Learning Programmes
Learning programmes refer to programmes inclusive of a structured work experience component and these are in a form of a Learnership, Apprenticeship, Skills Programme, Internship and any other prescribed set of learning offerings which include a structured work experience.
Definitions of Workplace Based Interventions
Interventions | Definitions | TETA APP Terminology | |
1. | Apprenticeship | Means a period of workplace based learning culminating in an occupational qualification for a listed trade. | Apprenticeship |
2. | Learnerships | Means a period of workplace-based learning culminating in an occupational qualification or part qualification. | Learnerships |
3. | Internship for the “N” Diploma | A period of workplace-based learning undertaken as part of the requirement for the ‘’N” Diploma. | TVET WIL |
4. | Student internship: Category A | A period of workplace-based learning undertaken as part of the requirement for the Diploma, National Diploma, Higher certificate or Advanced Certificate as a vocational qualification stipulated in the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF) | HEI WIL |
5. | Student internship: Category B | A period of workplace-based learning undertaken as part of the requirement for a professional qualification. | |
6. | Student internship: Category C | A period of workplace-based learning undertaken as part of the requirement for the Occupational Qualifications of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO). | Occupational Qualifications |
7. | Student Internship | A period of workplace-based learning for a person who is enrolled at an education and training institution for a SAQA registered qualification and may include vacation work. | |
8. | Graduate Internship | A period of workplace-based learning for the purpose of allowing a person who has completed a post-school qualification to gain workplace experience or even exposure to enhance competence and/or employability. This may include academic staff with existing qualifications that need industrial exposure or experience. | Internship |
9. | Candidacy | A period of workplace-based learning undertaken by a graduate as part of the requirement for registration as a professional in the required professional designation as stipulated by ta professional body | Candidacy |