Accreditation - Overview

During the period 01 April 2000 to 31 March 2005 the accreditation policy of the Services SETA was based on the principle of development and capacity building of education and training providers operating within the Services sector.

Education and training providers were given the opportunity to adapt their institutions and methodologies to deliver learning programmes that lead to national, NQF registered Unit Standards and/or Qualifications.

On the 1st September 2004 the new accreditation policy of the Services SETA came into being and was communicated to all providers. According to this policy, SETQAA will only accept and process Letters of Intent to be accredited from providers who have learning programmes that are aligned to registered Unit Standards and/or Qualifications. And Providers who were currently in the system and accredited must endeavour to submit their applications and/or alignment by no later than 15 December 2004. Thereafter no applications will be acknowledged and/or accepted unless the programmes are aligned to registered Unit Standards and/or Qualifications

In December 2004 a Self Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) for re-accreditation was issued to providers who were awarded accreditation during the first 5-year period. The SEQ re-iterated the fact that re-accreditation would ONLY be considered where a provider has learning programmes aligned to registered Unit Standards and/or Qualifications.

Accredited Providers-

- Who are the providers?Providers who have aligned their learning programmes to Registered Unit Standards, conducting training and assessment thereof of the aligned programmes.
- Assessment and/or RPL Assessment Centres only site providers