SETAS FORUM MEETING

The SETA Landscape Report provides insights into aligning strategic plans, assessing funding impacts, and addressing challenges in skills development. It aims to enhance collaboration between colleges and Funding SETAs, facilitating training on new skills, and optimizing opportunities for colleges. The report also highlights the need for clearer mandates and better funding alignment in the skills landscape.

• Education
• Skills Development
• Funding SETAs
• Challenges
• Strategic Planning

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1. 1 2025/02/21 SETA Landscape Report SETAS FORUM MEETING Presenter: Prof MDM Phutsisi President: SAPCO Date: 07 March 2023 Venue: Premier Hotel Midrand

2. 2 2025/02/21 SETA Landscape Report Specific Objectives Align the Strategic plans of Colleges to those of Funding SETAs (I.e. The Skills KPA) Determine the impact of SETA interventions in all college by assessing the past and future funding value injected in all the college and also assessing the level of skills imparted Alignment of funds between SETAs and Colleges Facilitate the training on the new Skills Landscape Challenges experienced by province

3. 3 2025/02/21 OVERALL AIM AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE SETA LANDSCAPE The NSDP addresses problems and opportunities in the skills landscape that were identified in a number of processes, they include the need to outline the clearer mandate and role for SETAs for the longer term, the need of better alignment of funding, planning and monitoring mechanisms, and the reduction of multiple accountabilities The overall objective of SAPCO is to align the strategic planning of all TVETS skills plan with those of the Funding SETAs and to further determine the overall impact the SETA funding in the last medium term revenue and expenditure framework. That will also assess the skills base that the SETA has contributed to all colleges and the impact thereof

4. 4 2025/02/21 SETA Landscape Report Questions to Colleges What are some of the challenges or constraints that you have experienced in engaging with or working with SETA s? Do you have examples of effective working partnerships and the outcomes that have been achieved? What enabled this success? Given the new roles for SETA s, what opportunities are there for your college? What will you need to do to make the most of these opportunities? What are the key businesses in your region? What linkages do you have/could you have with business? All participants were provided with handout packs that captured the key information which had been shared. Participants were encouraged to share their understanding with colleagues at their respective colleges.

5. 5 2025/02/21 SETA Landscape Report What are some of the challenges or constraints you have experienced? The release of responses from the SETA's and their responses is very slow including their verification process There are delays in payments Information from the SETAs is not accessible There is no consistency in benefits and stipends received by learners. There is no advocacy from the SETAs. There is no feedback if the application has been turned down There is a general breakdown in communication and information is delayed or not shared timeously Colleges need to look for adverts in a newspaper and then bid; there is no direct line of communication to colleges Accreditation requirements are onerous and colleges do not have the funding to refurbish technical workshops and infrastructure Some SETA representatives at Colleges are very stretched, needs to be responsive to businesses in the area as well Do not receive feedback after accreditation site visits which are often conducted by a private agency. Private providers pay these agencies to assist them with accreditation applications

6. 6 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: WESTCOL COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL - SETAs to automatically allocate funds for the N6 (WIL CHALLENGES - Difference stipends from SETAs. Can we have uniform stipend for the same learning intervention Intervention) based on each college enrolment as all N6 students need opportunity to do experiential learning to - The college will apply for example (for 100 learners and only qualify for National N Diploma. Allocation can be done allocated 20 or lesser). without application as it is a requirement for the N6 students - Private organisations are awarded more funding by SETAs, and to do experiential learning to qualify for the Diploma. they do not have learners or not even training institutions. They - Can the Public TVET colleges allocation be distributed will then approach TVET college to avail learners. fairly amongst colleges against the private companies that - Can Work Integrated Learning Intervention be allocated to are not in the training and development sector. TVET Colleges not private institutions with no students to ensure - SETA to avail us of a list of the companies in our area that TVET college students can apply for Diploma and graduate registered with them. - Applications are submitted and no response is received. - Some SETAs require TVET colleges to have Service - SETAs will do allocation, and vetting be done, from there no Agreement with their levy paying workplace/companies feedback is given even if the college make follow up. If vetting is before the college can submit the applications. It is a done, it gives expectation that the mentioned allocation will be challenge for the college to know who is registered with granted. SETA or not. College approached companies on the same sector, many of them are not registered with SETAs and not - Can all SETA's have the same system as other systems are not interested to register. The application submitted would not user-friendly. be approved if the workplace/companies are not registered - Availability of First Tranche before the commencement of the on their NSDMS (SETA system). learning intervention. It creates a problem if the funding payment - SETAs to give incentive back to companies who have is delayed due to the long process of approval before the funds partnership with TVET Colleges and are willing to host can be released by SETA.

7. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 7 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: KING HINTSA COLLEGE King Hintsa SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES The College is having several partnerships with more 7 - However, the College wishes to bring the following matters to SACPO: SETAs, namely: - Late payment of funds by SETAs, this affects the students as they need to rent, transport to work and buy their groceries ETDP SETA, Bank SETA, INSETA, EWSETA, CHIETA, - Limited funding that creates a huge back lock in terms of placements MQA, AgriSETA, CETA, NSF and MICTSETA and the - Congested or slow system during application for Discretionary Grants relations has been satisfactory. and uploading for Certification that causes the college to miss deadline. - Some SETAs funding only 12 months with no extension versus the 18 months requirements for students to qualify for N Diploma requirements - Lack of support for staff development for TVET Colleges - Unequal stipend amounts for students.

8. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 8 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: LOVEDALE COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES Lovedale - Standardization of learner stipend on WIL and - Deliverables and requirements for tranche payment not clearly stated Learnerships to avoid stipend hoping upfront or in contract resulting to delays in processing payments. - Setas must provide workshops on their indicium - Poor LMIS support - not knowing who to contact and being sent around system in circles before the issue is resolved. - Seta forums are much needed to discuss issues - TVET Colleges not given priority and support to apply for Discretionary pertaining the funding, seta qualifications, Grants and no feedback after the application has been made. accreditations and other related matters

9. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 9 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: PORT ELIZABETH COLLEGE Port Elizabeth SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL - Port Elizabeth TVET College would appreciate CHALLENGES - A platform must be created so that College Principals engage with all support regarding Strategic Projects such as CEO s of all SETA s. Maritime Studies as PE TVET College is very - SETA s are all funding student placement, lecturer placement and close to the sea. staff bursaries to study. - SETA s should support the professional development of Senior - Apprenticeship Training based on the Dual Managers in the TVET Sector. System is a very expensive Model, PE College - Energy and Water SETA visited PE TVET College made empty requires support to grow this training model to promises and never returned. develop apprentices in Renewable Energy, Diesel - Some SETA s are prepared to sign a MoA but this MoA will include Mechanics, Electrical Vehicles, Water Works and joint funding for projects. Some colleges are in a position to do this Mechatronics. while other colleges may not have these funds. - Currently the ICT infrastructure is very old at PE TVET College. The campuses is in need of a Smart Skills Centre at all campuses so that additional training programmes could be offered to NCV ICT graduates such as Cloud Computing. - PE TVET College would like to establish an entrepreneurship hub in 2023 however we will require support so that this Hub is sustainable. - CHIETA SETA is the best SETA supporting PE TVET College.

10. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 10 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: MTHASHANA SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES COLLEGE - Instability in governance and management and - Whilst acknowledging that the financial muscles of SETA s differ it Mthashana frequent changes of staff roles. would assist greatly if stipends could be standardised - - For learnerships and skills programs it would assist if the minimum Some SETA s do not have regional offices and those that do their regional offices are not payment per learner could also be standardised. empowered to take decisions on implementation - All SETA s need to encourage their industry stakeholders to open up workplaces for learners during their stakeholder meetings. issues thereby causing TVET s to work with their head offices staff whose telephone numbers are - SETAs should assist their companies to be workplace approved. forever engaged. This impacts on deadlines. - SETAs should arrange exclusive TVET stakeholder engagements - organised nationally or provincially or regionally. Most SETA s do not hold accreditation and uploading workshops for TVET s but rely on the - Whilst it is understood that all of us are thin on the ground SETA s information in their websites. must attempt to be visible at all TVET Colleges. - SETA s have varying and conflicting requirements and procedures. - Delays in doing verifications and in the production of certificates - Templates and forms that are not user friendly to TVET s. - Delays in the payments of tranches and stipends despite the TVET having complied with all the requirements timeously.

11. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 11 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: SEKHUKHUNE COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES Sekhukhune - Some SETAs do not fund placement of Post NCV level 4 graduates and this cause backlog in terms of number of learners placement. - Communication is sometimes come from SETAs or SACPO with different information.

12. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 12 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: BOLAND COLLEGE - SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL Delayed tranche payments from some SETAs (e.g. MICT, PSETA) CHALLENGES - More in-person engagements with Seta reps specifically working with the place the college under severe cash flow pressure and inflate the implementation of projects (across college debtors accounts. - SETAS) There is not sufficient standardisation in place between SETAs, e.g. - Clear communication and requirements INSETA requires the WPBL program to be included during (tranche payment schedules within the placement, other SETAs do not require this. This also applies to MOA sometimes differ to some email inconsistencies in requirements for prior workplace approvals. - requests) Some SETAs require colleges to sign contracts as lead employers. - Colleges require an administration fee of at least 10% to cover administrative costs and overheads to make the contracts viable for the college. This is especially important if there are stipends involved as there is a lot of additional administrative work that the college needs to do to ensure that the students receive their stipends. - Upfront payments are required from the SETAs to enable colleges to pay stipends. The college cannot afford to pay stipends to students if it has not received funding from the SETA as this has a detrimental effect on college cash flow.

13. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 13 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: FALSE BAY COLLEGE False Bay CHALLENGES SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL - SETA to kindly consider the turnaround timeframes of - Lengthy turnaround times to verify documents linked to verification of documents linked to deliverables, as this Upload of candidates on the SETA Learning Management systems o delays the payments of invoices and ultimately the MOA Deliverables o payment stipends to the students - Late payments of first tranche payment for stipends as per the contract - Could the turnaround time be within 10 business days deliverables. College cannot fund student stipends payments as it will - Promote a standardised Workplace approval process certainly lead to cashflow challenges. for all sectors - Different SETA approaches and support to Workplace approval process, - Verification meetings prior to uploads and submissions and information required from companies to reduce the verification time/ duration. - Stipend payment confirmation for the ease of communication to the - Increased funding for TVET graduate placement students - Support graduate placement by motivating levy paying employers to host TVET college graduates - Increased funding needed for occupational programmes - Stipend and payment process standardisation

14. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 14 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: NORTHLINK COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES - - Some SETAs, (for example FOODBEV) are reluctant to offer Shorter lead time when and with the issuing of trade the minimum 7,5% project management fee to TVET serial numbers. - Colleges. Shorter lead time after submitting DG Applications from - CETA and Services Seta funding model are performance- 90 days to at least 60 days. - based vs. all the other setas are tranche based. Standardisation and issue of 7,5% of project - Stipend amounts and placement periods are inconsistent and management fees to TVET Colleges. - varies from SETA to SETA. CETA and Services Seta should consider amending their - NCV: L4 Programmes are not supported with funding for the funding models to tranche based. - placement of NCV: L4 students. Standardised stipend amounts, for example R3500,00 - DHET requires TVET Colleges to place lecturers and per month for all N6 placements. - Standardisation of N6 Placements periods. whereby SETA s do not commit any funding for lecturer - placements. Only FOODBEV committed in 2018 2019 a All SETA s should consider an commit discretionary lecturer placements budget of R88 000, which ceased. funds towards lecturer placements. - - SETA s to offer MoU s as a norm to all TVET Colleges. Some SETAs offer Memorandum of Understanding s (MoU) - with TVET Colleges, and whereby other setas do not offer Accessible and visible partnerships with SETA s (for example Services Seta, EWSETA and CETA). MoU s to TVET Colleges. The advantage of MoU s confirms - Verification of registered Assessors - linked to Northlink and pledges the commitment from SETA s to TVET Colleges, on an annual basis. This process only requires a project College. - proposal. Verification of registered Moderators - linked to - Northlink College. Some SETA s (, for example Services Seta, EWSETA and - CETA) are inaccessible to TVET Colleges and no visible Verification of registered Skills Development Facilitators partnership exist. linked to Northlink College.

15. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 15 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: SOUTH CAPE COLLEGE South Cape CHALLENGES - Some SETAs are reluctant to fund 3-year apprenticeships and tend to only fund year by year. Even though the College needs to sign 3-year contracts with the learners and Host Employers. - SETAs are also reluctant to fund equipment and infrastructure, while it is expected that Colleges must roll-out Occupational Programmes and increase the delivery of occupational programmes. - SETAs must earmark dedicated funding for TVET colleges to ensure expansion of occupational certificate programme delivery, especially the new qualifications as developed by QCTO as replacement for the old qualifications of N4-N6 Business and General Studies. - Some SETAs fund experiential learning for N6 learners for 12 months, although learners need to do 18 months before they can apply for their National Diplomas. - Some SETAs do not fund NCV Level 4 student graduates for internships. - Some SETAs exclude students for placement for student internships based on specific age restrictions while the college have no age restriction for a person to study at the college nor does NSFAS have any age restrictions. - SETAs needs to standardize the amount allocated for stipends since it creates unhappiness among students. - SETAs allocate very small numbers, which have the effect that if there are drop-outs, the College is left with unsustainable projects.

16. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 16 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: WEST COAST COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES - West Coast TVET College has good working relations with most of the SETA s and generally - Assistance with workplace approvals of companies where students does not have many negative experiences with the are placed for the workplace exposure component of their majority of SETA s. respective qualifications. - However, West Coast TVET College has been - Provision of information pertaining to workplaces which have struggling to retrieve funds in excess of R4 already been approved, detailing the approved qualifications and Million from the Construction Seta for 3 projects contact numbers of company mentors for purposes of potential which have concluded. The college has on work-placement opportunities for students. numerous occasions submitted required - Funding for training, development and capacitation company evidence, the college received financial analysis from CETA, invoiced in accordance to the mentors and managers to ensure. analysis, followed up on numerous occasions Effective and efficient transfer of skills within the workplace o regarding the progress relating to the processing Responsible workplace mentor understands the curriculum of funds but to date did not receive satisfactory o feedback from the officials of the organisation and what is expected from the company in terms of workplace - The College has also been struggling to obtain exposure relevant to the qualification Covert companies into institutions of learning certificates from CETA for various completed o projects, one of which dates back to 2020. Development of skills required to increase number industry- o based trade test practitioners to be linked to college trade test centres as a measure to increase capacity of its trade test/ assessment centres at colleges - Funding for infrastructure development, SMME Development and Occupational Programmes linked to the approved annual performance plans of colleges

17. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 17 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: MOPANI COLLEGE SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL CHALLENGES Mopani - Inconsistency with regard to payment of learner stipend e.g. Some pay R1303 and others R2000 for Learnerships o and R100 per day or R1500 for Short Skills Programmes o - Some take time to process claimed tranches which delays payment of learner stipend - Some do not pay last tranche and expect the College to pay learners then claim back; As a result, the College is unable to perform some of its operational duties because leaners o embark on riots to the College as well as litigating the institution o - SETAs take time to certificate learners even though external verification/moderation was done on time. - Some SETAs are not that supportive to challenges that Colleges are encountering during implementation of various programmes - Some SETAs do not attend induction even when they are invited - Delay in implementation of programmes due to their administrative challenges whereby learners have entered into agreement with the College but they cannot commence with either Learnership, Short Skills or Artisanal o Development Programmes

18. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 18 2025/02/21 SETA CHALLENGES PER COLLEGE: MOTHEO COLLEGE CHALLENGES - Late payment of stipends - Issuing of certificates of learners taking longer - MQA the procurement of toolkits, college struggle with the requirements - AgriSETA verification and printing of certificates are very slow - FP&MSETA no response from the SETA with respect to the re- accreditation of Furniture Manufacture learnership for Hillside View Campus and clothing Production Learnership for Thaba Nchu SUPPORT REQUIRED / GENERAL - Provision of funding for training of apprentices and occupational qualifications - Provision of equipment for workshops to support training of artisans at the college Artisan Development academy - Fastracking the establishment of an ICT Hub at the Artisan Development academy as well as provision of equipment and training in AI, Robotics, Drone technology, etc. - Support the training on Water Technology in order to support water purification at municipalities - Increased funding for students placement on PYEI - Encouraging employers to create opportunities for lecturer placement. - AgriSETA more involvement with students Motheo Services SETA, MERSETA and CETA - supportive

19. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and training 19 2025/02/21 THE END