Bachelor of Agriculture

Apply educational knowledge, skills, principles and methods to apply management skills to most management and production subjects within agriculture and practice the management profession in agriculture. Emphasis is placed on the managerial issues relating to agriculture as well as awareness of the complexity of sustainability within the agricultural environment

• In business and industry
• Responding to the needs of the community
• In the public sector
• In the trade unions
• In life-long learning and the appreciation of the value of education and society.

Qualifiers will demonstrate knowledge, skills and applied competence in the field of study that provide opportunities for continued personal growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.

- Learners who register for this qualification can

• Learn from predominantly written material
• Communicate what they have learnt comprehensively in the medium of instruction
• Learn and take responsibility for their own progress
• Recognition of prior learning

The qualification recognises formal and non-formal prior learning (incorporating experiential learning) at a Further Education and Training Certificate Level 4 or a functional equivalent

The planned combination of learning outcomes are integrated with critical cross-field outcomes for this Qualification

Practical Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to achieve the major Skills/Applied Competency of the qualification.

Foundational Competency

The demonstrated understanding, by the Learner, of the embedded knowledge that underpins the end result/outcome.

Reflective Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to integrate or connect our performances and to reflect on, evaluate and adopt the above competencies.

To successfully complete the certificate the learner will have to demonstrate his/her learning via module specific learning outcomes as well as critical cross-field learning outcomes.

Module specific outcomes will include capabilities relating to module knowledge and the understanding thereof within specific context, and capabilities relating to integrated knowledge and skills from a variety of disciplines within the field.

Critical cross-field outcomes will include those specified in the learning outcomes for approved modules in the certificate and as appropriate to the learner's field of practice.

1. Managing any agricultural field or doing extension work in most fields of the management of agriculture.
2. Evaluating the management factors influencing the sustainability of agricultural practices.
3. Interpreting basic results presented in tables and graphs.

The learner will be able to

1. Analyse agricultural management financial statements and make recommendations.
2. Communicate with the labour force and negotiate with people in the marketing sector.
3. Set a strategic plan for any agricultural business.
4. Identify and interpret the multidisciplinary factors which dictate the sustainability of an agricultural practice.
5. Transfer knowledge and technologies whilst acting as an extensionist.

A learner should provide evidence of learning competency (knowledge, skills and attitude) by means of the following

1. The learner must provide evidence by means of written and oral examinations and seminars that competency; knowledge and skills have been mastered in the modules required for this qualifications.
2. The learner must provide evidence indicating the ability to evaluate and plan specific economical and technological projects.
3. Such projects shall be conducted under close supervision and be subject to the set standards required from this qualification.

Integrated assessment

Competence is achieved, through continuous assessment by demonstrating the ability to achieve the outcomes of the Qualification

• Test
• Assignments
• Practicals
• Final examination
• This will be supported by a module credit system, followed by a final exam on the modules for which credit was not obtained.
• Assessment documents are moderated to ensure:
• They conform to the scope and context of the competency as stipulated in the qualification
• They are constructed in such a way that the Assessor assesses the critical outcomes applied, during the learners activity performance, towards achieving an outcome.
• Assessments are:
• To include confirmation of the Embedded knowledge component to ensure that the Foundational Competency is achieved
• To be verified by Internal Verifiers to ensure valid, credible, true and fair results