South Africas education and training landscape is undergoing its most massive overhaul in over a decade. This is after the South African Qualifications Authority SAQA removed more than 1 100 outdated legacy qualifications from the national register.
Authorities say this is aimed to phase out some old courses and realign skills development with a modern, rapidly shifting job market .
"We need to move on with the times as well. Theres a demand of future jobs, your AI, your greening, your gas energy transition. So, the system has to be ready as well. We have the occupation space, where quality council for trade and occupation plays in NQF level 1 to 8 which is mainly around colleges, TVET colleges and some of the, what they call community colleges. So, in that space, we are talking about 1 475 qualifications that were calling the pre-2009 online that need to be reviewed. And some of them, they are in some places, some qualifications have been introduced, have been implemented," says SAQA Chief Operating Officer Makaphela Makhafola.
