Accreditation: means the certification, usually for a particular period of time, of a person, a body or an institution as having the capacity to fulfil a particular function in the quality assurance system set up by the Council.

Act: means the Pharmacy Act, 53 of 1974.

Approval: means the certification, usually for a particular period of time, of a person, a body or an institution as having the capacity, in terms of the criteria determined and published by Council, to deliver a learning programme which culminates in pharmacy-related and registered National Qualifications Framework (NQF) standards or qualifications. Council shall, in terms of the Act, approve providers that are accredited by another Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) body approved by relevant legislation.

Assessment: means the process of collecting evidence of students’ work to measure and make judgments about the achievement or non-achievement of specified standards and/or qualifications.

Assessor: means a person qualified to assess academic performance of students against specified pharmacy-related standards and qualifications and includes persons registered as such with the Council.

Certificate of approval: means, in the case of a provider, a certificate issued by Council to a person or institution that complies with the criteria determined and published by Council for the approval of providers; in the case of a tutor, a certificate issued by Council to a person approved as a tutor in terms of the Regulations relating to pharmacy education and training; and in the case of pharmacy premises, a certificate issued by Council to a pharmacy approved in terms of regulation 36 of the Regulations relating to pharmacy education and training.

Council: means the South African Pharmacy Council.

Credit accumulation1: means the process whereby learners are able to register learning outcomes achieved in one programme at one date and have them counted towards the full programme at a later date.

Credit transfer2: means the process whereby learners are able to register learning outcomes achieved in one programme at one date and have them counted towards another programme at a later date.

CHE: means the Council on Higher Education.

DHET: means the Department of Higher Education and Training.

Exit level outcome (ELO): means the education and training outcomes prescribed in annexures to the regulations for the various categories of persons, for purposes of registration  of the Act.

Full-time equivalent: means a measure applied to calculate student numbers.

GCP: means Good Clinical Practice.

GMP: means Good Manufacturing Practice as published by the South African Health Products Regulatory Agency (SAHPRA – formerly known as MCC, the Medicines Control Council – from time to time.

GPE: means Good Pharmacy Education Standards.

GPP: means Rules Relating to Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) herein referred to as ‘rules’.

GWP: means rules and guidelines to Good Wholesale Practice.

GDP: means rules and guidelines to Good Distribution Practice.

HET Provider: means a provider of Higher Education and Training (may be public or private sector).

Institution: means universities, organisations, private higher education institutions.

Moderator: means a person qualified to moderate academic performance of students against specified pharmacy-related standards and qualifications and includes persons registered as such with the Council.

Monitoring: means the continuous process to review quality. Monitoring has a formative emphasis. Feedback from the monitoring process will incorporate recommendations and thus contribute directly to quality improvement. Monitoring can take place through scheduled or unscheduled site visits.

NQF: means the National Qualifications Framework.

Pharmacist: means a natural person registered as such in terms of the Act.

Pharmacist Intern: means a natural person registered as such in terms of the Act.

Pharmacy Student: means a natural person registered as such in terms of the Act.

Pharmacy Technician: means a natural person registered as such in terms of the Act.

Pharmacy Technician Trainee: means a natural person undertaking training as a learner at Level 6.

PQM: means Programme and Qualification Mix.

Primary Focus: means the activity or objective within the pharmacy sector upon which an institution or body concentrates its efforts.

Provider: means a provider accredited/approved by Council to deliver learning programmes which culminate in pharmacy-related standards or qualifications and which manages the assessment thereof.

Regulations: means the Regulations relating to pharmacy education and training made in terms of the Act, published under Government Notice No. R.1156 of 20 November 2000.

School: means the unit within an organisation which is responsible for pharmacy education and training, whether it is a formal ‘school’ or not.

Senior Lecturer Equivalent: means a measure applied to calculate staffing requirements.

SOP: means standard operating procedure.

Supervisor: means the person who is designated to supervise a learner during a period of work-based learning at a specific site.

Tutor: means a pharmacist, approved and registered as such by Council, to supervise the internship of a pharmacist intern or the traineeship of pharmacy support personnel as determined by Council from time to time.

Work-Based Learning (WBL) means the working in a pharmacy by a pharmacy technician (student), under the direct personal supervision of a tutor at a pharmacy approved by Council for purposes of such training.

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1Note: In a full credit accumulation and transfer (CAT) system the above two processes are integrated so that a credit which is accumulated within one subsystem may first have been transferred from another subsystem. DHET and CHE apply some limitations to these processes.

2 Note: In a full credit accumulation and transfer (CAT) system the above two processes are integrated so that a credit which is accumulated within one subsystem may first have been transferred from another subsystem. DHET and CHE apply some limitations to these processes.