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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
REGISTERED QUALIFICATION THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE: 

Diploma: Fashion Design 
SAQA QUAL ID QUALIFICATION TITLE
57211  Diploma: Fashion Design 
ORIGINATOR
General SGB 02 
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK
The individual Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionary for each Learning Programme recorded against this qualification is shown in the table at the end of this report.  HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework 
QUALIFICATION TYPE FIELD SUBFIELD
Advanced Certificate  Field 02 - Culture and Arts  Design Studies 
ABET BAND MINIMUM CREDITS PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL QUAL CLASS
Undefined  240  Level 5  NQF Level 06  Regular-ELOAC 
REGISTRATION STATUS SAQA DECISION NUMBER REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE
Passed the End Date -
Status was "Reregistered" 		 SAQA 091/21  2021-07-01  2023-06-30 
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2024-06-30   2028-06-30  

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 does not replace any other qualification and is not replaced by any other qualification. 

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION 
Purpose:

This is a unique programme of its kind and encompasses both business management skills and information technology. This programme is targeted to learners who want to know the processes involved in establishing their own business or work in the established marketing and branding industry, while demonstrating advanced information technology skills.

Firstly, the programme provides an understanding of Business management, Information Technology, Entrepreneurship, Hotel management and tourism, Marketing, and fashion design at an early stage, serves as a directive as far as the initial planning and research processes are concerned. Secondly, the programme broadens the scope of the entrepreneur`s frame of reference by placing emphasis on the administrative and legal aspects during the process of starting a business. Finally, attention is also given to financial ratios as a method of evaluating the survival capacity of a business, which could give additional credibility to the business plan. The flavour of Fashion Design gives identity to the qualification provides learners with skills on information technology. Fashion Design and Business Management are areas foregrounded as the main basis of business operations in this qualification.

The programme will give the graduate a full level 5 qualification that will allow the graduate to proceed through life-long learning to other qualifications in the NQF framework.

Rationale:

Learners exit with skills and competencies in:
  • Dress Making
  • Fashion Design
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Management
  • Commercial advertising management
  • Business management
  • Organisational behaviour and people management

    The qualification is offered for learners who graduate from grade 12 and seek to join the hospitality industry with hands on skills on the above stated competencies. The qualification also seeks to admit practitioners who have the wealth of experience in hotel management, but don`t have a formal qualification. 
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    LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING 
    For candidates to gain access into the programme, they should have passed grade 12, or have an equivalent qualification. The RPL route will be used to afford access opportunity to those candidates who do not have a formal grade 12 certification, but have the wealth of experience and other forms of prior learning competencies.

    Modules pegged at level 4 will allow learners to smoothly transcend through learning from level 4 knowledge and skills to level 5. Learners are expected to have leaned basic life skills and developed basic decision making competence. The programme however seeks to assist learners improve those skills.

    Recognition of Prior Learning:

    Candidates applying for admission to the programme are required to complete an admission questionnaire that, among other things, obliges them to list their (a) academic qualifications and (b) other qualifications such as professional attainments and professional experience. Copies are produced at registration.

    To assess students` prior learning, the prospective candidates will be asked to present evidence of prior learning based competencies at a selection interview. The student may present one or more of the reports of previous academic achievement at level 4, and portfolio of management experience and practice.

    Candidates are exposed to a battery of aptitude tests administered by an appointed expert attached to a public higher education expert/practitioner to assess their ability to cope with the rigours of the programme on the basis of their abilities and prior learning.

    Students will also be invited to submit portfolios that bear clear evidence and testimony on learning that took place and competencies acquired though experience and other forms of prior learning. These portfolios will be evaluated against the outcomes of the qualification and the competencies expected. Those students who demonstrate competence in certain areas will be granted credit and have their learning accelerated. No full qualification shall be granted through the RPL process, but fast tracking of learning shall be the outcome of the RPL process. 

    RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING? 
    Y 

    QUALIFICATION RULES 
    N/A 

    EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES 
    Graduates, who graduate from the Diploma in Fashion Design will be able to:-
  • Apply general management skills and principles in their business undertakings;
  • Able to demonstrate the ability to start and manage their own fashion design enterprises and or design business functions in established organisations,
  • Use effective business communication and presentation skills in marketing as well as public relations for their business;
  • Manage and work in teams efficiently, collaborate at all levels in their organisations, and provide effective leadership, applying appropriate people management skills;
  • Manage and understand people dynamics and human behaviour in the workplace;
  • Demonstrate incisive understanding and appreciation of all functions within the work environment, not just in specialised areas;
  • Understand the causes and negative consequences of stress and apply appropriate skills to minimise employee stress in order to enhance employee effectiveness and organisational productivity;
  • Conduct and manage marketing enterprises in the competitive business environments;
  • Demonstrate understanding of a wide range of business management dynamics;
  • Demonstrate an ability to manage time through applying relevant skills, and utilisation of modern technology;
  • Delegate, co-ordinate, strategize and achieve goals, within allocated budget and time;
  • Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of fashion design management and leadership
  • The delivery of the curriculum for the Diploma in Fashion Design integrates with the critical cross-field outcomes.

    Critical Cross-field Outcomes and Integration in the Qualification
  • Identify and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made. Students are encouraged to draw inference from existing human experiences, cutting-edge research programmes, business management practices, practices of successful countries (using the globalisation context). Through intensive and incisive interrogation of literature on various areas of management and educational leadership, students acquire skills of linking their theoretical training to real life situations, to make critical decisions by choosing best alternatives from a wide range of possible alternatives, focussing on problem analysis and solving through application of principles and skills to real business problems.
  • Work effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organisation and community. The seminar-based approach involves students in collaborative research projects and presentations, which commit them to productive group work. Organisation and management of work teams, including delegation and co-ordination of these projects is stressed in this programme.
  • Organise and manage oneself and one`s activities responsibly and effectively.
    Individual projects enable students to organise and manage resources, including time and budgets, with efficiency.
  • Collect, organise and critically evaluate information.
    Research processes entailing detailed design, implementation, analysis and evaluation of field based research data collection processes, enable students to critically evaluate information.
  • Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical and/or language skills in the modes of oral and/or written presentation.
    This programme places emphasis on all forms of communication and presentation of group and individual work in simulated environments. Students are couched on how to use appropriate language of the communication discourse (graphic, visual, and verbal) for research conducting and formal presentations.
  • Use science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and health of others.
    Awareness of health implications of work environment, particularly stress, and ability to use modern technology to minimise this and enhance productivity is emphasised.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation.
    This programme uses a holistic approach to business and management and organisational leadership and their environment through engaging on ongoing projects on business management and organisational management which bring together student`s own function and various other forms of business functions. 
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    ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 
    Integrated Assessment:

    Assessment of competence and learning outcomes realisation will be based on a combination of: -
  • Tests
  • Project preparation and presentation
  • Evaluation of class participation and leadership
  • End of year examinations
  • Final year examinations and major written project covering all aspects of programme content
  • Oral assessment during the seminar presentations, and
  • Portfolios of practical experience assignments completed.

    Internal Assessors:
    Module lecturers and internal examiners with relevant academic, business and management qualifications and experience

    External Assessors:
    Subject specialists from other institutions (universities, business schools, and business and education practitioners) with relevant academic qualifications in specific fields in question serve as external examiners for different subjects in the programme. 
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    INTERNATIONAL COMPARABILITY 
    This qualification is pegged and placed against the NQF/ SAQA framework. If registered it will be internationally recognized as a South African legitimate qualification. All modules offered in the qualification are benchmarked against latest trends in each field and current practice nationally and internationally. Experts from various fields are drawn in to develop and design the curriculum based on best practice across the world. This alone ensures international comparability of outcomes and competencies of our graduates. 

    ARTICULATION OPTIONS 
    Horizontal Articulation

    Learner can branch from the qualification into either of the following qualifications:
  • Diploma in Hotel Management
  • Diploma in Marketing (Business Management and Entrepreneurial Studies)
  • Diploma in Office Management
  • Diploma in Information Technology

    All these qualifications have been design along the same foundation, fundamental and certain core credits.

