The GISc SGB is actively working
towards the establishment of Unit standards and GISc Qualifications for
the South African industry. Also in the pipelins is a GISc Learnership
that will help the industry to address the demographic imbalances. Read
more about this from the following Article by Gaby van Wyk and Chris
Vlok.
Qualifications provide a framework of learnig for new entrants in the
market, but at the same time they also offer existing practitioners to
measure themselves against the rest of the industry. This external link
offers a first glimpse at what the GISc qualifications are going to be
like.
Unit standards form the basic building blocks of the Qualifications.
The US matrix gives a summary of the development to date. The different
lists include the actual unit standard documents as well as offering an
indication of where each is in the process.