{"id":265303,"date":"2018-08-16T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T05:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=265303"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:12:06","slug":"heres-what-will-be-included-on-sas-new-name-and-shame-list-for-cv-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/265303\/heres-what-will-be-included-on-sas-new-name-and-shame-list-for-cv-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what will be included on SA&#8217;s new &#8216;name and shame&#8217; list for CV fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill has been published for public comment.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the biggest addition of the new bill is the introduction of a &#8216;register&#8217; of fraudulent qualifications which would contain the names and details of individuals and providers who had been found by a court of law to be holding or issuing at least one fraudulent qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Mooted as early as 2016, it is proposed that the register would then periodically be made available to the public to act as a deterrent for those considering misrepresenting their qualifications in the future.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bill, &#8216;a fraudulent qualification or part-qualification&#8217; includes a degree, diploma or certificate that is forged, fraudulently obtained or awarded in contravention of this Act, and has been declared as such by a court of law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details included<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If after verification or evaluation a qualification is found to be a misrepresented one, the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) must refer such a finding or information to the relevant professional body, and must record in the register the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name of the holder of the qualification or part-qualification;<\/li>\n<li>Description of the document concerned;<\/li>\n<li>Status or reclassification of the document to be recognised as a qualification at a lower level on the NQF;<\/li>\n<li>Nature of the offence and sentence on receipt of details from the relevant clerk of the court;<\/li>\n<li>Name of the education institution, foreign institution or skills development provider who issued the qualification or part-qualification;<\/li>\n<li>Details of a degree, diploma or certificate mill;<\/li>\n<li>Date of confirmed misrepresentation by the SAQA or date of a finding by a court of law;<\/li>\n<li>Any other relevant information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to being included on this register, the bill states that any person\u00a0who fraudulently claims to have received a qualification is guilty of an offence, and is liable on conviction to any sentence which may be imposed for an offence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can find more information about the bill <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/B20-2018_National_Qualifications_Framework.pdf?utm_campaign=request-for-comment-from-parliament&amp;utm_source=transactional&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/256291\/this-is-what-the-perfect-cv-looks-like-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is what the perfect CV looks like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being included on the register, South Africans caught lying about their qualifications could face a steep fine or even imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-265303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265303"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265347,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265303\/revisions\/265347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}