National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008 (Act 67 of 2008)NoticesPolicy and Criteria for Recognising a Professional Body and Registering of a Professional Designation for the purposes of the National Qualifications Framework Act, Act 67 of 2008 (as amended, September 2020)1. Definitions |
The following definitions are relevant to this P&C for professional bodies:
a. | "Community of expert practitioners" |
means a group of knowledgable or appropriately skilled practitioners in a formalised and well-defined profession or occupation;
b. | "NQF Act" |
means the National Qualifications Framework Act (Act 67 of 2008), as amended;
c. | "Occupational qualification" |
means a qualification associated with a trade, occupation or profession resulting in learning in and for the workplace;
d. | "Part-qualification" |
means an assessed unit of learning that is registered, on the NQF, as part of a qualification;
e. | "Professional body" |
means any statutory or non-statutory body that sets professional standards and registers i n d i v i d u a l expert practitioners in an occupational field;
f. | "Professional designation" |
means a title or status conferred by a professional body in recognition of a person’s expertise and/or right to practise in an occupational field;
g. | "Progression pathway" |
means a hierarchy of two or more related qualifications and/or professional designations that allow for vertical progression within a profession;
h. | "Provider" |
means a legally established institution (public or private) that has been recognised, usually for a particular period of time, by a QC or its appointed agent, as having the capacity or provisional capacity to offer an NQF registered qualification or part-qualification at the required standard; and
i. | "Qualification" |
means a registered national qualification.