Facilities Management is the process that creates and continuously optimises the productive usage of physical, operational and living spaces and services for its intended purposes. Facilities Management is about ensuring working and living spaces that maximise working and living experiences and return on investment. Prudent property owners realise that facilities management is a strategic tool that provides a platform for optimum operations and living.
Facilities Management Certificate (FMC)
Course Brief
Course Structure
All modules are on NQF Level 5 and are compulsory to complete. There are no elective modules.
CEA is provisionally registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (the Department) until 31 December 2025 as a private higher education institution under the Act. Registration certificate No.2022HE07/004.
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FAQs
In terms of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) Framework for Delegated, Functions, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) have the quality authority to ensure their Short, Learning Programmes (SLPs) and the certification is thus also SAQA compliant.
Yes, the courses offered by CEA are qualifications. They are registered in terms of the Council for Higher Education guidelines.
No education institution determines which qualifications any professional body considers for credits when receiving an application for registration/accreditation in a specific category. You have to approach the institution from which you seek registration/accreditation and request them to consider your qualifications/credits for registration/accreditation.
The fee includes all lectures, all the study material, the test and assignment evaluation and the certification.
Our programmes are stand-alone learning units/packages. Our objective is to provide delegates with a meaningful body of knowledge that can be utilised in practice after the completion of a programme. The programmes are not structured to be “building blocks” for other qualifications. It is a practical career-enhancing learning experience. However, HR Practitioners and other interested parties can assess the “learning weight” of the programmes and acknowledge that when assessing the knowledge standing of an applicant or employee.
Your company has to go through the normal Skills Development Planning, claims, etc. as required by your relevant SETA. The CEA Short Courses are offered in collaboration with HEIs/universities that have duly registered the courses with the Council for Higher Education (CHE). CEA has been presenting courses in collaboration with HEIs for more than a decade and employers have always followed the SETA route without problems. However, we are not in control of decision-making at the SETA but are not aware of any constraints.
When an institution/university offers training it should be done on a certain NQF level, carrying a specific amount of credits, expressed as notional hours. One notional hour is ten learning hours. THUS, 16 credits represent 160 learning hours. The NQF level is determined by the training/education provider when offering training/education and conforms to the national Department of Education/NQF system for levels and credits. It is a universal scale used by all industries and all institutions in SA. NQF level 6 is on the university B-degree level.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points are not determined by the Department of Education and the systems used are not universal. The most important aspect is that EACH professional body for each profession decides for itself how it wants to structure its CPD requirements. Some may require 30 points a year and others 100 points per year. These requirements do not “speak” to each other as each body is at liberty to require and structure their CPD points according to their own preference. They decide the numbers and the values attached to options acceptable for earning CPD points for their profession. CEA cannot answer this question regarding how many CPD points can be earned. Only the institution from which you want to earn the CPD points (which are then logged into their database for each person) can advise what they will award, for say, a course presented by a university on NQF level 6: 16 Credits. THUS, send the promotional information regarding the CEA Short Courses to the relevant institutions to award the CPD points; CEA cannot decide on their behalf what they should accept and what value system they should use. It differs for different professions.
The courses require that candidates have matriculated. Applicants that do not hold a matric certificate may also apply and request to be allowed on strength of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Thus experience-based.
Every institution or organisation in the world (also South Africa) decides individually what education and training from anywhere in the world are acceptable to them. No “country” as a whole has a “blanket” acceptance policy, not even automatic acceptance of SA matriculants for university study. Each body applies its own criteria and accepts what they see fit. However, a certificate, diploma, degree, etc which are issued by a registered HEI/university will obviously enjoy more favourable evaluation.