    Vertical Articulation

    Students who graduate with this qualification can pursue a one-year qualification like a certificate programme at level 6 or a professional higher diploma at level 6. This will allow these students to move to a level 7 qualification. 
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    MODERATION OPTIONS 
    Internal Assessors:

    Module lecturers and internal examiners with relevant academic, business and management qualifications and experience.

    External Assessors:

    Subject specialists from other institutions (universities, business schools, and business and education practitioners) with relevant academic qualifications in specific fields in question serve as external examiners for different subjects in the programme.

    Programme design and any changes are reviewed and approved by relevant structures in the college to ensure compliance with academic requirements and institutional integrity.

    Students complete end of year evaluations on programme modules, giving feedback on lecturer effectiveness, relevant/quality of contents etc, which is the college wide course evaluation initiative.

    Employers of students are requested to provide feedback on performance of students highlighting any performance changes attributed to learning on the programme.

    Alumni of the programme will provide valuable feedback on the applicability and continued relevance of the programme to business.

    Students will provide written and oral course evaluations of each of the seminars and workshops presented in the programme.

    User surveys will be used to solicit feedback from students on annual basis. 

    CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS 
    N/A 

    REREGISTRATION HISTORY 
    As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2012; 2015. 

    NOTES 
    This qualification has been derived from provider-based qualifications, in order to record Learning Programmes against it. 

    LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION: 
     
    LP ID Learning Programme Title Originator Pre-2009
    NQF Level    		 NQF Level Min Credits Learning Prog End Date Quality
    Assurance
    Functionary    		 NQF Sub-Framework
    97169  Diploma in Fashion Design  Lisof  Not Applicable  NQF Level 06  240     CHE  HEQSF 
    50142  Diploma: Fashion (Design/Commercial)  Lisof  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  240  2014-12-31  CHE  HEQSF 
    61698  Diploma: Fashion Design  Anchorlite College  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  248     CHE  HEQSF 
    62758  Diploma: Fashion Design  City Varsity (Pty) Ltd  Level 5  Level TBA: Pre-2009 was L5  240  2009-06-30  CHE  HEQSF 
    36022  Diploma: Fashion Design  Credo College  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  240     CHE  HEQSF 
    48850  Diploma: Fashion Design  Eduvos (Pty) Ltd (previously known as Midrand Graduate Institute and later to Pearson Institute of Higher Education)  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  319     CHE  HEQSF 
    57873  Diploma: Fashion Design  Linea Academy  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  240     CHE  HEQSF 
    62630  Diploma: Fashion Design  Varsity College  Level 5  Level TBA: Pre-2009 was L5  248  2006-06-30  CHE  HEQSF 
    64169  Diploma: Fashion Design  Villioti Fashion Institute (Pty) Ltd (previously known as Spero Villioti Elite Design Academy)  Level 5  Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L5  240  2018-12-31  CHE  HEQSF 


    PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THESE LEARNING PROGRAMMES: 
    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.
     
    LP ID Learning Programme Title Accredited Provider
    97169  Diploma in Fashion Design  1. LISOF (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg
    2. LISOF (Pty) Ltd - Pretoria  
    50142  Diploma: Fashion (Design/Commercial)  1. LISOF (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg
    2. LISOF (Pty) Ltd - Pretoria  
    61698  Diploma: Fashion Design  Anchorlite College  
    62758  Diploma: Fashion Design  City Varsity - Cape Town  
    57873  Diploma: Fashion Design  Linea Academy  
    64169  Diploma: Fashion Design  Villioti Fashion Institute (Pty) Ltd (previously known as Spero Villioti Elite Design Academy)  


    All qualifications and part qualifications registered on the National Qualifications Framework are public property. Thus the only payment that can be made for them is for service and reproduction. It is illegal to sell this material for profit. If the material is reproduced or quoted, the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) should be acknowledged as the source.