Services
We offer training and learning sessions that are tailored to provide solutions to help increase the productivity, performance and profitability of your organisation.
We believe in customizing and developing specific solutions through a collaborative process designed to identify a client’s needs, requirements and objectives.
The unique approach combined with the strong team of experts, competent trainers, and multilingual facilitators puts our individually designed training material to suit client’s needs puts us in a position to spur the progress of establishment.
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Learnerships
A learnership is a work based learning programme that leads to an NQF registered qualification. Learnerships are directly related to an occupation or field of work, for example, electrical engineering, hairdressing or project management.
- Learnerships are managed by Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs).
- They were introduced by government to help skill learners and to prepare them for the workplace.
- Learnerships are structured in such a way that it covers two skills components: practical (70%) and theoretical (30%)
- Learnership programmes can help you to gain the necessary skills and workplace experience that will open up better employment or self-employment opportunities.
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Occupational Qualifications
According to the Skills Development Act 97 of 1998 as amended in 2008, an Occupational Qualification’ means a qualification associated with a trade, occupation or profession resulting from work-based learning and consisting of knowledge standards, practical standards and work experience standards.
Occupational qualifications are designed to integrate knowledge, practical skills and workplace learning into the curriculum, through incorporation of Work Integrated Learning (WIL).
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Skills Programmes
A skills programme is a set or cluster of unit standards gathered or combined to form a short programme bearing credits on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
It is aimed at building skills that have economic value, and which incorporates at least one unit standard. It is registered by a SETA and delivered by an accredited training provider and it leads to a qualification registered on the NQF.
Why Skills Programmes?
- The skills programmes are often implemented to meet the needs of the employer to enhance employees’ knowledge for a particular skill.
- Skills programme can culminate into a qualification when an interested learner continues to pursue the completion of the remaining unit standards.
- Training is offered by an accredited provider.
- At the end of the training learners receive a Statement of Results.
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Short Courses
A short course refers to learning that combines both practical and theoretical skills., though it is more practically biased. It opens up many doors of opportunities for students to learn about a specific industry in a short period of time. The main purpose of short courses is to develop and upskill your current set of skills.
What are the benefits of completing a short courses?
- Short courses keep your skills current in readiness for opportunities
- It portrays your commitment to on-going learning opportunities
- Provides networking opportunities both in person and online
- You can identify your hidden talents/interests that inspires and challenges you
- It is cost-effective and provides added skills to workers at any level
We provide Accreditation from any of the following Accrediting bodies:
- SETA(Sector Education and Training Authority)
- QCTO (Quality Council for Trades and Occupations)
We also provide assistance with regards to the extension of scope with your current SETA and programme approval with a secondary SETA.
Our accreditation assistance services includes the following:
- Sending letter of intent, to apply for accreditation, to QCTO
- Developing an ISO aligned Quality Management System (QMS)
- Training, assessing and registering Facilitators, Assessors and Moderators
- Designing and developing new learning material packages (also see our offering on Learning Material Development)
- Aligning existing learning material packages to meet accreditation requirements
- Advising on obtaining a learner management system
- Compiling an accreditation application file ensuring all requirements are met.
- Submitting accreditation file to the SETA or QCTO
- Assisting with the preparation for the SETA/QCTO site visit
- Assisting with the implementation of the QMS through the training of ETD staff (extra cost).
Governance, Risk and Compliance Advisory
Pachedu’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services help clients tackle the broad issues of corporate governance, enterprise risk management, and effective corporate compliance.
Our services encompass:
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Governance and oversight (at the board level)
- Improve board effectiveness
- Set the right tone and make effective decisions
- Assess and implement ethics programs, training, change management, anti-fraud programs and monitoring/reporting.
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Corporate Compliance & Regulatory
- Compliance program design and control testing
- Compliance monitoring, assessment, and effectiveness
- Regulatory consulting.
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Enterprise Risk Management
- Strategic risk management: creating and protecting value from strategic risks
- Design, implement and maintain a common risk infrastructure by leveraging people, process and technology transformation opportunities
- Establish organization-wide consistency while simultaneously addressing different and unique functional needs
- Identify, measure, manage, monitor, review and report on risks
- Integrate activities to effectively manage risk and compliance-related activities
Training material development
Our team of researchers and material developers help companies develop material that is aligned to SAQA unit standards and conforms to international standards. We have a track record of designing and developing high quality education and learning materials that are user-friendly, attractive and accessible.
