FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
18 February 2020
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) completed the registration of 6 268 new realigned qualifications to the 10-level National Qualifications Framework (NQF) by the deadline of 31 December 2019. Thus, higher education institutions and students respectively, can offer and pursue these qualifications knowing that they have the SAQA “stamp of…
South Africa is the first SADC country to complete the alignment of its National Qualifications Framework to the SADC Qualifications Framework.
This places the South African NQF in a unique position to pilot the proposed African Continental Qualifications Framework when it becomes available in 2022.
Both the SADC Qualifications Framework and the African Continental Qualifications Framework share…
VERIFICATION LETTERS ISSUED BY SAQA
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) stopped verifying South African issued tertiary qualifications, both public and private higher education institutions, with effect from 29 November 2019. The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) took over this function with effect from 1 December 2019. The original verification letter, as issued…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6 February 2020
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) tasked SAQA on 1 December 2019 to verify the qualifications of graduates who want to work or study overseas. SAQA put measures in place to verify all the qualifications it receives in the shortest possible time.
The turnaround time is 20 working days as the process now includes verifying whether the…
The November 2019 special edition of the SAQA Update is now available. It covers the NQF 21st Anniversary Celebrations and displays our splendid performance in the last financial year. It also shows how we have been advancing higher education quality and movement across the African continent.
