Call for Submissions and Hearings on: Higher Education Laws Amendment Bill [B24 – 2010] Skills Development Levies Amendment Bill [B25 – 2010] Skills Development Levies Amendment Bill [B25 – 2010]

Staff Reporter

12 AUG 2010, 16:16

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HAVE YOUR SAY

Call for Submissions and Hearings on:
Higher Education Laws Amendment Bill [B24 – 2010] Skills Development Levies Amendment Bill [B25 – 2010]Higher Education and Training Laws Amendment Bill [B26 – 2010]

The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training invites stakeholders and
interested parties to submit written submissions on the Higher Education Laws Amendment Bill [B24 – 2010], Skills Development Levies Amendment Bill [B25 – 2010] and Higher Education and Training Laws Amendment Bill [B26 – 2010].

The purpose of the Higher Education Laws Amendment Bill [B24 – 2010] is to: Amend the Higher Education Act, 1997, so as to amend certain definitions

To ensure that all higher
education programmes offered in South Africa by a foreign juristic person are registered on
the National Qualifications Framework

To ensure that higher education institutions may offer a degree, diploma or certificate only if it is registered on the National Qualifications
Framework. The Skills Development Act, 1998, so as to amend certain definitions

To provide for the appointment of the chief executive officer of the QCTO and for the
transfer to and appointment of staff to the QCTO

To further regulate the composition of the
QCTO. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme Act, 1999, so as to amend certain
definitions. The National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008, so as to amend a definition
and delete another

To amend the application of the Act in order

To require that all qualifications offered in the Republic are registered on the National Qualifications
Framework

To remove references in the said Act to the Minister of Labour; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

The purpose of the Skills Development Levies Bill [B25 – 2010]is to: To amend the Skills Development Levies Act, 1999, so as to amend the definitions of ”Director-General” and
”Minister”; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

The purpose of the Higher Education Laws and Training Bill [B26 – 2010] is to: Amend the Adult Basic Education and Training Act, 2000, so as to amend certain definitions

To make provision for the employment of educators at public centres by inserting provisions in the said Act with regard to employers of educators, salaries and other conditions of service of educators, the educator establishment, powers of employers, appointments and the filling of
posts, the transfer of educators, the secondment of educators, the retirement of educators, the
discharge of educators, incapacity and misconduct and the performance of other work by
educators

To provide for transitional arrangements with regard to public centres

To make provision for the determination of national education policy for public centres, for directive principles of national education policy, for consultation on policy and legislation, for the
publication of national education policy and for the monitoring and evaluation of adult
education and training

To provide for quality assurance in respect of the qualifications
offered by public and private centres
The Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006, so as to amend certain definitions

To make provision for the determination of
national education policy for colleges, for directive principles of national education policy,
for consultation on policy and legislation, for the publication of national education policy and for the monitoring and evaluation of further education and training

To make provision
for the Council of Education Ministers and the Heads of Education Departments Committee
and for their administrative functions

To provide for transitional arrangements with regard
to colleges

To provide for quality assurance in respect of the qualifications offered by colleges

To provide for matters connected therewith.

Public hearings on all Bills will be conducted at Parliament on Tuesday 31 August 2010 and
Wednesday 1 September 2010. Submissions must reach Anele Kabingesi, Committee Secretary, Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, 3rd Floor, 90 Plein Street, Cape Town 8000 by no later than Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 12:00. Please indicate your interest in making a verbal presentation.

Enquiries/copy of Bill: Mr Anele Kabingesi tel: 021 403-3760 or cell 083 412 1585 or fax
086 570 7078 or e-mail: akabingesi@parliament.gov.za or on the Parliamentary website
www.parliament.gov.za

Issued by: Mr M Fransman, MP and Chairperson : Portfolio Committee on Higher Education
and Training.

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