{"id":95,"date":"2024-03-06T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=95"},"modified":"2024-03-13T01:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T23:06:44","slug":"spu-and-mqa-advancing-development-through-strategic-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"SPU and MQA: Advancing development through strategic collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"author-header\">Written by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Kealeboga Sibiya\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/author\/commmarketing02\/\" rel=\"author\">Kealeboga Sibiya<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a>\u00a0(SPU) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mqa.org.za\/\">Mining Qualifications Authority<\/a>\u00a0(MQA) took a significant step towards strengthening their partnership, with SPU\u2019s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Andrew Crouch, and MQA\u2019s CEO, Dr Thabo Mashongoane, leading the way. This collaboration underscores SPU\u2019s commitment to addressing regional challenges, particularly those amplified by poverty and unemployment in the Northern Cape, through innovative educational programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The MQA\u2019s contribution to this partnership includes a series of skills development initiatives to create a proficient workforce recognised under the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). These initiatives are designed to elevate the mining sector\u2019s health, safety and productivity standards. The discussion covered the MQA\u2019s bursary schemes, learnerships, internships, lecturer support programmes and community support initiatives to foster academic excellence and provide financial support to deserving students.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Crouch highlighted SPU\u2019s strategic goals, emphasising the university\u2019s holistic approach to student support, which addresses academic and personal development needs. This ensures the cultivation of well-rounded graduates equipped to contribute effectively to their chosen fields.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between SPU and MQA is structured around a comprehensive agreement that outlines mutual roles and responsibilities. It aims to provide clear strategies for extending the support to MQA bursars, future collaboration and special programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Current SPU students benefiting from MQA support are in critical fields such as biological sciences, physical sciences, and retail business management, which align with the region\u2019s development needs and the broader objectives of both institutions. Following the meeting today the financial support will extend to other fields strategically crucial to SPU and the MQA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0Kealeboga Sibiya Sol Plaatje University\u00a0(SPU) and the\u00a0Mining Qualifications Authority\u00a0(MQA) took a significant step towards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-community","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}