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 CETA – Construction Education and Training Authority.
 FASSET – Financial and Accounting Services Sector Education and
Training Authority.

1.12 National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS).
 This strategy aims to equip unskilled people with an employable skill.
 There is a special focus on training people with disabilities in order to make
them employable.
 The Human Resources Development Strategy aims to develop and
improve skills of workers through workplace skills plans and to encourage
employers to use the workplace as a learning environment.
 It emphasises partnerships between employers, public education
institutions, private training providers and SETAs.
 It also emphasises youth training to alleviate unemployment.
 It also aims at reducing inequalities based on race, class, gender and
disabilities. It focuses on the need to develop skills for rural development.
 It aligns with government policies such as the New Growth Path led by the
Economic Development Department and the Industrial Policy Action Plan
led by the Department of Trade and Industry.
 The NSDS encourages and supports cooperatives and small enterprises.

1.13 Human Resources Development Strategy for South Africa.
 This deals with human resources development involving preschool, school
and post-school education, as well as labour markets and industry.
 The 2010 to 2030 strategies include:
 Access to quality early childhood development.
 Eradication of adult illiteracy.
 People remaining in education and training until the age of 18 years.
 People having access to employment-focused education and training
opportunities.
 Equality in education and training in terms of race, gender, disability and
geographic location.
 Both the employed and the unemployed have access to education and
training.

1.14 The National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
 This Framework provides for a system of credits that learners receive when
they complete learnerships.
 It enables people to choose how they want to qualify for a career using
different paths and moving from one qualification to another.
 It redresses past discrimination by giving those who did not have formal
education a chance to obtain a recognised qualification.
 The NQF ten levels are:

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