: literacy, NGOs, skills

Open to the flaw: Comparing the different skills required for reading English and isiZulu

Author: Land, S.
Date: 20110825
Reference: Land, S. 2011. Open to the flaw: Comparing the different skills required for reading English and isiZulu. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 19 August 2011

Description: Explores the question of, and a number of hypotheses related to, whether the processes of reading, and the patterns in reading, are similar across languages (in this study, English and Zulu) and their orthographies

Keywords: literacy, language, reading, research,

Militant modesty: Communication and impact in the mission of the NQF

Authors: French, E. and King, M.
Date: 201109
Reference: French, E. and King, M. 2011. Militant modesty: Communication and impact in the mission of the NQF. Y: Z

Description: A personal reflection on a number of ILO symposiums held in Pretoria on the National Qualifications Framework that inter alia deals with communication with and real engagement with stakeholders on the meaning of the NQF and posits an enabling and emancipatory take on the NQF, but note the mismatch between vocational and technical qualifications and their related training offerings, the needs of employers in terms of skills gaps, and the needs of learners in terms of job opportunities.

Keywords: NQF, standards, qualifications, ideology, policy, history, research

All the cattle in the kraal. An overview of Umalusi's research 2003-2011

Author: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training
Date: 201111
Reference: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training. 2011. All the cattle in the kraal. An overview of Umalusi's research 2003-2011. Pretoria: Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training, pp. 41-43

Description: The small section (from a much larger report) relating to adult and adult basic education that describes only two studies, one on the "fundamental" components of general and further education qualifications (done in 2007) and one on the intended and examined curricula of the Gneral and Education and Training Certificate for Adults (done in 2008)

Keywords: NQF, qualifications, curriculum, research, adult education, adult basic education

National qualifications frameworks developed in Anglo-Saxon and French traditions. Considerations for sustainable development in Africa

Authors: Keevy, J, Charraud, A-M., and Allgoo, K.
Date: 20111127-1202
Reference: Keevy, J, Charraud, A-M., and Allgoo, K. 2011. National qualifications frameworks developed in Anglo-Saxon and French traditions. Considerations for sustainable development in Africa. [Paper delivered at the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Triennale on Education and Training in Africa, held at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 27-December 2, 2011]

Description: A comparative study of National Qualifications Frameworks in six African countries, three Francophone, three Anglophone that includes some recommendations including that the borrowing of foreign NQF models to be implemented in education systems in Africa already skewed by colonisation and/or other more recent influences should be replaced by an emphasis on learning from the mistakes and successes made in the English and French contexts - the implementation of NQFs based on African values and functions within societies would permit more appropriate learning processes for Africa.

Keywords: NQF, qualifications

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2011

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2011

Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2011
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2011. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude, Department of Basic Education

Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa, KRG

20110201 Draft KRG response to questions from ZADifference
20110525-26 Distribution of workbooks (photos)
20110707 Hanemann Report on UIL Mission 30 March to 5 April 2011 re KRG
20110713 Class (photos)
20110725 KRG Approval of Stipends
20110812 Pretorius C "We should affirm one another, Mail and Guardian
20110816 KRG Submission to DoE DG 82011b
20110923 National Council of Provinces Question and answer re KRG
20111003 Presentation - KRG Literacy campiagn South Africa (Aitchison)

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2011/2012

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2011/2012

Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2011/2012
Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority

Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016).

The fourth checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 29 March to 1 April 2012 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). In addition data from some site visits to classes conducted throughout South Africa was compared to the LAP results.

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG

2011 Collection of LAPs 2009-2010
20110224 Letter from Adler to Sekgobela re sites sample
20110731 KRG site visit guide (Draft)
20110803 KRG Results from the Home Affairs tests of ID numbers (2011)
20110817 Rationale for verification (Aitchison)
20110910 Guide for site visits (draft)
20110925 Planning of site visits
20111003 Planning of site visits
20111009 KRG site visits virement proposal (draft)
20111010 KRG visitor action checklist
20111011 Site visit sampling and hub procedures
20111018 KRG Visits Task form a
20111018 KRG Visits Task form b
20111021 French Memorandum to SAQA on site visits
20111025 KRG Site visit KGQA1 Senior Visitor TOR
20111025 KRG Site visit KGQA2 Visitor TOR
20111025 KRG site visit KGQA3 Folder Cover and Checklist
20111025 KRG Site visit Visit Record Folder
20111025 KRG Site Visitors Packages
20111027 Planning the KwaZulu-Natal visits
20111107 TOR for contractor doing site visits in KwaZulu-Natal
20111107 Contract and TOR for contractor doing site visits in Eastern Cape
20111107 Contract and TOR for contractor doing site visits in Gauteng, North West and Northern Cape
20111107 Contract and TOR for site visits between SAQA and Hutani Communication Enterprise
20111107 Contract and TORfor site visits with Tembaletu Trust (KZN)
20111119 Aitchison to Elijah Sekgobela re problem sites
20111212 French to Paul Jooste (draft)
20120212 Verification description - Phase February to May 2012 draft update
20120214 KRG Site visit analysis planning
20120218 SAQA KRG Verification analysis process 2
20120220 Time table for Workshop March/April (Draft)
201203 Training guide 2011 verification
20120309 TOR for preparation of site visit records for moderation event
20120322 KRG workshop process update as on Thursday 22 March
20120323 Commitment statement
20120323 Site Visit Correlation Process 2011
20120323 Site visits Description phase Feb 2012 - May 2012 draft update (Adler)
20120327 KRG LAPs in warehouse (photos)
20120329 KRG verification workshop timetable
20120330 Data sheet 2011 site visit correlation
20120330 Guide for moderators and verifiers for 2011 verification
20120330 Melissa King KRG presentation 1 on ABET standards
20120330 Melissa King KRG presentation 2 on quality assurance
20120330 Melissa King Notes for presentation
20120331 KRG Introductory Site Visit presentation
20120331 KRG Site Visit presentation (Baloyi)
20120401KRG verification workshop (dinner and awards) (photos)
20120401 Sample SAQA KRG Verification workshop award certificate
20120511 KRG Literacy Campaign South Africa - verification (Aitchison)
20120512 Melissa King Report to SAQA Board on KRG Quality and Standards

