ESETA

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ESETA

• Presentation to Parliamentary Portfolio
  Committee on Minerals and Energy

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• Presenter
• Shukumani Shakes Mapaya
• Chief Executive Officer Energy Sector Education
  and Training Authority (ESETA)

Date 04/09/2001
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Content of presentation

• Introduction
• Mandate of ESETA
• SSP and Grants
• ESETA targets
• Learnerships
• ETQA
• Milestones

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Content of presentation cont.

• Regional Committees
• Challenges
• Expected role(s) of Minerals and Energy Dept.
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Skill Development Act.
• Skills Development Levies Act.
• SAQA Act.

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Mandate of ESETA

• Ensure that the sector receives quality education
  and training
• Accredit providers
• Develop Sector Skill Plan
• Register SDFs
• Accept/rejects WSPs
• Grants to constituent employers

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Mandate cont.

• Develop and establish Learnerships
• Register Skills Programmes
• Market the NSDS
• Align to the Human Resources Development Strategy
  for South Africa

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Grant payments and Sector Skills Plan (SSP)

• Disbursed Grants A and B to employers
• Developed an SSP document
• Annual update of the SSP
• To be reviewed after five years

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ESETA Targets

• By 2005 ESETA will have
• 32 of workers in the sector as having no ABET to
  be registered for NQF 1
• Variety of learnerships for at least 50 of
  employees
• To pay Grants to 100 of employers with lt 150
  employers
• To pay Grants to 70 of SMMEs in the sector
• Identify and develop 20 learnerships on the NQF

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ESETA Targets cont.

• Accredited 80 of providers
• Implement 10 learnerships at different stages
• Allocate 80 of Discretionary Grants to SMMEs
• Implement 100 of NSF project
• To measure the impact of NSF (70)
• Take 3200 learners through learnerships
• Ensure that those who have completed their
  learnerships (1600) are employed,in full time
  study or in Social Development Programes

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New Funding Regulations 2001/02

• Marked increase of mandatory grants
• Year 2001/2002
• 15 for WSP
• 50 for Workplace Skills report
• Year 2002/2003
• 15 for WSP
• 45 for Workplace skills report

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New Funding Regulations cont.

• Mandatory grants(65 of the Levy paid)
• Discretionary Grants
• Learnership grants
• Skills programme grants
• Apprenticeship grants
• Implementation of SSP grants
• NB Only applicable if ESETA has residual
• funds
• To be determined by ESETA

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Learnership.

• Learnerships identified for development
• General Certificate in Electrical
• FET Certificate Electrical Elementary
• FET Certificate Electrical Intermediate
• FET Certificate Electrical Advanced
• ABET
• Status of Unit Standards and Qualifications
• Learnership registration

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ETQA Status

• Accredited as an ETQA by SAQA.
• QMS draft developed.
• Investors in people are currently being
  incorporated into QMS.
• Accreditation criteria standardized amongst
  engineering related SETAs
• Assessor criteria developed.
• Project plan to implement QMS developed.

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ETQA status Cont

• Letter of intent to establish a SGB for renewable
  energy submitted to SAQA.
• Unit standard and qualifications for power plant
  operations developed and registered.
• Letter to all training providers finalized to
  invite accreditation applications.

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Regions

• Process of regional committees establishment
• Three regional offices
• Decentralize Education Training and
  Development(ETD)
• Regional Committees to influence ETD
• Ownership of processes

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Milestones

• Among the top ten accredited by SAQA (ETQA)
• SSP approved
• Business Plan approved
• Learnerships identified
• Stakeholder participation

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Challenges

• SMMES
• Education and Training Providers
• Finding workplaces for learners
• Provincial linkages with DoL
• Research and Development
• NSDS Targets
• Funding of projects
• Payments of Levies by Minerals Energy Dept.

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ESETA and Minerals and Energy

• Update each other on developments
• Work together on identified projects
• e.g.Danida Capacity Building Project,Energizatio
  n of rural areas
• Funding? Projects such as Research (skills on Gas
  and Renewable Energy) , learnerships development
  and Marketing, bringing unemployed, school
  leavers and youth to the energy sector

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• Enkosi
• Thank you
• Goed Dankie
• Ngiyabonga