Learnerships and Skills Development

Global Bits THUTA Aims to promote the development of skills of the South African workforce.

What is a learnership?
Learnerships are paraprofessional and vocational education and training progammes. They combine theory and practice and culminate in a qualification that is registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). A person who successfully completes a learnership will have a qualification that signals occupational competence and which is recognised

The need for comprehensive resources on learnerships

The learnership system is a key component of South Africa’s education and training landscape, and it will become the central pillar of national, sectoral and workplace skills development strategies over the next five years. As more and more employers and training providers recognise the benefits of learnerships, there is an increasing need for services and practical guidance on how to implement learnerships in the real world of work.

Financial incentives for implementing learnerships In order to encourage employers and training institutions to participate in learnerships, the Government has introduced substantial financial benefits for implementing learnerships. The Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) use money from the Skills Levies to pay special learnership grants to employers as well as allowances to unemployed learners.

In addition, a tax incentive of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) enables employers to deduct between R35, 000.00 and R50, 000.00 per year from their taxable income for every learner on a learnership. Globalbits Thuta offers the following learnership implementation and skills development services.

Learnership management :

Assisting Oracle clients with planning, preparation and implementing learnerships using the following three phased approach:

  • Firstly assisting Oracle clients with the very important planning process of developing an overall organisational strategy for implementing learnerships, thereby ensuring that learnerships and skills programmes are integrated into the organisations’ people development processes
  • Secondly, assisting with the preparation that has to be done at the training provider and in the workplace to ensure orderly and successful implementation, i.e. the development of the Learnership Implementation Plan, the recruitment and selection of employed and unemployed learners, as well as the implementation budget and how to benefit from the SETA grants and tax deductions.
  • The final phase, roll-out of implementation focuses on the actual implementation of the learnership: the facilitation of learning by the training institution i.e. Global BITS THUTA and the experiential learning component in the workplace i.e. the Oracle client. The formative and summative assessments, as well as the recording and reporting of learner achievements.

Alignment services

Aligning of Oracle training to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF)

Facilitation services

Delivery of Oracle IT training which follows outcomes based education principles

Assessment Services

  • Design and development of assessment tools
  • Electronic assessment of IT skills
  • Determine the training needs of your organization by assessing individual job competencies and ascertaining where additional training is required.
  • Measure the effectiveness of training by delivering pre and post-training assessments
  • Monitor individual performance and recording results in personal development plans (PDP)
  • Create assessments as part of your interviewing screening process, ensuring consistent questions are asked, less time is spent in screening candidates and answers are easily comparable
  • Conduct online surveys for client, learner or customer profiling

Moderation Services

  • Portfolio of evidence moderation of the following Information Technology qualifications:
    • 48872 National Certificate: Information Technology (Systems Development) NQF L5
    • 48573 National Certificate: Information Technology: Systems Support NQF L5
    • 24294 National Certificate: Information Technology: Systems Development NQF L4
    • 24293 National Certificate: Information Technology: Technical Support NQF L4
  • Producing ISETT SETA moderation reports for the above qualifications
  • Assessment tool moderation for the above qualifications