A year-long continuous professional development programme, customised to meet your needs and schedule, with assignments structured to help you in challenges you are facing in your daily work.

You receive a CPD Toolkit with 48hrs of expert presentations by leading practitioners, thinkers and policy makers in the field of adult education and sills development in South Africa - drawn from major corporations, government departments, parastatals and universities.

Facilitated by professional academic tutors with strong research competence.

All learners on this programme are required to hold at least a national diploma and several years of relevant workplace experience; and to meet rigorous entry criteria.

This is your opportunity to spend a year in dialogue with some of the most talented, senior adult learning professionals in South Africa.

South Africa is focused on two key priorities for the early part of the twenty-first century - strengthening its position as a global economic player by achieving 6% per annum growth, and halving poverty and unemployment by 2014.

Education, training and development practices in the country will either support these goals or increasingly be relegated to the sidelines.

The nation's accelerated and shared growth initiative (AsgiSA) has identified binding constraints on achieving the above targets.

One of the key constraints is a lack of skills linked to priority growth areas.

In order for Government to successfully spend the over R370 billion earmarked for AsgiSA, skills development in South Africa will have to undergo a revolution:

-Institutes of sectoral and occupational excellence will be developed to support sector economic growth
-Private providers will face increasing quality demands
-Enterprise providers will become strategic partners measured against business growth

All of these initiatives require leadership in education, training and development.

Increasingly, Occupationally-directed ETD Practitioners will need world-class skills in the following fields:

-Analysing organizational and learner needs and planning learning
-Facilitating skills development and learning frameworks in organisations in support of business strategies
-Managing ETD in organisations as an integrated part of human resource strategies
-Designing and developing learning programmes and processes that make a difference
-Facilitating and conducting efficient and effective learning and assessment
-Understanding and working with unit standards, qualifications, learnerships and the NQF
-Evaluating human resource development interventions

The human resources in organisations will be key in facing up to these challenges and the competition for skilled leadership from Adult Learning Practitioners will determine those that lead the market, those that follow, and those that fold.