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AgriSETA
AGRICULTURE SECTOR EDUCATION TRAINING AUTHORITY
QCTO – Quality Council for Trades & Occupations
Occupational Qualifications
The Quality Council for Trades and Occupation is a Quality Council established in 2010 in terms of the Skills Development Act No. 97 of 1997 and mandated to oversee the design, implementation, assessment and certification of all occupational and trade-related qualifications within its sub-framework.
The QCTO is responsible for:
The QCTO is responsible for:
- Establishing and maintaining occupational standards and qualifications
- The quality assurance of occupational standards and qualifications and learning in and for the workplace
- Designing and developing occupational standards and qualifications and submitting them to the SAQA for registration on the NQF
QCTO Policy on Accreditation of Skills Development
AgriSETA Quality Assurance
The Qualifications Development unit within the AgriSETA Quality Assurance department, through its association with the Quality Council for Trades and Occupation (QCTO), has been appointed as both a Development Quality Partner (DQP).
Functions of the Development Quality Partner (DQP)
Development Quality Partner (DQP) means a body delegated by the QCTO to manage the process of developing specific occupational qualifications, curricula and assessment specifications
- Delegation of DQP
- DQP Guide
- Assessment Quality Partner (AQP) Criteria
- Certification
- Development Quality Partner (DQP)
Accreditation
The Department of Higher Education & Training has extended the deadline date for public comment on the National Qualifications Framework Further Amendment Bill to 15 September 2025. The initial deadline date was the 15 June 2025.
Qualifications Development
- Application for the Development of Occupational Qualifications
- Curriculum and Assessment Policy
- Foundational Learning Competence
- AgriSETA Registered Occupation Qualifications
- Transition of Historically Registered Qualifications: Circular 1 of 2017 (OQA & OQM)
- Occupational Certificate : Miller (Exemplar)
- QTCO Circular 2/2022
- Extended Legacy Qualifications extended to June 2026
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Physical Address
AgriSETA House, 529 Belvedere St, Arcadia, 0083
Postal Address
Box 23378, Gezina, 0031
Telephone + 27 (0) 12 301 5600
Fax + 27 (0) 12 325 1677/325 1624
Email info@agriseta.co.za
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