| Functions and Duties |
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| To achieve its objectives, theta must carry out a range of functions and
duties. Its operations will be focused on: |
- performing its statutory obligations, and
- providing excellent, responsive skills development services to the
industry sector in general and its constituent employers and employees in
particular.
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| To do this, theta will: |
- develop sector skills plans in the framework of the national skills
development strategy;
- develop annual business plans and budgets to regulate its operations;
- implement its sector skills plans by establishing learnerships,
approving workplace skills plans, allocating grants to employers,
providers and workers, and
- monitoring education and training provision;
- promote learnerships and register learnership agreements;
- perform the functions of an Education and Training Quality Assurance
body;
- receive or collect skills development levies and disburse them in
terms of the Act;
- report to the director-general on its operations and achievements;
- co-operate with the National Skills Authority and other SETAs on
skills development policy and strategy, and on inter-sectoral education
and training provision;
- co-operate with employment services and education bodies to improve
information about employment opportunities;
- appoint staff necessary for the performance of its functions; and
- promote and facilitate education and training provision for small,
micro and medium enterprises and their employees in the sector.
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