Part 3

Lessons of Experience

 3.1 What is the programme and target audience? 

 Case studies of five programmes form the core of this report. These are: 

• ACCESS Distance Learning and Teaching’s Early Childhood Development Reception Year Certificate Course (ACCESSDL&T: ECD) targeted at teachers or learners needing pre-primary, reception class or school readiness qualifications, junior primary teachers and entrepreneurs wanting to establish or run créches and day care centres
• UNISA Institute for Adult Basic Education’s Certificate in Adult Basic Education and Training (UNISA: ABET) targeted at “anyone who is a trainer or who would like to become a trainer of adults”
• The University of the Orange Free State Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Bachelor in Management Leadership (UOFS: BML) targeted at working managers in business and other organisations (including government) who do not have prior formal management and leadership training and who need to develop leadership skills as they function in a variety of leadership positions
• The University of Pretoria Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing Science’s B. Cur (I et A) (UP: BCur) targeted at learners who have completed basic initial training but who have had no opportunity to further their studies, as well as registered nurses with a diploma or degree
• The University of the Witwatersrand’s Further Diploma in Education (WITS: FDE) targeted at working senior primary and secondary teachers with a three- year diploma who wish to specialise in teaching English.

Further details about the programmes can be found in the individual case studies as well as in Appendix One.