University of South Africa UNISA NQF level

University of South Africa UNISA NQF level

University of South Africa UNISA NQF level – The Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF), which was promulgated in October 2007 (Government Gazette No 30353 of 5 October 2007), provided for the establishment of a single qualifications framework for higher education to facilitate the development of a single national coordinated higher education system. The revised HEQSF was promulgated in August 2013 as approved by the Minister of Higher Education and Training (Notice 1040 of 2012; Government Gazette No. 36003 of 14 December 2012) in terms of the National Qualifications Act, 2008 (Act No. 67 0f 2008) and as contemplated in the Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997).

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The implementation of the HEQF since 1 January 2009 required that all new programmes submitted to the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) for accreditation had to be compliant with the HEQF and the HEQSF as revised. The revised HEQSF, in line with the previous framework (HEQF), provides the basis for integrating all higher education qualifications into the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). It provides a basis for standards development and quality assurance.

The HEQSF recognises a range of qualification types such as a certificate, a diploma or a degree that are pegged to specific NQF levels. The NQF level and its level descriptors form the outer and most generic layer in terms of the knowledge and skills that learners are required to acquire, integrate and demonstrate (applied competence) at each level of cognitive complexity on the HEQSF.

In 2008 the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Act No 67 replaced the South African Qualifications Authority Act No 58 of 1995. The NQF Act brought changes in particular the levels of the NQF. There are now 10 levels on the NQF. NQF levels of all qualifications changed from the 8-level framework to the 10- level framework in line with this legislation as depicted on the table below:

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