Our main focus
- Curriculum design
- Assessment guides
- Moderators guides
- Portfolio of Evidence (PoE) guides
- Alignment matrix guides
- Facilitators guides
- Learner/Study guides
Supply chain consulting and client due diligence
Pachedu provides specialised advisory services and coaching relating to world-class aspects within the supply chain. These include:
- Coaching for supply chain executives on supply chain strategy, organisational structuring, talent management and related competency development initiatives.
- Coaching on key aspects of our supply chain training portfolio, where the training concepts must be operationalised - these ‘action learning’ initiatives ensure that the organisation's operating procedures are practically embedded in the context of world-class supply chain practices.
- Subject matter expertise on tap - Commerce Edge's network of trainers are highly experienced individuals who can be called upon to provide short-term expertise in a rapid time frame to unlock key challenges within the supply chain.
Pachedu Skills Solutions provides evidence-based research services within the skills development space. What we offer informs the strategic orientation of your organisation in terms of learning interventions, and management thereof, so as to continuously improve upon skills development.
We are there to continuously provide the solutions throughout the entire research process and generate knowledge to enhance innovation and creativity in skills development delivery. Core to this research is the importance of planning, design of support interventions, measuring performance and impact assessment of various interventions and lastly assess and evaluate progress, successes and failures in the skills development process.
Through our research services, we help you answer the following questions as regards to skills development:
- What skills are needed?
- Who needs these skills? – ” Demand side”
- When are skills needed? – Short; medium and long term
- Where is the provision of these? – “Supply side”
- How these can be best developed?
Research methodology
Desk based research
- Internal Desk Research
- Online Desk Research
- Government published data
- Customer desk research
Field research
- Personal interviews
- Focus group surveys
- Direct observation.
Who can use our Strategy & Research Services?
- Companies, Civil Society Organisations , Government Departments, Municipalities and SETAs wanting to make strategic, evidence-based decisions around the area of skills development
- Researchers wanting data collection services, technical support or interpretation assistance.
Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and Mentoring form an integral part of an individual’s development, both personally and professionally.
Mentoring relates primarily to the identification and nurturing of potential for the whole person. It can be a long-term relationship, where the goals may change but are always set by the learner.
Coaching relates primarily to performance improvement (often short-term) in a specific skills area. The goals, or at least the intermediate or sub-goals, are typically set with or at the suggestion of the coach.
Whilst Coaching is more “task” oriented and Mentoring is more “relationship” oriented, both provide a vital platform for individuals to grow and provide increased value to their organizations.
Pachedu believes that specific training interventions (particularly learnerships and internships) should be strategically aligned and coupled with effective Mentoring and Coaching programmes to increase the benefits to the business and have a lifelong and sustainable impact on an individual’s personal and professional growth.
Training initiatives are coupled with effective coaching sessions to ultimately achieve three goals in the business:
- Development of one’s personal growth and individual skills.
- The development of a team’s skills and ability to integrate working styles to best align with strategic company goals and enhance team performance.
- Development of an organization’s skills to drive organizational change.
Grant funding applications
Many businesses aren’t aware of the funding that is available to them for Skills Development and Training, or may not have the time and expertise to apply for funding with the SETA.
There are two types of funding available for businesses:
Discretionary Grants and Pivotal Grants.
Pachedu assists clients with the full grant funding process, in order to maximize the potential of receiving funds, and in turn, implement relevant training interventions to upskill employees and increase their value to the organization.
SETA’s were set up by Government to:
- Identify skills development needs in each sector
- Oversee the development and implementation of strategic sector skills development plans
- Approve proposed training interventions with organizations
- Manage the standard for education and training within an agreed national framework
- Facilitate with the payments of grants to levy skills payers
For an organisation to be able to claim back from SETA, a Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) needs to be appointed, who is required to be registered with a SETA body relevant to the organization they are applying for grants for. Once an SDF has been appointed, they will assist in compiling a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR) for the business, which is then submitted to SETA.