20120521 SAQA KRG Report 2011 final

2012

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2012

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2012

Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2012
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2012. Title. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude

Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa

2012 Adler reference for Bongani Rainmakers
2012 KRG 2007/8 to 2014/5 Financial Year
2012 KRG bridges literacy gap
2012 LAP English 2012
201202 KRG Circular C1 February 2012
20120229 KRG Section 40 report
201203 Budget vs Expenditure SABT Summary
201203 KRG Estimated stipends for 2011
201203 KRG Final Virement
201203 NLRD Report on KRG submission for 2010 [submitted Nov 2011]
201204 Budget vs Expenditure SAB&T Summary
201204 KRG Circular C2 April 201 2
20120327 Minister’s speech 27 March at verification workshop
20120328 Kha Ri Gude 4th quarter report final
20120328 Ramarumo Welcome address to verification workshop
20120330 Presentation on KRG and Quality Assurance
20120330 Presentation on Alignment of ABET Unit Standards SA KRG
20120331 KRG Section 40 Report
20120417 KRG Presentation Draft 2
20120418 Curriculum Management Meeting Memo
20120429 MTEF narrative 201213 to 201415b
20120429 Report 2010-11 for Portfolio Committee
20120803 NLRD data Kha Ri Gude - compare post-2011 load with pre-2011 load
20120803 NLRD Kha Ri Gude analysis - 20120803
20121023 KRG report to DBE branch
20121106 Presentation on KRG to UNESCO Cape Verde (Aitchison)
20121119 Request for lnformation (Number 1] from Auditor General 20121119 20121119 Aitchison draft of a response to Auditor General request
20121128 Presentation from KRG CEO for Minister's meeting with Branch Curriculum

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2012/2013

Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification documents: 2012/2013

Author: South African Qualifications Authority (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2012/2013
Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012/13. Title. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority

Description: From 2008 till 2017 the South African Qualifications Authority engaged in a process to ascertain the integrity of the marking of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) for nine successive cohorts of learners (for the years 2008 to 2016).

The fifth checking of the quality and authenticity of the marking of the LAPs was done at the SAQA controlled workshop held 21 March to 24 March 2013 where a large sample of the LAPs was examined for the quality of the marking (using a unique approach different from the usual moderation of the learner's work). In addition data from 300 site visits to classes conducted throughout South Africa was compared to the LAP results.

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, assessment, standards, NQF, outcomes, monitoring and evaluation, KRG

Community Colleges - 2012

Presentation by Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres to Branch

Author: Community Education and Training Task Team
Date: 20120719
Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Presentation by Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres to Branch. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Outlines the terms of reference of the Task Team, the research methods it used, its contextual analysis, assumptions, the target group for community education, a model for community learning centres and differentiated colleges, some structuring options, and the steps leading to a White Paper

Keywords: community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, CLCs

Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres

Author: Community Education and Training Task Team
Date: 20120904
Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: The report provides recommendations on an institutional model of communiy ducation and training centres based on local research and an international literature survey. It sumarises youth and adult target groups and needs and arugues for a a network of post-school programmes and institutions that are diverse, yet linked, and should have an integrated core curriculum that include communications and numeracy, enabling youth and adults to function in changing communities, a changing world and labour markets, combining formal learning opportunities, vocational and occupational electives, and non-formal and popular education programmes. It proposes a differentiated colleges sector (which would include community colleges) and community learning centres and two institutes - one for Vocational and Continuing Education and one for Adult, Youth Community and Popular Education. It envisages a continuation of the Kha Ri Gude programme to provide various community and social education and soft skills programmes.

Keywords: community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, KRG, CLCs, research

Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Summary

Author: Community Education and Training Task Team
Date: 20120904
Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. Report of the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Summary. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: A very clear summary/condensation of the report

Keywords:community education, community colleges, adult education, non-formal education, policy, plan, KRG, CLCs, research

FET Amendment Bill 2012. Submission from the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres

Author: Community Education and Training Task Team
Date: 20120906
Reference: Community Education and Training Task Team. 2012. FET Amendment Bill 2012. Submission from the Task Team on Community Education and Training Centres. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Notes the recommendations of the Task Team in its Report about necessary legislation, states that legislation would be premature without substantial prior planing of a community education system, that there must be distinction made between a community college and a community learning centre, that the document's use of the term continuing education is incorrect and confusing, and appeals for the restoration of aduklt education units at universities

Keywords: community education, community colleges, continuing education, further education, adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, universities

OSISA/DVV International regional YALE Studies

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Angola

Author: Figueira, S. and Inácio, E.
Date: 2012
Reference: Figueira, S. and Inácio, E. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Angola. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult
education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords:YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Lesotho

