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            <title>Further Education and Training Colleges Amendment Act 1 of 2013 </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006, so as to amend certain definitions; to amend the provisions relating to the establishment of a public college; to establish the South African Institute for Vocational and Continuing Education and Training; to provide for the composition, functions and functioning of the Institute; to provide for transitional arrangements, the repeal of the Adult Education and Training Act, 2000, and the amendment of certain other laws; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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            <category>(Act 1 of 2013 G. 36271 GoN 209)</category>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006, so as to remove all references to provincial authority; to assign functions previously assigned to the Member of the Executive Council to the Minister; to remove all references to "Head of Department" and replace them with "Director-General"; to regulate the conduct of members of the council, members of a committee of the council and staff of a public further education and training college engaging in business with the relevant public college; to provide afresh for the appointment of staff; and to
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            <category>(Act 3 of 2012 G. 35308 GoN 345)</category>
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            <description><![CDATA[I, Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, MP, Minister of Higher Education and Training, in terms of Section 41 A of the Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997), hereby appoint Prof
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            <title>Higher Education and Training Laws Amendment Act 23 of 2012 </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Higher Education Act, 1997, so as to provide afresh for the establishment of a national institute for higher education; to extend the functions of a national institute for higher education; to provide for the appointment of an administrator for a national institute for higher education; to provide for the closure of a national institute for higher education; to extend the powers and functions of an independent assessor; to give the Minister the power to intervene in the case of poor or non-performance or maladministration by a public higher education institution; to provide for the dissolution of the council as well as procedure for such dissolution; and to extend the powers of an administrator to temporarily take over the management, governance and administration of the council of a public higher education institution; and to amend the National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008, so as to change the date on which the annual report of the South African Qualifications Authority must be submitted to the Minister; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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            <category>(Act 23 of 2012 G. 36022 GoN 1104)</category>
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            <title>National Qualifications Framework Amendment Act 12 of 2019 (English / isiZulu) </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008, so as to amend and insert certain definitions; to provide for the verification of all qualifications or part-qualifications by the SAQA; to provide for the formulation of criteria for evaluating foreign qualifications; to provide for the establishment and mainte-nance of separate registers of misrepresented or fraudulent qualifications or part-qualifications; to provide for a separate register for professional designations; to provide for the referral of qualifications or part-qualifications to the SAQA for verification and evaluation; to provide for offences and penalties which have a bearing on fraudulent qualifications; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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