Memorandum from the Parliamentary Office
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 3168
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 28/08/2015
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER 34 OF 2015)
Mrs C Dudley (ACDP) to ask the Minister of Higher Education and Training:
1) Whether he is aware of students who graduated but did not receive their
certificates at the Motheo FET/TVET College in Thaba Nchu between 2008
and 2010;
2) has the specified matter been investigated; if not, why not; if so, what
are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
1) There are no outstanding National Accredited Technical Diploma (NATED)
Report 190/1 certificates, as these are issued within 3 months after the
release of results as per the national policy.
There are however students who did not receive their National Certificate
(Vocational) [NC (V)] certificates at the Thaba Nchu campus of
Motheo Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college for
the period 2008 to 2010. The table below provides details on the number
of outstanding NC (V) certificates:
|Examination cycle|Level 2 |Level 3 |Level 4 |Total |
|200811 |2 |8 |0 |10 |
|200903 |8 |0 |0 |8 |
|200911 |6 |13 |5 |24 |
|201003 |9 |3 |5 |17 |
|201011 |27 |9 |19 |55 |
|Total |52 |33 |29 |114 |
2) Yes. The outstanding NC(V) certificates affect all public TVET and
private colleges and are due to a consolidation error on the examinations
Information Technology (IT) system managed and maintained by the State
Information Technology Agency (SITA). Through the intervention made by my
Director-General and the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and
Training, SITA has sourced additional project management and technical
capacity from an outside IT service provider to eliminate the backlog and
ensure that it does not recur. In accordance with the project plan tabled
to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training in August
2015, all outstanding NC (V) certificates will be available at TVET
college examination centres by January 2016.
The Department is intervening, on behalf of graduates being denied access
to the workplace and/or higher education study programmes due to
outstanding certificates, respectively in the following manner:
⢠Letters of verification are issued on request;
⢠Employers are contacted on behalf of students; and
⢠Higher education institutions are contacted on behalf of students.
Compiler/Contact persons:
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DIRECTOR â GENERAL
STATUS:
DATE:
REPLY TO QUESTION 3168 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED
Dr BE NZIMANDE, MP
MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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