What Is a Skills Programme?
A skills programme is a set or cluster of unit standards gathered or combined to form a short programme bearing credits on Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) .
Why Skills Programmes?
The skills programmes are often implemented to meet the needs of the employer to enhance employees’ knowledge for a particular skill. Skills programme can culminate into a qualification when an interested learner continues to pursue the completion of the remaining unit standards. Training is offered by an accredited provider.
At the end of the training learners receive a Statement of Results. Like the Learnerships, skills programmes are implemented by employers for both employed and unemployed learners
In 2023, NobleProg and its ecosystem of partners introduced four Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) accredited skills programs. The programme consists of four skills programmes with 30 credits each. As per accreditation rules, the duration of each programme is three work months i.e. 60 days. Training is through blended online self-paced and instructor-led delivered remotely or onsite with a formal pass/fail assessment at completion of each skills program.
Upon completing training with NobleProg and having sat for associated assessment, delegates are encouraged to independently sit for industry examinations administered by various examining bodies.
NobleProg shall work with Delegates pre-selected by your organisation. If required, NobleProg can administer an online aptitude benchmark test, which aims to gauge potential delegates’ chances of mastering the taught material. This, however, should be used as a guide and not a selection criterion.
Front-end Development Skills Program
- Level: Foundation
- Duration: 480 hours
- Credits: 30
- NQL Level: 5
- Class size: Minimum 10 – Maximum 20 Delegates
- Course Objective: To train Delegates as Junior Web-Development and Support
This skills programme trains delegates in front-end development, focusing on application and tools used to develop websites. This is prefaced by an introduction to Fundamentals of computing and business process management to give context. The following courses form the foundation phase which has 30 credits completed over 60 days in a blended self-paced and instructor-led delivery training.
| CompTIA Fundamentals |
| Introduction to Business Process Management |
| Hypertext Markup Language – HTML5 |
| Cascading Style Sheet – CC4 |
| Java Script |
| Angular 15 Fundamentals |
| jQuery Fundamentals |
| Bootstrap |
| Hypertext Processor -PHP for Web Development |
| Web Application Security |
| Agile Essentials |
Upon successful completion of this skills programme, will have adequate knowledge to sit for industry examination.
Pre-requisites: There are no pre-requisites for this training, except sitting for the pre-selection test administered by your organisation or NobleProg.
Core back-end Development Skills Program
- Level: Core
- Duration: 480 hours
- Credits: 30
- NQL Level: 5
- Class size: Minimum 10 – Maximum 20 Delegates
- Course Objective: To train Delegates to be reach Intermediate level of proficiency in the chosen programing language.
This skills programme introduces Delegates to Software Development. There are five programming languages from which one has to be chosen. Test automation and how to write secure code, forms part of this skills program. About 70% of training duration is dedicated to mastering the chosen programming language.
| Introduction to Programming |
| Python Programming |
| Java Programming |
| Introduction to R Programming |
| Programming in C# with Visual Studio |
| C++ 11 Programing |
| Test Automation with Selenium |
| How to write secure code |
Upon successful completion of this skills programme will have adequate knowledge to sit for industry examination in the chosen programming language.
Pre-requisites: Successful completion of the Foundation skills program presented above or prior knowledge in software development.
DevOps Skills Program
- Level: Core
- Duration: 480 hours
- Credits: 30
- NQL Level: 5
- Class size: Minimum 10 – Maximum 20 Delegates
- Course Objective: To enable DevOps engineers with ability to understand and apply the principles and mindset behind DevOps.
This skills programme introduces Delegates to DevOps mindset and practices, then reviews tools frequently used within DevOps and finally Delegates learn how to formulate proper security strategy to manage DevOps security.
| Introduction to DevOps |
| DevOps Lifecycle |
| Version control with Git |
| Continuous Integration |
| Automated Deployment |
| Infrastructure as Code |
| Containerization with Docker |
| Monitoring and Logging |
| Security in DevOps |
| Summary and Conclusion |
Upon successful completion of this skills programme will have adequate knowledge to sit for DASA examination.
Pre-requisites: Experience in Software Development and working knowledge of Agile methodologies
Data Science Skills Program
- Level: Core
- Duration: 480 hours
- Credits: 30
- NQL Level: 5
- Class size: Minimum 10 – Maximum 20 Delegates
- Course Objective: This skills programme trains delegates on critical skills necessary for Data Science. It introduces foundational skills of Data analysis, Visualisation and Database management. Cloud computing and Machine Learning form the capstone of this skills programme.
| Introduction to DevOps |
| Python Programming |
| Microsoft Power BI |
| Tableau |
| Database Management |
| Cloud Computing |
| Machine Learning |
Pre-requisites:
- First year University level Statistics and Mathematics
- Proficiency in Microsoft advanced excel
- Understanding of structured query language [SQL]
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