Author: Setoi, S.M.
Date: 2012
Reference: Setoi, S.M. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Lesotho. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult
education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords:YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Mozambique

Author: Luis, R.
Date: 2012
Reference: Luis, R. 2012.Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Mozambique. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult
education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Namibia

Author: Shaleyfu, K.
Date: 2012
Reference: Shaleyfu, K. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Namibia. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult
education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Swaziland

Author: Jele, D.
Date: 2012
Reference: Jele, D. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Swaziland. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: Research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Southern Africa. Overview of a five nation study

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 2012
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Youth and Adult Learning and Education in Southern Africa. Overview of a five nation study. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and DVV International

Description: This is the overview summary of the research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International). The research was intended to create an up-to-date map of the current state of youth and adult education in five southern African countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland – by looking at the policies, legislation and institutional frameworks governing the sector as well as the funding of, and stakeholders involved in, youth and adult
education services. The study aimed to highlight the critical gaps and provide recommendations to help address them.

Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

Presentation on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20121105
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Presentation on Youth and Adult Education in Southern Africa. [Presentation to Regional expert meeting for the follow-up of Confintea VI in Africa: increasing the participation of youth and adults in learning and education, held in Praia, Cap Verde, 5-8 November 2012

Description: A overview summary of the research study commissioned by OSISA in collaboration with the Institut für Internationale Zusammernarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (dvv International) and its recommendations.

Keywords: YALE, adult education, literacy, adult basic education, adult further education, non-formal education, development, research

What is the current state of adult (il)illiteracy in South Africa?

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20120501
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. What is the current state of adult (il)illiteracy in South Africa? Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education

Description: Summary of literacy statistics and a critical analysis of their accuracy together with an estimation of the likelihood of illiteracy being significant reduced by 2015

Keywords: literacy, statistics, adult basic education, KRG, research

Key readings: the South African NQF 1995 -2011

Author: Various
Date: 201202
Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2012. Key readings: the South African NQF 1995 -2011. SAQA Bulletin, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2012

Description: A key collection of articles on the South African National Qualifications Framework and its history of developoment:

Human Sciences Research Council Ways of seeing the National Qualifications Framework: an introduction
Ministerial Committee for Development Work on the NQF Discussion document: Lifelong learning through a National Qualifications Framework. Report of the Ministerial Committee for Development Work on the NQF
Samuel BA lsaacs Making the NQF road by walking reflectively, accountably and boldly
Samuel BA lsaacs and Mokubung Nkomo South Africa's National Qualifications Framework: reflections in the Seventh Year of the SAQA
Jonathan D. Jansen Do good ideas matter?
David Raffe National Qualifications Frameworks as integrated qualifications
frameworks
Shirley Walters "Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect": Building communities of trust in South Africa
Tom Schuller Recognising learning and its outcomes
Samuel BA lsaacs Response to Dr Jim Gallacher’s paper, "National qualifications frameworks: instruments of change or agents of change?"
Ben Parker and Ken Harley The NQF as a socially inclusive and cohesive system: communities of practice and trust
James Keevy and Joe Samuels A critical reflection on current qualifications frameworks and possible future directions in Africa
Shirley Walters and Samuel BA lsaacs National Qualifications Frameworks: Insights from South Africa
Samuel BA lsaacs Lessons from the South African National Qualifications Framework
Heidi Bolton and James Keevy How are we doing in relation to NQF objectives? Measuring the impact of the South African NQF
Trevor Coombe End note

Keywords: NQF, qualifications, history, ideology

The development of national standards for adult educators in Namibia

Author: Ellis, J. and Richardson, B.H.
Date: 20120429
Reference: X. 2012.The development of national standards for adult educators in Namibia. International Review of Education, Volume 58, 2012, pp. 375-385

Description: The process of developing national competency standards for adult educators, finalised in 2011, found, via 30 focus groups, that the work of an adult educator is more complex and demanding than had previously been appreciated and required competencies that were categorised as (1) Knowledge as an adult educator, (2) Practice as an adult educator, (3) Relationships as an adult educator and (4) Ethics and professionalism
as an adult educator.

Keywords: adult education, educators, practitioners, competency, standards, research, Namibia

Background paper on multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20120903
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Background paper on multi-purpose
community learning spaces and centres. [Background Paper for GRALE II]

Description: Examines the definitions, concepts and categories of Community Education or learning Centres and of Community Education and poses questions to be asked of any purported community learning centre before providing a summary of surveys of such centres in South Africa and Botswana (which found veery few actual multi-purpose community lerning centres)

Keywords: CLCs, community education, non-formal education, Botswana, South Africa, PALCs, NGOs

Where are we now with literacy in South Africa?

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20121026
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Where are we now with literacy in South Africa?. [Paper delivered at the Jozi Book Fair, 2012 in Johannesburg]

Description: An impassioned critique of the adult education failures in the new South Africa buttressed by literacy statistics, an explanation for the decline in radical literacy work, an examination of the lack of a reading culture and the incapacity of universities to teach reading teachers, a quick summary of scientific knowledge of reading instruction and the recommendations arising from it and a final diatribe: ""We have now generations who have been cognitively stunted because of a massive failure in our culture and our educational provision. It is a kind of cognitive genocide of our population."

