Career Choices

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Career field It is a grouping of occupations. People who are employed in a career field do have

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the same interest and talents.

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In a career field you get different levels of education and training.

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Education career field: You will have primary and secondary school teachers

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sports coach

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Head of Departments

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Hospitality and tourism career field: bar tender

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baker

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operator

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ticket agent or hotel receptionist

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Occupation The work that you do. It requires special training and skills. You get money for

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completing a task e.g. architects for drawing plans. Artist for a design

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Career The occupation (work) you have for a large part of your life. You can get promoted

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in a occupation like from engineer to chief engineer or from educator to HOD.

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Job The work you do and you get paid for. You will need basic training for a job like to

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be a taxi driver

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gardener or shop assistan

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Requirements for National Curriculum Statement (NCS)

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 The National Curriculum Statement (NCS) is the policy on curriculum and assessment at school.

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 It explains what you should learn.

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 It allows you to move from school to work or higher education(to study)

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NB!!!!!!

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Very important

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work! Pay

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attention

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Requirements for the National Senior Certificate (NSC)

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 You need to study for 3 years (grades 10

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 You need at least 6 subjects of 2hich 3 are compulsory and 3 you select.

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 Not all schools offer all the subjects e.g. agriculture and technical subjects are offered by specific

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schools that do have the equipment to do so

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 To progress from one grade to the next you need the following:

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 one official language at Home Language level at 40%

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 • two other subjects at 40% (subjects not specified)

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 • three subjects at 30% (subjects not specified)

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Various subjects and career options

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 The NCS guides you on how to make subject choice. It uses the NQF (National Qualification

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framework to help you to choose subjects that you need for a career fields. Like maths

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science

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and biology to go into the Medical field.

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 For you to obtain a NCS certificate at the end of grade 12 you need to take 4 compulsory

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subjects and 3 optional (choice) subjects All together you need 7 subjects for a NCS certificate

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at the end of grade 12