National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008 (Act No. 67 of 2008)NoticesOccupational Qualifications Sub-Framework Policy10. Qualification Descriptors |
| 10.1 | The QCTO occupational qualifications as per Ministerial Determination in Government Notice 1391 published in Gazette No. 44031 of 24 December 2020 will be registered from Levels 1 to 8 of South Africa’s 10-level NQF. |
| 10.2 | Part Qualifications will be registered at any level of the NQF. |
| 10.3 | The South African NQF Level Descriptors provide coherence for applied competences and learning outcomes in qualifications and part-qualifications, at particular levels of complexity; they provide guidelines for differentiating the increasing levels of complexity, for qualification development and delivery, for assessment, and for international comparability. |
| 10.4 | Ten categories are used in the NQF Level Descriptors, to describe the applied competences at the 10 NQF levels. The 10 categories of competence at each level are: |
| (a) | scope of knowledge, |
| (b) | knowledge literacy; |
| (c) | method and procedure; |
| (d) | problem-solving; |
| (e) | ethics and professional practice; |
| (f) | accessing, processing and managing information; |
| (g) | producing and communicating information; |
| (h) | understanding systems and context; |
| (i) | managing learning; and |
| (j) | accountability. |