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PSET Dialogue: Credential Transparency Description Language
Author: Karel
Published: Mar 13, 2023

The PSET CLOUD team recently hosted a webinar as part of the PSET CLOUD International Support Network, featuring guest speakers Scott Cheney and Deborah Everhart from Credential Engine. During the webinar, they provided insights into the distinctions between credentials and qualifications, as well as their efforts to support government systems at both the state and federal levels.

Why is professional networking important for your career?
Author: Karel
Published: Feb 21, 2023

Apart from your education and experience, establishing a professional network of diverse stakeholders is often at the core of a successful career. The PSET CLOUD team offers you some advice on how to expand your professional network in four easy steps.

What makes you more employable as a young start-out?
Author: Karel
Published: Feb 02, 2023

It’s incredibly tough for young people to enter the job market. Whether you have just left school or graduated from an institution here’s how you can make yourself more employable when starting out.

Call for expression of interest: The development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the PSET CLOUD
Author: Karel
Published: Dec 15, 2022

JET Education Services (JET) & the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA) will be issuing a solicitation for the The development of a Minimum Viable Product for the PSET CLOUD in the week of the 2nd - 9th January 2023. JET and the merSETA are requesting expressions of interest (EOIs) from eligible and qualified firms. The development of the MVP is expected to run from February to June 2023.

The PSET CLOUD DigiTrans 2022 conference report
Author: Karel
Published: Oct 21, 2022

Work and learning in South Africa, very distant friends in a post-apartheid South Africa, are beginning to shake hands with the introduction of the Post-School Education and Training Collaboration and Learning Opportunities and Utilisation of Data (PSET CLOUD) project.

Call for Proposals: Appointment of a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to fulfil communication and marketing responsibilities in accordance with the given scope
Author: Karel
Published: Sep 26, 2022

Advocacy for the PSET CLOUD requires a substantial amount of collaborations, changing of perceptions, public interaction and engagement. Public relations and visibility of the PSET CLOUD, its stakeholders and their programmes is therefore central to realising the vision of an interoperable data system. The purpose of this TOR is to obtain the services of a service provider to fulfil communication and marketing responsibilities in accordance with the given scope.

Call for Proposals: The development of a foundational taxonomy, coding schema and opportunities matching framework for MVP2 of the PSET CLOUD
Author: Karel
Published: Jul 27, 2022

JET Education Services (JET), in collaboration with the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA), has initiated the PSET CLOUD (Post School Education and Training Collaboration and Learning Opportunities and Utilisation of Data), a programme that seeks to develop an integrated national digital ecosystem which is interoperable, can be used for effective skills planning and provisioning, and puts information in the hands of citizens and other stakeholders so they can make informed decisions about education and training.

mzansi.citizensdatamatter
Author: Karel
Published: Jun 13, 2022

Reclaiming self-sovereignty for all South African citizens’ data by 2030

Digital Governance Advisory Note
Author: Karel
Published: Dec 01, 2021

As we look towards the realisation of the PSET CLOUD vision by 2024, we present this governance note written by Paul West and Christopher Beukes which discusses and offers recommendations on the institutional form and governance considerations for the establishment of the PSET CLOUD as an entity.

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