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FAQ's for Umalusi
- Our school has been confirmed as an accreditation candidate. What next?
- Our school was visited by Umalusi. Will we be visited again?
- Why should our school be evaluated by neighbouring schools?
- How experienced and qualified are Umalusi’ site evaluators?
- Is it necessary to participate in an Umalusi site visit?
- Is Umalusi doing anything about what may be called monitoring overload?
- We believe we comply - our desktop evaluation report says otherwise.
- When should we normally expect?
- Can a combined school get different accreditation decisions?
- Can a well-established school be granted provisional accreditation with conditions?
- What is an improvement plan?
- Are narratives sufficient to support compliance?
- How do ensure compliance with the criteria?
- Is it important to document internal policies?
- How do Umalusi monitor policies and procedures?
- Using generic policies to support accreditation criteria
- Can an education consultant compile monitoring reports?
- Reservations about evaluators seeing confidential documents
- Who evaluates our monitoring reports?
- Umalusi’s compliance requirements.
- How much do we have to pay for the administration of the monitoring reports?
- We are a combined school - do we have to complete one or two reports?
- Why are we expected to pay a fee every time we submit a monitoring report?
- Small schools
- Shouldn’t Umalusi focus on the monitoring and evaluation of public schools?
- Is it necessary to submit annual monitoring reports?
- What action is taken against unaccredited schools?
- Why the delayed full accreditation roll out?
- Is there any independent school that is fully accredited by Umalusi?
- Does Umlausi publish the list of schools which are accredited?
- What to do if your school’s provisional accreditation period has lapsed.
- What if we fail to submit a monitoring report?
- What will happen to schools with provisional accreditation candidates as of 2008?
- How will schools with provisional accreditation be affected by the changes?
- What will happen to schools who do not submit their annual monitoring reports?
- What was/is the motivation for these changes?
- I don’t understand the accreditation changes
- We are accredited by Umalusi but do not fall within its quality assurance scope.
- Our school offers a foreign/international curriculum.
- Are pre-schools required to apply for accreditation?
- Accreditation for pre-primary and high school?
- Do home schools have to be accredited by Umalusi?
- We are in the process of establishing a school. Do we start with accreditation or registration?
- Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
- Copies of external examination results for the Senior Certificate
- What are age exemptions?
- When do Umalusi help with transcript verifications?
- Which Qualifications Do Umalusi Verify?
- Why haven’t I received a certificate?
- Can I combine two results statements?
- Verification before 1992
- Do investigation officers with serious cases also need to pay for verification?
- Does Umalusi have a branch in another province?
- Can Umalusi print combination results?
- Why do clients have to pay for verification?
- Is there aconfirmation letter that I can get if I have had lost my senior certificate?
- Can I register with Umalusi for supplementary exams?
- Can Umalusi provide me with a bursary or a loan when I finish grade12?
- From which year does Umalusi verify certificates?
- Does Umalusi verify N4 –N6 Certificates?
- Which certificates does Umalusi verify?
- Evaluating foreign qualifications
- Changing surname on senior certificate.
- Can I get a new certificate with improved symbols?
- Writing senior certificate subjects in more than one examination.
- Where can I get another copy of my matric certificate?
- What if Senior Certificate was issued with incorrect personal information?
- What is conditional exemption?
- How many higher grades subjects to get a matric endorsement?
- What is a subject certificate?
- Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
- Payments to Umalusi
- How do I obtain an age exemption?
- Scholarships in the US
- My senior certificate was issued with my mother’s surname. Can I get a new certificate with my father’s surname?
- I wrote my examination outside South Africa, can Umalusi issue me with an equivalent certificate?
- How many higher grades subjects should a student study in order to get a matric endorsement?
- What should one do if his/her Senior Certificate was issued with incorrect personal information?
- Which certificates does Umalusi verify?
- Does Umalusi verify N4 –N6 Certificates?
- From which year does Umalusi verify certificates?
- Can Umalusi provide me with a bursary or a loan when I finish grade12?
- Can I register with Umalusi for supplementary exams?
- Is there a confirmation letter that I can get if I have had lost my senior certificate?
- Why do clients have to pay for verification?
- Since Umalusi prints senior certificates, why can’t they do combination of previous matric results issued in different sittings?
- Does Umalusi have a branch in another province?
- Do investigation officers with serious cases also need to pay for verification?
- What happens if you do not verify some of the certificates which had already been paid for, due to the fact that they were issued before 1992?
- Is it possible to combine two statements of results written in different years in order to obtain a senior certificate?
- Can you advice me how to obtain a tax certificate?
- Can you help me verify qualifications?
- I have improved some of my subjects. Can I get a new certificate with improved symbols?
- What should I do if I wrote senior certificate subjects in more than one examination?
- What is conditional exemption?
- I have lost my matric certificate. Where can I get another copy?
- What is a subject certificate?
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