Keywords: literacy, reading, universities, adult education, curriculum, materials, ideology

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2012

The Kha Ri Gude/SAQA verification: 2012/2013

2013

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2013

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2013

Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2013
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2013. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude

Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa

2013 Danie plus Bongani Rainmaker KRG LAP return statistics
201303 Adler, Aitchison and French SAQA report on KRG 2012 LAPs Verification final
20130105 Towards some strategic priorities for 2013
20130108 KRG Statistical abstract for 2012
20130206 KRG ECD intervention
20130620 DBE TOR for KRG evaluation 201309 to 201404
20130715 Draft 1TOR for impact evaluation version 15 July 2013
20130715 Draft 1 TOR for situational analysis version 15 July 2013
20131212 KRG McKay Presentation

Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training

Author: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training
Date: 2013
Reference: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training. 2013. Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training. Port Elizabeth: Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Description: Profile of a centre that focusses on democracy, citizenship and social justice as central to post school education and training in South Africa Africa

Keywords: adult education, community education, community colleges, non-formal education, development, NGOs. universities, research, curriculum, TVET, trade unions

An overview of education policy change in post-apartheid South Africa

Authors: Sayed, Y. and Kanjee, A.
Date: 2013
Reference: Sayed, Y. and Kanjee, A. 2013. An overview of education policy change in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Sayed, Y., Kanjee, A., and Nkomo, M. (Eds). 2013. The search for quality education in post-apartheid South Africa: interventions to improve learning and teaching. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council Press, pp. 5-38

Description: A useful survey of policy documents and legislation (and a list of all of them) but virtually silent on adult or adult basic education and literacy.

Keywords: policy, legislation, adult education, adult basic education, literacy

ALF News Volume 1 Issue 1

Author: Adult learning Network
Date: 201304
Reference: Adult learning Network. 2013. ALF News Volume 1 Issue 1. Cape Town: Adult learning Network, Western Cape

Description: Newsletter of the non-profit organization based in the Western Cape that describes the work of the organization as : "non-formal learning, strongly supporting and advocating the REFLECT approach, social justice, and Lifelong Learning and poverty alleviation. We partner and network with a number of organisations, in both civil society and government. We have been involved in planning and running Adult Learners’ Week events for a number of years. We also run plenary meetings and workshops for educators and adult learners on topics of relevance to them, as well as educator forums and adult and youth conferences.

Keywords: adult education, community education, non-formal education, NGOs, idelogy

GETC ABET Level 4 not a matric

Author: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training (Umalusi)
Date: 20130108
Reference: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training. 2013. GETC ABET Level 4 not a matric. Pretoria: Council for quality assurance in general and further education and training

Description: Press statement seeking to clear up the confusion between ABET level 4 (on NQF level 1, the level of the General Education and Training Certificate (ABET)) and NQF level 4 (the level of the National Senior Certificate (the so-called matric)

Keywords: qualifications, NQF, assessment

Cabinet agrees on plan to catch school dropouts

Author: Govender, P.
Date: 2013
Reference: Govender, P. 2013. Cabinet agrees on plan to catch school dropouts. Sunday Times 7 April 2013

Description: Report on Cabinet approval of the ministerial task team report (of 2012, but Gazetted on 5 April 2023) on community education and training centres and which lists some of its recommendations and notes its potential costs

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, adult further education, qualifications, community learning centres (CLCs), community colleges, policy, plan, youth, finance

Regulations on the assessment process and procedures for Adult Education and Training (AET) National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level 1

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20130515
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2013. Regulations on the assessment process and procedures for Adult Education and Training (AET) National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level 1. Government Gazette, Volume 575, Number 36463

Description: Technical details on the assessment process and procedures including a list of all the component Unit Standards of the qualification (fundamental, core and elective)

Keywords: NQF, adult basic education, assessment, qualifications

The right to adult and community education

Authors: Baatjes, B. and Baatjes, I.
Date: 20130829
Reference: Baatjes, B. and Baatjes, I. 2013. The right to adult and community education. Johannesburg: The Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg

Description: Booklet explaining the constitutional rights to basic education with explanatory material on definitions, examples of provision, etc.

Keywords: adult education, community education, policy, ideology

Getting the job done: What actually happens after an international action plan has been approved?

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20131206
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2013. Getting the job done: What actually happens after an international action plan has been approved? Adult Education and Development, Number 80, pp. 18-21

Description: A reflection on the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa research study on Youth and Adult Education in five Southern African countries: Angola (Figueri and Inácio, 2012), Lesotho (Setoi, 2012), Mozambique (Luis, 2012), Namibia (Shaleyfu, 2012), and Swaziland (Jele, 2012), and a synthesis report (Aitchison, 2012) and what happened subsequent to their publication by way of implemention of recommendations (which echoed those of the Belém Framework for Action of 2009)

Keywords: policy, plan, implementation, evaluation

2014

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2014

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2014

Author: Kha Ri Gude or Auditor General (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2014
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2014. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude
Auditor General. 2014. Pretoria: Auditor General

Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa

20140111 KRG Statistics - finance and disabled 2008-2012
20140203 Auditor General Management Report 3 February 2014 with comments by McKay
20140203 Auditor General Management Report of 3 February 2014 with comments by Aitchison
20140206 Auditor General 2nd KRG Steering Committee minutes
20140325 Auditor General Meeting with current and previous CEOs of the Kha Ri Gude campaign
20140326 KRG Response to the draft Management Report of the Auditor-General Draft 2
20140400 Auditor General on Dropout with comments
20140403 KRG Response to the draft Management Report of the Auditor-General Draft
20140404 Auditor General Request no 6 for info for KRG performance audit
20140516 NLRD Kha Ri Gude analysis - 2014 0516
20140602 Auditor General Communication of audit finding no 1 of 2014
20140606 Auditor General Communication of performance audit finding no 4 of 2014
20140611 Auditor General Communication of performance audit findings no 5 of 2014
20140707 KRG response to Auditor General audit query 5
201408 Auditor General Final Management Report
20140819 Auditor General Annexure A re Corrective measures instituted or envisaged
20140822 KRG Memo from Ramarumo to DDG refinal audit version 2 (4)
20140825 Adler, Aitchison and French SAQA report on KRG verification 2013 final
20141022 KRG Terms of Reference Formative Evaluation of KRG workbooks
20141121 KRG Answer to Parliamentary question 2871 on Kha Ri Gude and AET from Bozzoli
AG Annexure - Discrepancies between actual and completed attendance with Aitchison comments
AG Annexure - Kha Ri Gude Progression with Aitchison comments
AG Annexure - Kha Ri Gude Progression
AG Annexure - KRG overall achievement with Aitchison comments
AG Annexure - Recruitment of Learners and Volunteer Educators with comments
KRG Bongani Rainmaker KRG LAP return statistics 2009 - 2013
KRG Learners and under age learners 2008 - 2013
SAnews.gov.za (Tswane)

General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) - 2014

General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) documents - 2014

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2014
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: The General Education and Training Certificate for Adults (GETCA) is a qualification at Level 1 of the National Qualifications Framework (equivalent to Grade 9 in General schooling) that aims to provide evidence that adult students are equipped with a sufficiently substantial basis of discipline-based knowledge, skills and values to enhance meaningful social, political and economic participation, to form a basis for further and/or more specialist learning e.g. the National Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA), and possibly to enhance the likelihood of employment.

Keywords: adult basic education, qualifications, assessment, curriculum, NQF

20140307 DHET Call for comments on new GETCA (Government Gazette)
201403 Aitchison comments on new GETCA (Government Gazette)
201410 DHET Draft National Training Strategy for GETCA and NASCA educators 2015-2016
201411 DHET Draft Implementation guidelines for Assessment for AET NQF 1
20141103 Umalusi Open Letter on GETC-ABET Level 4

National Adult Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) - 2014

National Adult Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) documents - 2014

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2014
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: The National Senior Certificate for Adults (NASCA) is a National Certificate at Level 4 on the General and Further Education and Training Qualifications Sub-framework of the National Qualifications Framework. It was conceptualised as a qualification aimed at adult learners rather than schoolhildren. The NASCA provides a general educational pathway for adults. Its focus, through broad, discipline-based curricula, is to build a reliable general education underpinned by the necessary cognitive proficiencies to support further study.

Keywords: adult further education, qualifications, assessment, curriculum, NQF

20140620 Burroughs Mail and Guardian Adults to get a crack at a new matric 20140902 DHET Umalusi NASCA policy
201410 DHET Draft National Training Strategy for GETCA and NASCA educators 2015-2016
201411 DHET NASCA Mathematics subject statement
2014 DHET NASCA conduct of examinations regulations

Community Colleges - 2014

Circulars on function shift

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20140318-0800
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Circulars on function shift. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Circulars relating to the shift, scheduled for finalisation by 1 April 2015, of control of state adult education provision (in the Public Adult Learning Centres) and TVET Colleges from the provincial departments of education to the national Department of Hiugher Education and Training

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, policy, provision, governance, finance, PALCs, CLCs, Community colleges

Attendance register for Briefing Session with the Service Provider on the Policy on Community Colleges (PCC) Evaluation

Author: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
Date: 20140612
Reference: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation. 2019. Attendance register for Briefing Session with the Service Provider on the Policy on Community Colleges (PCC) Evaluation. Pretoria: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation

Description: Attendance at a briefing session on the evaluation of the policy on Community Colleges

Keywords: policy, evaluation, community colleges

Proclamation of the commencement of the Further Education and Training Colleges

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20141008
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. Proclamation of the commencement of the Further Education and Training Colleges Amendment Act, 2013, Government Gazette, Volume 592, Number 38072

Description: Formal proclamation

Keywords: TVET, FET, legislation

Establishment of Community College Councils

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 201411
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Establishment of Community College Councils. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Draft government notice on setting up interim councils for community colleges and the appointment of members of Council and electing members of the Academic Board

Keywords: policy, community colleges, governance, HRD

Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on the merging of PALCs

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20141107
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on the merging of PALCs. Government Gazette, Volume 593, Number 38158

Description: Provides for a supposed consultation about how, as functions move from Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the current P ALCs will be deemed to be Community Colleges, and, as soon as this is effected, all the Community Colleges will be merged into nine Community Colleges, one per province.

Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs

Draft National Policy on Community Colleges

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20141107
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Draft National Policy on Community Colleges. Government Gazette, Volume 593, Number 38158

Description: Provides background and rationale for the creation of community colleges but fails to give substance to the Task team report of 2012 or to provide for an institutional structure to manage and improve provision in a multitude of existing adult education centres and simply replicates an inappropriate TVET college model

Keywords: policy, plan, community colleges, PALCs, adult education, adult basic education, community education, non-formal education, governance, finance, HRD, curriculum, PALCs, CLCs

Ministerial Committee to review the funding frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2014

Ministerial Committee to review the funding frameworksfor Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning centre documents - 2014

Author: Ministerial Committee to review the funding frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres
Date: 2014
Reference: Ministerial Committee to review the funding frameworks for Further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2014. . Pretoria: Department of HigherEducation and Training

Description: The Ministerial Committee

Keywords: TVET, FET, adult education, PALCs, evaluation, policy, governance, finance

20140128 SARN Skype Meeting

South African REFLECT Network (SARN) - 2014

South African REFLECT Network (SARN) documents - 2014

Author: South African REFLECT Network (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2014
Reference: South African REFLECT Network. 2014. Johannesburg: South African REFLECT Network

Description: The South Africa REFLECT Network (SARN) was formally established in July 2005 and evolved out of an informal network of Reflect practitioners who had been exchanging experiences of Reflect practice since 2000, with a growing concern to ensure HIV/AIDS and women's rights were mainstreamed into adult education and development work. The Network sought to ensure quality implementation of Reflect practice, to pool expertise,
strengthen learning, and to generate information that can change practices which sustain and/or create disadvantage and inequality. The Network formally closed after funding ceased.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, HIV-AIDS, sex and gender

20140128 SARN Skype Meeting
20140219 SARN Project Planning Matrix 2014
20140315 SARN Report to Board Jan-Feb 2014
20140331 SARN Proposal for new partnership between SARN, CCELAT and EE
20140507 SARN Skype Meeting 7May 2014
20140527 SARN Skype Meeting 27 May 2014
20140530 SARN Cash Flow Projection May 2014
20140614 SARN Creating a cohort of REFLECT trainers and continuing to propagate the REFLECT approach
20140614 SARN Strategic workshop agenda
20140614 SARN Strategic review workshop notes
20140614-15 SARN Workshop 14 June 2014
20140615 SARN Board Meeting
20140615 SARN Board statement to DVV representative
20140618 SARN letter to Farrell Hunter of DVV
20140B06 SARN Report to Board June-July 2014
20140925 SARN Financial Report - Jan-Aug 2014
20141106 SARN Report to Board Oct - Nov 2014
20141107 SARN resolution re office 2014

Seven stories, the last not ended

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 2013
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2013. Seven stories, the last not ended. Fine Print, Volume 36, Number 3, pp. 31-33

Description: An engaging update on South Africa's ongoing struggles for a better deal for adult literacy and basic education, making use of seven supposed archetypal story plots: Overcoming the monster, Rags to riches, Quest, Voyages and return, Tragedy, Comedy/Farce, and Rebirth

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plans, ideology, history

Profile of adult education in West and Southern Africa

Author: Biao, I.
Date: 2013
Reference: Biao, I. 2014. Profile of adult education in West and Southern Africa. Gaberone, Botswana: University of Botswana

Description: Study of six West and Southern African countries' adult education profile using six categories: political will, adult education programmes, personnel, learners, and research

Keywords: adult education, policies, plan, legislation, provision, practitioners, research, statistics, universities, research,

Needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired: an educational study of Bosele

Author: Sekgobela, E.M.
Date: 2014
Reference: Sekgobela, E.M. 2014. Needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired: an educational study of Bosele. Polokwane: University of Limpopo [Master of Education Mini-dissertation]

Description: A case study of research about establishing the needs and assets of a public adult learning centre for the visually impaired that discovered a number of inadequacies in the provision (lack of up to date materials and professional support to pratitioners, lack of mapping of available assets

Keywords: disability, PALC, materials, practitioners, research

Grounding adult education research in rural areas: reflections on the development of a research program at the University of Limpopo in South Africa

Authors: Jacques Zeelen, J., Rampedi, M., and van der Linden, J.
Date: 2014
Reference: X. 2013. Grounding adult education research in rural areas: reflections on the development of a research program at the University of
Limpopo in South Africa, Adult Education Quarterly, 2014, Volume 64, Number 1, pp. 20–38

Description: Describes areas of adult education research at the University of Limpopo: adult education needs assessment and community development, young adults at risk, adult health education, policy and implementation issues, globalization, social exclusion, and lifelong learning

Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, development, universities, research

Throwing good money after bad: the barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators

Author: Blom, R.
Date: 20140713
Reference: Blom, R. 2014. Throwing good money after bad: the barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators. [Paper presented at the Further Education Research Association Inaugural International Research Conference, Friday 11 July – Sunday, 13 July, 2014]

Description: Argues that the state proposing policy and conceptualising qualifications for vocational educators may not be the most urgent, nor the most effective, interventions in the short to medium term, compared to the non-academic, the non-subject matter, barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators.

