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Why Choose Damelin? | |
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Vision and Mission Accreditation Employer Credibility Advantages of Damelin Correspondence Career Counselling & Development Service Admission Requirements - Recognition of Prior Learning Learners with Disabilities & Tape Aids Summary of turnaround times |
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| Vision and Mission | ||
| Damelin Correspondence College offers programmes of high quality that are recognized by business and provide learners with opportunities for obtaining qualifications and advancing in their careers. | ||
| Accreditation | ||
| Damelin Correspondence College is Provisionally
Accredited with UMALUSI, which is the Council for General and Further
Education and Training Quality Assurance (GENFETQA). The Provisional
Accreditation number for Damelin Correspondence College is FET 00475
PA. Employers are required to quote this number in their claims to
the Skills Levy Fund, for investing in their employee's education
as set out in the Skills Development Act No 31, 2003. Damelin Correspondence College is committed to ensuring compliance to criteria set by regulatory bodies. |
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| Employer Credibility | ||
| Today’s job market is highly competitive, particularly for young people seeking to land their first job, where they rely almost exclusively on the qualification they obtained. It is common for the distinction between such candidates to rest on the perceived quality of the institution through whom they have studied. With over 40 years of preparing students for employment and 30 campuses around the country, every employer knows and respects the calibre of Damelin graduates. | ||
| Advantages of Damelin Correspondence | ||
Studying by correspondence has several advantages over the attendance of classes at a campus. Students: • can register at any time of the year |
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| Career Counselling & Development Service | ||
| Students are encouraged to contact the Call Centre at Damelin for referral to the Career Counsellor. The free educational counselling service of Damelin is available by telephone, email or appointment. Students are welcome to contact the Career Counsellor, if they are in need of assistance in terms of career choice, additional academic support (study skills, assignment and pre-exam techniques, life skills, time management, coping with stress etc...) or in need of job searching skills. | ||
| Admission Requirements - Recognition of Prior Learning | ||
| The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) policy of recognition of prior learning is applied to this programme. Therefore, should learners not meet the admission requirements as described in the brochure, they should contact Damelin Correspondence College to evaluate their prior learning and experience to decide if they can gain entrance to the course of their choice. | ||
| Learners with Disabilities & Tape Aids | ||
| Damelin seeks to provide learners with disabilities an opportunity to participate fully within the College. Learners are given the opportunity at enrolment to disclose their disabilities and to indicate whether they require special support and/or examination arrangements. Students are welcome to contact a Student Consultant at Damelin, who will be able to provide information about the assistance available. Learners with disabilities are also invited to discuss their particular individual needs with the Career Counsellor, who can assist with personal, academic and career choices. Students who experience difficulty studying from printed material for one reason or another, are encouraged to contact Navi Chetty at the Education Desk of Tape Aids for the Blind, to accommodate transferring printed material to audio cassette. Telephone: (031) 309 4800 | ||
| Summary of turnaround times | ||
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Study material: The college will dispatch all study material that a student is entitled to within 21 working days of the date of registration (the date on which a student signs an enrolment contract with the college). Please note that students who pay in instalments are usually not eligible to receive all their study material upfront, but will receive the material in batches throughout their studies. Exam eligibility letters: Exam eligibility letters will be sent to students at least 2 months before the start of an exam session. Exam confirmation letters: Exam confirmation letters will be sent to students at least 4 weeks before the start of an exam session. Exam eligibility letters will only be sent via e-mail, and will not be posted or faxed. All students must ensure that they access their college e-mail address regularly. Release of exam results: Exam results will be released within 10 weeks of the end of the exam session. Exam results will not be released to students whose accounts are in arrears. Cancellation requests: Cancellation requests will be processed within 4 weeks of receipt of the request. Payment of student refunds - cancellations: Refunds related to cancellations will be paid within 90 days of the approval of the cancellation. Payment of student refunds – non-cancellations: Refunds not related to cancellations will be paid within 4 weeks of the approval of the refund. Awards: Awards for examinable courses will be issued within 8 weeks of the release of exam results. Awards for non-examinable courses will be issued within 8 weeks of passing the final assignment. Awards will not be released to students whose accounts are in arrears. Assignment results: Assignment results will be released via SMS within 22 working days of receipt of assignment Assignment returns: Marked assignments will returned to students within 25 working days of receipt of assignment. Dial-a-tutor queries: Students will be contacted by a tutor within 3 working days of the receipt of a query. Course transfer requests: All requests for course transfers will be processed within 4 weeks of receipt of the request to transfer. |
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