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| Your future in Pipeline Gas |
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Unit Standards & Qualifications |
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Over the years very little has been done as far as specific training in the gas field. The net result is that often people with little knowledge about safety and dangers involved in the design, installation and maintenance, entered the market. |
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| The gas industry, of which SAPGA is part and parcel recently started to look at developing unit standards to train a range of disciplines to satisfy the needs of the stakeholders in pipeline gas environment. |
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A question often raised is “what is the difference between a qualification and a unit standard”? The answer to this is that unit standards are the building blocks which together can build up a qualification. At the end of a course or skills program a learner will achieve one or more selected unit standards and over time these standards collectively will culminate into a new qualification. |
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| Learnership |
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| Another question that comes to mind is “what is a learnership”? A learnership is a organised, high quality on-the-job training program. It enables a learner to become accredited at a certain profession, skill or qualification. |
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| At present a closer look at the requirements from the industry as to what skills and knowledge by the individual learners will satisfy these needs. As these topics are identified it will be developed into unit standards and registered with various authorities to become part of an NQF qualification. |
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| The current position of the Gas Industry standards development group is that the NQF level 2 unit standards is in it’s final stage of approval (this is a entry level for qualifications in the gas industry.) The next level NQF 3 will be finalised before the end of Dec 06. Once these unit standards are in place they will be developed and registered with the Chemical Industry Education and Training Authority (CHIETA). |
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| If all goes as planned all the appropriative modules should be in place by July 2007. |
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| Further development will be supplied as we progress into the future. |
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