Keywords: FET, TVET, policy, qualifications, practitioners, universities

Draft Minutes of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 12 September 2014

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20140910-12
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Draft Minutes of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 11 September 2014. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: The AET Internal Task Team was established based on the recommendations made by the Community Education and Training Colleges (CETC) Task Team. The minutes of the meeting deal technical details of the Annual Performance Plan, the Function shift of PALCs from provincial to national control, an update on Community Education and Training Policy, the identificationof sites for Community Education and Training Centres, Quarterly reporting, Design evaluation, the Funding framework, an update on Kha Ri Gude and the absorption of learner into adult education programmes, updates on the NASCA, the Senior Certificate, and the GETCA, Curriculum support workshops and Educator qualification policy, and Educator contracts

Keywords: policy, plan, governance, legislation, curriculum, finance, qualifications, educators, evaluation

Adult Education and Training HEDCOM sub-committee meeting

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 20141201-02
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2014. Adult Education and Training HEDCOM sub-committee meeting. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: The agenda for the meeting of the adult education and training sub-committee of HEDCOM (the Committee of Heads of [Provincial Departments [of Education]) includes a large set of annexures: Circulars on Function Shift, Draft Policy on Community Colleges, Consultation with Centre Governing Bodies on Merging of PALCs, Establishment of Community College Councils, Proclamation of the Further Education and Training Collges Act of 2013, NASCA NQF Level 4 Draft Subject Statement - Mathematics, Draft Implementation Guidelines for Regulations on Assessment Process and Procedures for AET NQF 1, NASCA Conduct of Exams Regulations, Draft National Strategic/ Plan for GETCA and NASCA Educators 2015/16, Policy for the National Senior Certificate, and the Draft Minutes of the meeting of the Adult Education and Training Internal Task Team Meeting held on 10 - 11 September 2014

Keywords: policy, plan, governance, legislation, curriculum, assessment, finance, qualifications, educators, evaluation

Assessment of non-formal adult education and training centres'enabling environments for employment and poverty reducation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Author: Mayombe, C.
Date: 201411
Reference: Mayombe, C. 2014. Assessment of non-formal adult education and training centres'enabling environments for employment and poverty reducation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Pretoria: University of Pretoria [Phd thesis]

Description: A study, prompted by the reality that graduates of the programmes run in the state's Public Adult Learning Centres had little impact on the employability, found that, though there were policies, plans and regulations to create enabling environments to foster skills in the labour market, at the PALC level there were weak linkages with essential post-training support, community resources, public goods and services which could enable them to access employment. PALCs needed to focus more on Further Education programmes, on self-employment in income generating environments and that PALC managers should should establish strong institutional linkages with community leaders, puhlic agencies and private sectors from the beginning of the training programme

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, further education, community education, KwaZulu-Natal, development, training, educators, trainers, practitioners, PALCs

Education for All 2014 Country Progress Report

Author: Department of Basic Education
Date: 201412
Reference: Department of Basic Education. 2014. Education for All 2014 Country Progress Report. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education

Description: Has reports on the learning needs of young people and adults, the adult literacy rate, adult basic education and the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, KRG, statistics

2015

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2015

Kha Ri Gude documents - 2015

Author: Kha Ri Gude (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 2015
Reference: Kha Ri Gude. 2015. Pretoria: Kha Ri Gude

Description: The Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign was set up as a result of a 2006 report and subsequent planning by a Ministerial Committee on Literacy, then managed in the Department of Education (later the Department of Basic Education). Learners were enrolled from 2008 to 2016.

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, provision, research, finance, policy, plan, South Africa

2015 Draft Letter re Auditor General query on entry level of candidates
201507 Romm and Dichaba Assessing the KRG Mass Literacy campaign A developmental evaluation
20150709 Hanemann Lifelong literacy Some trends and issues
20150730 McKay Measuring and monitoring in the South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign
20151123 Adler, Aitchison and French SAQA report on KRG LAP verification 2015

Ministerial Committee to review the funding frameworks for further Education and Training Colleges and Adult Learning Centres - 2015

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Author: X
Date: 2019
Reference: X. 2019. A. Y: Z

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2016

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2016

2017

Kha Ri Gude adult literacy campaign - 2017

2018

Not grasping the nettle: Dilemmas in creating and funding a new institutional environment for adult, community, and technical and vocational education and training institutions

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 2018
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2018. Not grasping the nettle: Dilemmas in creating and funding a new institutional environment for adult, community, and technical and vocational education and training institutions. Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2018, pp. 1-12

Description: Outlines the failure to construct a viable adult and community education system in South Africa (in spite of constitutional guarantees, policy promises, initial enthusiasm for adult basic education and the well run Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign) and evaluates, with some skepticism, the likelihood of the recommendations of the Report of the Commission of inquiry into Higher education and training of 2017 making an impact

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, skills, implementation, legislation, higher education, KRG, history

Implementation Evaluation of the National Qualifications Framework Act 67 of 2008

Authors: DNA Economics, Mzabalazo Advisory Services, and Social Surveys Africa
Date: 2018
Reference: DNA Economics, Mzabalazo Advisory Services, and Social Surveys Africa. 2018. Implementation Evaluation of the National Qualifications Framework Act 67 of 2008. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: An examination of the implementation of the NQF Act of 2008 from 2009 to 2016, including its associated policies and regulations, relative to its goals and objectives, that identifies the successes and challenges in the implementation of the Act and offers 17 recommendations (with many sub-recommendations regarding improvements to the implementation of Act in the future

Keywords: NQF, standards, qualifications, research, policy, implementation, plan, monitoring and evaluation, TVET, RPL

Qualification Profile of Lecturers Employed in Public Community Education and Training Colleges

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 2018
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2018. Qualification Profile of Lecturers Employed in Public Community Education and Training Colleges. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: A needs analysis for the development of qualifications aligned to the Policy
on Minimum Requirement for Programmes Leading to Qualifications for Educators and Lecturers in Adult Community Education and Training (DHET, 2015) by determining the current qualifications staus of the existing staff.

A seemingly identical version of the report was published in 2019.

