Fredstone City College
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Attendance Categories

The college takes all efforts to accommodate all learning schedules possible but we mainly categorize them into the following:

The full time attendance (Those who attend Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 16:000)

The Part time attendance (This is only done on Saturday, 09:00 – 14:00)

Online (This is a 24 hour learning)

Correspondence (With this, all study material and all forms of assessment will be couriered to the registered address)

Workplace Learning

This qualification requires a compulsory experimental learning or in-service training component of 18 months in matters relating to Mechanical Engineering. Workplace Learning provides important opportunities for professional and personal growth. It addresses specific competencies identified for the acquisition of the qualification, which relates to the development of skills that will make the student employable and will assist in developing his or her personal skills. A training logbook is provided by the college as guide line for the training on what the training should cover.

Entry Requirement

Learners who want to do this course must have completed the National Senior Certificate or Senior Certificate or any other qualification of that equivalence. Foreign learners are required to submit their higher qualification to SAQA to determine their level of entry.

Assessments

There are 2 (two) forms of assessments required for this qualification that must be done at each of the qualification levels. The Internal Continuous assessments (2 class Tests) that are conducted by the college and then the Final external examination which is set, monitored and facilitated by the Department of higher education and Training. You will only be able to register to write the external examination if you pass your formative assessment component  which the College will use to generate a term mark for each of your subjects as required by the Department of higher education and Training

Certification

On successful completion of each level, i.e., passing all the required modules of individual qualification levels, a certificate for that particular completed level will be issued by the Department of Higher Education and Training together with the Quality council for Trades and Occupation.

The National N Diploma is only issued if proof of 18 months of practical in-service training is provided accompanying the Diploma application. The application process takes a maximum of 3 months.

Accreditation and Duration

3 Years (Divided into 2 components)

• 1. 18 Months (6 Trimester) of the theoretical component (N1 - N6)

• 2. 18 Months of practical in-service training

This course is accredited by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) as its quality assurance body and its assessed by the Department of Higher Education and Training as its assessment body.

Career Path

With this qualification you could enter the following careers:

• Mechanical Engineer

• Design Engineer

• Fabricator

• Draughts man

• Boiler maker

• Material scientist

Learning Material

All textbooks are provided by the college and they remain a property of the college throught out and after the duration of the course lever for which they were issued for.