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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
REGISTERED QUALIFICATION: 

Master of Public Management in Development Management 
SAQA QUAL ID QUALIFICATION TITLE
101134  Master of Public Management in Development Management 
ORIGINATOR
University of Venda 
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK
CHE - Council on Higher Education  HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework 
QUALIFICATION TYPE FIELD SUBFIELD
Master's Degree  Field 03 - Business, Commerce and Management Studies  Generic Management 
ABET BAND MINIMUM CREDITS PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL QUAL CLASS
Undefined  180  Not Applicable  NQF Level 09  Regular-Provider-ELOAC 
REGISTRATION STATUS SAQA DECISION NUMBER REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE
Reregistered  EXCO 0622/24  2024-07-01  2027-06-30 
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2027-06-30   2029-06-30  

In all of the tables in this document, both the pre-2009 NQF Level and the NQF Level is shown. In the text (purpose statements, qualification rules, etc), any references to NQF Levels are to the pre-2009 levels unless specifically stated otherwise.  

This qualification replaces: 
Qual ID Qualification Title Pre-2009 NQF Level NQF Level Min Credits Replacement Status
18936  Master of Development Management  Level 8 and above  NQF Level 09  240  Complete 

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION 
Purpose:
The purpose of the qualification is to produce public managers who are competent and generalists that can produce competent researchers, analysts and public practitioners. The aim is to equip candidates with skills to perform a variety of specialists tasks that produce public managers who can complete with their international counterparts. The aim is to also produce people with training and development skills that produce future municipal officials and political office-bearers.

Rationale:
This qualification prepares learners who aspire to move to the highest level of academic work for doctoral study and to promote an approach based on academic integrity and professional ethics and attitude in a specific field of development management to utilise the opportunities for continued personal intellectual growth gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society. It also capacitates learners who are public official to perform optimally in their working place. Provide South Africa with significant numbers of highly trained learners of Development Management to ensure the broadening of the local leadership base of innovative and knowledge based scholarly activity. Finally, it stimulates and prepares learners for further advanced study by the provision of required knowledge, skills and insight to develop as public administrators and researchers on the highest academic levels and to provide South Africa with administrators who will have a clear and continuously growing understanding of the methods and progress needed in the public sector. 

LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING 
Entry Requirements:
The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is the:
  • Bachelor of Administration Honours in Public Management National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 8.
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Development Management, NQF Level 8. 
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    RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING? 
    N 

    QUALIFICATION RULES 
    This qualification comprises of compulsory and elective modules at National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 9 totalling 200 Credits.

    Compulsory Modules, Level 9, 167 Credits:
  • Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development Management, 11 Credits.
  • Urban/Rural Community Development and Planning, 11 Credits.
  • Development Planning, Programming and Project Management, 11 Credits.
  • Research Methodology, 11 Credits.
  • Ethics and Accountability, 11Credits.
  • Policy and Policy Analysis, 11 Credits.
  • Financial Management, 11 Credits.
  • Mini Dissertation, 90 Credits.

    Elective Modules, Level 9, 33 Credits (choose Three Modules):
  • Contemporary Municipal Government, 11 Credits.
  • Municipal Government and Democracy Development Aid, 11 Credits.
  • Development Aid, 11 Credits.
  • Municipal Service Delivery, 11 Credits.
  • Productivity and Performance, 11 Credits.
  • Municipal Committee Management, 11 Credits. 
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    EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES 
    1. Ability to perform duties effectively and efficiently.
    2. Ability to manage resources effectively and efficiently.
    3. Ability to identify, analyse and solve political, economic, social and religious problems.
    4. Ability to understand the needs and activities of members of the public (clients) and public institutions in regard to how resources are allocated.
    5. Understand the public sector and demonstrate how policies are formulated. 

    ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 
  • Ability to be responsive to the needs of members of the public.
  • Providing public services effectually.

    Integrated Assessment:
    The integration of skills learned in the programme is assessed by means of a Mini-Dissertation of a word length stipulated by the School of Management Sciences. Assessment is based on criteria, which includes: (i) scope and quality of literature review from a variety of text and other media; (ii) accuracy with which the literature is represented and applied to the research questions; (iii) the formulation of a research question and the development of research proposal based on the literature review. The proposal must specify a research design and the method/s to be applied to answer the research questions, and be of appropriate scale and complexity of a Master's Mini- Dissertation; (iv) the demonstration of a professional working relationship by responding to the comments of the projects supervisor; (v) the execution of the research proposed;(vi) presentation of the research is a manner which accords with the publication conventions of the discipline. The learners are assessed in a way of continuous assessment through intensive participation in the class, presentation of specific assignments, writing which is presided by research and studying and then finally culminate in summative assessment in a way of examination. The students are also expected to write a Mini-Dissertation to actually equip them to understand the scientific research principles and the methodology of research. This kind of assessment ensures that the students not only know the contents, but how to do things systematically instil creativity, analytical writing, sound judgement using data and information and communicate this to various audiences. 
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    INTERNATIONAL COMPARABILITY 
    This Master's qualification is comparable to other similar qualifications around the world with regard to outcomes and assessment criteria, Degree of difficulty and national learning time. The standard is assured, inter alia, by a requirement for assessment by external examiners who hold a University academic position, and where at least one is based outside of South Africa. 

    ARTICULATION OPTIONS 
    This qualification allows for vertical articulation options:
    Vertical Articulation:
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration, Level 10.
  • Doctor of Public Administration, Level 10.

    Horizontal Articulation:
  • Master of Administration in Public Administration, Level 9.
  • Master of Arts in Public Management and Governance, Level 9. 
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    MODERATION OPTIONS 
    N/A 

    CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS 
    N/A 

    NOTES 
    N/A 

    LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION: 
    When qualifications are replaced, some (but not all) of their learning programmes are moved to the replacement qualifications. If a learning programme appears to be missing from here, please check the replaced qualification.
     
    NONE 


    PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THIS QUALIFICATION: 
    This information shows the current accreditations (i.e. those not past their accreditation end dates), and is the most complete record available to SAQA as of today. Some Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionaries have a lag in their recording systems for provider accreditation, in turn leading to a lag in notifying SAQA of all the providers that they have accredited to offer qualifications and unit standards, as well as any extensions to accreditation end dates. The relevant Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionary should be notified if a record appears to be missing from here.
     
    1. University of Venda 


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