Keywords: community colleges, statistics, research, policy, practitioners, teachers, trainers, HRD, professional education

Are we country of cognitive genocide?

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 20180226
Reference: Aitchison, J,J.W. 2018. Are we country of cognitive genocide? The Conversation

Description: The full version of an article, South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe, published in The Conversation on 26 February 2018

Keywords: literacy, reading, universities, practitioners

Department of Higher Education and Training Annual Report 2017/18

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 201809
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2018. Annual Report 2017/18. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Annual Report which as some information on adult education and the Community Education and Training Colleges scattered through its pages (see pp. 12, 18-19, 21, 27-28, , 31, 43, 45, 105, 107-108, 123, 129, 172, 178)

Keywords: adult education, community colleges, adult basic education, policy, finance, practitioners, HRD

2019

Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project. Review of the Project 2019

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 2019
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2019. Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project. Review of the Project 2019. Sandton: Volkswagon Community Trust

Description: A review of the Volkswagen Literacy Legacy Project run in the community adjacent to its Uitenhage plant that deals mainly with literacy development among schoolchildren but has an important analysis of the basics of learning to read and why schools and projects are failing to develop proficient readers (whicxh eventually becaome an adult education problem)

Keywords: literacy, reading, research, assessment

The struggle of adult educators in South Africa continues

Authors: Baatjes, I. and Baatjes, B.
Date: 2019
Reference: Baatjes, I. and Baatjes, B. 2019. The struggle of adult educators in South Africa continues. Adult Education and Development, Number 86, pp. 46-60

Description: Professionalisation of adult educators in South Africa has a relatively short history dating back to the mid-1990s. In the South African context, professionalisation is integral to the formalisation of adult education which has taken root in post-apartheid South Africa. Formal qualifications such as certificates, diplomas and degrees, based on national standards registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), are key elements of the professionalisation discourse. This article reflects on the professionalisation process in South Africa, and identifies the struggles and limitations which it has entailed.

Keywords: adult education, practitioners, profesional develoopment, NQF, qualifications, certification, history

Learning in the mother tongue: examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign

Authors: Hanemann, U. and McKay, V.I.
Date: 2019
Reference: Hanemann, U. and McKay, V.I. 2019. Learning in the mother tongue: examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign. International Review of Education/Journal of Lifelong learning, Volune 65, pp. 351-387

Description: This is an analysis of the reading results of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign's 2011 cohort of a total of 485,941 participants aimed at identifying variations between the learners’ achievements across the eleven official South African languages and their socio-economic and participation profiles. In addition these findings were matched against local language experts' assessment of the level of difficulty with regard to literacy learning of each of the languages. The authors found that good quality learning material alone cannot make up for inexperienced and under-trained educators and poor literate environments and contend that future literacy programmes will have to take existing hierarchies and inequalities among language groups into account and devise differentiated strategies to achieve parity of
learning.

Keywords: literacy, KRG, language, reading, research

Communities in Action: The Participation of Communities in Two South African Literacy Campaigns

Author: MacKay, V.I.
Date: 2019
Reference: MacKay, V.I. 2019. Communities in Action: The Participation of Communities in Two South African Literacy Campaigns. In: I. Eloff (Ed.)., Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 23- 44

Description: Description of the South African Literacy Initiative and the Kha Ri
Gude Mass Literacy Campaign and their contribution to the enhancement
of the quality of life of vulnerable communities and an argument that the social capital
and the web of interconnections emerging from the social movement context of the literacy campaigns provided a network of agency and resilience to the desperateness
faced by communities.

Keywords: commmunity, development, literacy, KRG

Guguletu T. Ndebele

Author: The NGO Whisperer
Date: 201907
Reference: The NGO Whisperer. 2019. Guguletu T. Ndebele. The NGO Whisperer

Description: A nice piece of puffery on Gugu Ndebele, previously of the Department of Education and of the Department of Higher Education and Training

Keywords: puffery

The Community Education and Training College System: National Plan for the Implementation of the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training System

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 201908
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2019. The Community Education and Training College System: National Plan for the Implementation of the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training System. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: A set of nine proposals that are mainly aspirational with little detail as to how actual plans would work

Keywords: community colleges, policy, plan, CLCs, adult education, community, skills, practitioners, finance, statistics

Secured, not connected: South Africa’s Adult Education system

Authors: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Land, S.J.
Date: 201912
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Land, S.J. 2019. Secured, not connected: South Africa’s Adult Education system. Journal of Education, Issue 77, pp. 138-155

Description: This paper tracks the history of the adult education system through its historical blunders and shortcomings that ends with the hope of the far-reaching benefits inherent in government’s new plan for the post school system. The authors argue that there have been decades of neglect, or, at best, token support for the country’s adult education system, and they look at how the system could be revitalised, both in terms of minimal requirements for immediate basic improvement as well as for a more radical and forward looking transformation of the system. The new 2019 state plan for the Community Education and Training College System includes long needed major overhauls that must be made if adults’ right to effective and relevant education is to be finally realised.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, legislation, statistics, history, community colleges, PALCs, CLCs

Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019

Author: Department of Higher Education and Training
Date: 202103
Reference: Department of Higher Education and Training. 2021. Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2019. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training

Description: Has a section (pp. 49-58) on Community Education and Training Colleges though there are several caveats made about its accuracy and that policy targets were not met

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, statistics, educators, assessment, curriculum

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