SASSETA must in accordance with any requirements that may be prescribed:
9.1 |
develop a sector skills plan within the framework of the national skills development strategy; |
9.2 |
implement its sector skills plan by— |
9.2.1 |
establishing learnerships; |
9.2.2 |
approving work-place skills plans; |
9.2.3 |
allocating grants in the prescribed manner and in accordance with any prescribed standards and criteria to employers, education and training providers and workers; |
9.2.4 |
monitoring education and training provision to the sector, |
9.3 |
promote learnerships by— |
9.3.1 |
identifying workplaces in the sector for practical work experience; |
9.3.2 |
supporting the development of learning materials; |
9.3.3 |
improving the facilitation of learning; and |
9.3.4 |
assisting in the conclusion of learnership agreements; |
9.4 |
register learnership agreements; |
9.5 |
perform the functions of an education and training Quality assurance body as provided in the South African Qualifications Authority Act and relevant regulations; |
9.6 |
when required to do so, collect the skills development levies and disburse the levies allocated to it in terms of sections 8(3)(b) and 9(b) of the Skills Development Levies Act; |
9.7 |
liaise with the National Skills Authority on— |
9.7.1 |
the national skills development policy; |
9.7.2 |
the national skills development strategy; and |
9.7.3 |
SASSETA'S sector skills plan; |
9.8 |
submit to the Director-General: |
9.8.1 |
any budgets, reports and financial statements on SASSETA's income and expenditure that it is required to prepare in terms of the Public Finance Management Act; and |
9.8.2 |
plans and reports on the implementation of SASSETA's sector skills plan and service level agreement; |
9.9 |
liaise with the employment services of the Department and any education body established under any law regulating education in the Republic to improve information— |
9.9.1 |
about employment opportunities; and |
9.9.2 |
between education and training providers and the labour market; |
9.10 |
subject to section 14 of the Act, appoint staff necessary for the performance of its functions; |
9.11 |
promote the national standard established in terms of section 30B of the Act; |
9.12 |
conclude a service level agreement for each financial year, with the Director-General concerning— |
9.12.1 |
SASSETA's performance of its functions in terms of the Act and the national skills development strategy; |
9.12.2 |
SASSETA's annual business plan; and |
9.12.3 |
any assistance that the Director-General is to provide to SASSETA in order to enable it to perform its functions; |
9.13 |
perform any other duties imposed by the Ad or the Skills Development Levies Act or consistent with the purposes of the Act; and |
9.14 |
perform its functions in accordance with the Act, the Skills Development Levies Act and this constitution. |